AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Seagrass Cruise 2 Gulf St Vincent  1993

This was the second research expedition for the Seagrass cruises.  The expedition was conducted in Investigator Strait, Gulf St Vincent and Backstairs Passage, South Australia, in April 1993.  
The research vessel used was the Ngerin, owned by the South Australian Department of Fisheries.

Tags: Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, air_pressure, air_temperature, depth, potential_density, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature, speed_of_sound_in_sea_water, wind_from_direction, wind_speed
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Slocum glider deployment in Western Australia off Pilbara (September - October 2013)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and biological parameters like for example dissolved oxygen and turbidity data measured by a Slocum glider in the region off Pilbara (Western Australia).
The Ocean Gliders Facility (formerly known as the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)), manages Slocum gliders to be deployed on the continental shelf.
The variables available in this dataset are:
Temperature, salinity, conductivity, density, pressure, chromophoric dissolved oxygen matter, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence and backscatter coefficient at 660nm.

Tags: CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM), Countries | Australia, Fluorometers, Glider, IMOS Node | Bluewater and Climate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Fluorescence, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Slocum Glider, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia, concentration_of_coloured_dissolved_organic_matter, fluorescence_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_oxygen_in_sea_water, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_pressure, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature, volumetric_backscatter_coefficient
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Effect of recreational scallop fisheries in southeast Tasmania waters

Dive surveys using strip transects are used to determine species composition, size structure and abundance of scallops, with surveys conducted pre- and/or post fishing season.
In addition, post season telephone surveys of recreational scallop dive licence-holders are conducted to collect information about scallop diving activity (including days fished, location and success), and a range of management-related issues (eg. attitudes to management options, communication strategies).

Tags: 23 270005, 23 270006, 23 270007, Equichlamys bifrons, Gonad condition, Mimachlamys asperrima, Pecten fumatus, Scallop species composition, Shell length, Weight
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Chemosensory tracking of scent trails by the planktonic shrimp, Acetes sibogae australis, Townsville, north Queensland

Acetes sibogae australis, a planktonic sergestid shrimp was collected at night with light traps suspended about 2 m deep in the harbour off Townsville, north Queensland, as well as in shallow water off the nearby beach and transferred to aquaria at the Australian Institute of Marine Science.Experiments were conducted in unaerated aquaria (15 x 22 x 60 cm) and water was changed every 2 days. Each aquarium was illuminated from both sides, by fluorescent light and the backs and bottoms of the tanks were painted black to make the transparent shrimps more visible. The front pane was marked at 5 cm intervals to estimate swimming speed and distance. Between 8 and 12 shrimps were placed in each aquaria and they were fed on Artemia, prior to commencement of experiments.During experiments, diced banana prawns (Penaeus merguiensis) or freshly killed and crushed Acetes, soaked in fluorescein dye were dropped into the aquariums and left to sink to the bottom, leaving thin trails of highly visible dye in the water. The movement patterns and swimming speed of the shrimps in response to the presence of trails was recorded. Additional experiments were carried out using meat and meat extract. Sensitivity to these food odours was also monitored over the time that individuals were exposed to the scent trails.The sensitivity of Acetes sibogae australis to specific chemical stimuli also was tested with pieces of blotting paper soaked in saturated solutions of 17 different L-amino acids.The importance of vision in following trails was tested by providing undyed meat and undyed blotting paper soaked in millipore filtered prawn juice as food stimuli. To determine whether Acetes sibogae australis generally swims downward when following a vertical trail or if they follow a chemical gradient, dyed meat tied to a string near one side of the aquarium was lowered and then slowly pulled it up near the opposite side and the response of the shrimps recorded.Experiments were also carried out to determine the anatomical location of the chemoreceptors on the shrimp. The role of the antennules was investigated by testing the behavioural response of shrimp to dyed stimuli, 18 hours after their antennules were excised. Other possible receptor sites, such as the setae in antennae were identified after ultrastructure analysis.
 This research was undertaken to investigate the importance of chemosensitivity to planktonic animals. Using the planktonic sergestid shrimp, Acetes sibogae australis, experiments were conducted to examine behavioural responses to scent trails and the precision with which this species can follow these trails.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - National Mooring Network - New South Wales (NSW) Port Hacking 25m Water Sampling Site

The NSW Port Hacking 25m water sampling site (IMOS site code: PH025) is one of four water sampling sites at Port Hacking.  The site is at Latitude:-34.082, Longitude:151.18.
One of the IMOS National Reference Stations (NRS) is located in Port Hacking (PH100) and water sampling is conducted each month as part of the NRS regime. To supplement the NRS water sampling in New South Wales, identical water sampling is conducted at three other sites in Port Hacking.
The full list of water sampling sites in Port Hacking is:
PH025
PH050
PH100
PH125

Tags: Biosphere | Microbiota | Plankton, Buoys | Moored Buoys, CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Current Meters/Profilers | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), Fluorometers, IMOS Site | PH025 | Port Hacking 25m water sampling site, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Alkalinity, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Carbon Dioxide, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Inorganic Carbon, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nutrients, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Fluorescence, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Habitats and Biodiversity Assessment, Western Flank, Oceanic Shoals MPA, 2017, Western Australia (ConocoPhillips)

Towed Video transects + Digital StillsStereo BRUVSMultibeamCTD
 This biological survey will provide targeted benthic habitat and fish biodiversity information for six key areas associated with a) potential pipeline routes b) potential sensitive receptor habitats outside the Oceanic Shoals Commonwealth Marine Protected Area c) potential sensitive receptor habitats within the Oceanic Shoals Commonwealth Marine Protected Area. The biological survey will use standardised methods so that data collected can be referenced to, and compared with, other survey data collected on this shelf by AIMS, ConocoPhillips and Geoscience Australia.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Saline Wastewater Outfall Pipeline (SWOP) infaunal monitoring program near 90 Mile Beach, Victoria

This data was collected to assess the impact of a saline wastewater discharge outlet from a power station that commenced discharging in mid 1983. Infaunal samples were collected from an impacted location (McGaurans Beach) and 2 control locations at Woodside Beach at depths of 3 to 15m. There were five sites within each location and each site was sampled annually from 1982 to 1986. This sampling covered 15km of coastline near 90 Mile Beach and lay within the stretch of coastline covered by the Latrobe Valley Ocean Outfall (LVOO) program.

Tags: Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat | soft sediments, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Community Structure, Biosphere | Zoology | Invertebrates | infauna, Human Dimensions | Environmental Impacts | wastewater discharge, Ninety Mile Beach, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Victoria
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - 3.1.2 - Review of Transport Processes

A common feature of many coastal systems is the presence of large and complex bottom roughness (or canopies) on the seafloor that are formed by a wide range of different marine communities, including seagrasses, coral reef organisms and mangroves. These canopies impose substantial drag forces on the coastal flows generated by waves and currents, resulting in substantial modifications to the mean and turbulent flow structure adjacent to the seafloor. As a consequence, the transport of both natural and dredging-derived sediments (which are closely coupled to the hydrodynamics), including rates of sediment deposition and suspension, can be dramatically altered in these environments.
Presently, mechanistic models of sediment transport in the presence of submerged canopies are severely lacking, with only a limited number of mostly qualitative studies providing any insight into these dynamics. New observations of sediment transport within environments such as coral reefs and seagrass meadows are thus critically needed to 1) provide the missing quantitative insight needed to better understand these processes
2) incorporate these dynamics into new predictive sediment transport formulations applicable to these environments, and 
3) finally embed these dynamics in process-based numerical models that can eventually be applied by coastal engineers to enable predictions. Without this fundamental information, it is, for example, presently impossible to predict the fate and impact of sediment dredging plumes on these often sensitive environments with any degree of confidence.
In this review we summarize the current state of knowledge and gaps in the various components required to predict sediment transport in coral reef and vegetated canopies, including:
• The hydrodynamic interactions of currents and waves with submerged canopies, including the influence on bed stresses (Section 2)
• The traditional approaches and models used to predict nearbed sediment transport in the coastal ocean (Section 3)
• Existing observations of sediment transport within aquatic vegetation and over coral reefs (Section 4)
• Measurement techniques and challenges for quantifying and monitoring nearbed sediment fluxes (Section 5), and
• Prospects for upscaling these dynamics with numerical models to improve predictions of the transport and fate of natural and dredging-derived sediments in these environments (Section 6)

Tags: Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat, Coral reef, Dredging, Hydrodynamics, Numerical models, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Sediment Transport, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Plants, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Turbidity, Sediment transport
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Deep Water Moorings - Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) Sub-Facility, Pulse 10 Mooring (May 2013 - Oct 2013)

The Pulse 10 mooring was deployed from 7 May 2013 to 13 October 2013 at Lat -46.94, Lon 142.28. Data are now available in netCDF format.
Moored instruments are deployed by the Southern Ocean Time Series sub-facility for time-series observations of physical, biological, and chemical properties, in the Sub-Antarctic Zone southwest of Tasmania, with twice-yearly servicing. 
These time-series observations are crucial to resolving ecosystem processes that affect carbon cycling, ocean productivity and marine responses to climate variability and change, ocean acidification and other stresses.

Tags: Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean, IMOS Facility | Deep Water Moorings, IMOS Platform | PULSE10 | Pulse 10 Mooring, Oceans | Marine Biology, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Heat Budget, Oceans | Ocean Temperature, Oceans | Ocean Waves, Oceans | Ocean Winds, Solid Earth | Geochemistry | Biogeochemistry, acceleration, tension, voltage
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Soil characteristics and nutrient status in a mangrove forest at Hinchinbrook Island, north Queensland

Soil characteristics and nutrient status were monitored monthly, over the period April 1979 to June 1980, at 9 sites along a 370 m vegetated transect between Coral Creek and Priest Creek, Hinchinbrook Island. The elevation of the sites ranged between 0 and 1.4 m (Australian High Datum). Tree species composition and canopy height varied along the transect.At the beginning of the study, basic soil properties along the transect were determined. Particle size analyses over the size range 2 µm to 2 mm were performed on 10 cm lengths of single cores collected using a 1 m long and 6 cm diameter stainless steel sediment corer at sites 2, 5 and 9. The amount of organic material in the size ranges  250 µm was also calculated. Bulk density measurements for all 9 sites were made from duplicate core samples of 40 cm length. Analysis of total C, N and P, were carried out on duplicate 5 cm lengths of core section, collected from the surface and at 95 cm depth from all 9 sites.Monthly soil samples were collected at all 9 sites using a 1 m long, 6 cm diameter corer with PVC slides at 5 cm intervals, which could be removed to allow sampling. Redox potentials were measured by immediate insertion of a Pt/SCE combination electrode into the soil. The measured potentials were corrected to EH (vs. hydrogen electrode reference) by addition of +244 mV to the reading. The pH was measured by direct insertion of a glass electrode through the port into the soil. Interstitial salinities were measured using a chloride selective electrode and SCE reference lightly touched upon the soil surface exposed at any given port. Soil subsamples were taken at 10 cm intervals from each core, (10 samples per core), by insertion of open-ended polythene tubes through the ports. The tubes were then quickly sealed with septum caps and immediately stored in ice until analysis. Analyses for extractable nitrogen (ammonium, nitrate + nitrite) and phosphorus were carried out in the laboratory within 2-3 days after collection.Crude estimates of above ground biomass for 5 m sectors of the transect were calculated using previously collected transect data. Litter fall was monitored monthly for 12 catchers (6 pairs) placed near the sampling sites.
 This study was undertaken to investigate whether variations in soil redox potential, pH, salinity and extractable ("available") nitrogen and phosphorus occurred with time and elevation within the tidal zone, for a mangrove forest in North Queensland.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Securing WAs Marine Futures Project - Overall summary

Securing WAs Marine Futures was an NHT II state-wide project, which has mapped marine habitats and biodiversity at eight study locations from the Abrolhos Islands to the Recherche Archipelago near Esperance.  It was a partnership between Natural Resource Management (NRM) regional councils, the Australian and West Australian Governments, the University of Western Australia and Fugro.  In addition to collecting this benchmark information on our marine assets, the project also examined the relationships between organisms and their habitats, and has developed recommendations on potential indicators and methods to track changes in the marine environment.  Areas covered include: Abrolhos Islands, Jurien Bay, Rottnest Island, Cape Naturaliste / Geographe Bay, Broke Inlet, Mt Gardner, Point Ann, Middle Island
Data link - https://data.tropicaldatahub.org/aims/Marine%20Futures/

Tags: Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat, Oceans | Bathymetry | Seafloor Topography, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Habitat, Radiance Or Imagery | Visible Wavelengths | Visible Imagery
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Mercator Ocean GLORYS2V4 Reanalysis - Forcing dataset (for MARVL)

GLORYS produces and distributes global ocean reanalyses at eddy-permitting (1/4°) resolution that aim to describe the mean and time-varying state of the ocean circulation, including a part of the mesoscale eddy field, over recent past decades with a focus on the period since when satellite altimetry measurements of sea level provide reliable information on ocean eddies (i.e. from 1993 to present).
This is purely a description of the forcing dataset used within the MARine Virtual Laboratory (MARVL).

Tags: Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, Oceans | Sea Surface Height | Sea Surface Height
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Heron Island Sensor Float 3

A round 1.4m yellow buoy has been deployed in the Heron Island lagoon as part of the sensor network infrastructure at Heron Island in the southern Great Barrier Reef off Gladstone, Australia. The buoy is configured as a sensor-float with a Campbell Scientific logger, a spread-spectrum radio for communicating with the on-reef wireless network, a GPS and initially a surface mounted (30cm under the water surface) thermistor.The float is moored in the lagoon of Heron Island in around 3m of water and will be used to monitor the flow of water through the lagoon. It will be fitted with surface salinity and bottom depth and temperature in late 2008. The unit will be serviced every six months and will be used in the future for attaching new sets of sensors. The buoy is re-locatable and the GPS data should be used to find the current location.
 The buoy is one of five re-locatable platforms in the lagoon at Heron Island onto which sensor will be located. The buoys initially have a Campbell Scientific loggers powered off two 5W solar panels, a Garmin GPS unit and one thermistor located at the base of the buoy around 30cm below the water line. The buoys use a Campbell Scientific spread-spectrum radio to talk back to the base station located on Heron Island.
 Power SupplyBattery Backed (1 x 33Ahr AGM with Solar Regulator), 2 x 5W Solar Panel Supply.Logger Settings - Pakbus Address - 173Logger Setup as node (isRouter = False)CSDC7 comms board rate set at 34KSDC7 Neighbours range: 1- 1, 130-130, 140-140SCD7 beacon = 21600Over-Reef RF Network - RF411 attached to the CSIO port of the loggerRadio Settings - Active Interface - Datalogger CSDCSDC Address 7Protocol: Pakbus awareRadio Net Address - 0Hop Sequence - 0Power mode - less than 2mA 1 SecondRetry level - Low

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) - Quality Assessment and Control Report - Remote Access Sampler: Sample Analysis, Phytoplankton Analysis

This report details the quality control procedures applied to the data from samples collected by the Remote Access water Sampler (McLane RAS 500) deployed on the SOTS and Pulse moorings between 2009 and 2019. The quality controlled datasets are publicly available via the AODN Data Portal. This report should be consulted when using the data. 
The Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) Observatory located at 140°E and 47°S provides high temporal resolution observations in sub-Antarctic waters. It is focused on the sub-Antarctic Zone because waters formed at the surface in this region slide under warmer subtropical and tropical waters, carrying CO2 and heat into the deep ocean, where it is out of contact with the atmosphere. This process also supplies oxygen for deep ocean ecosystems, and exports nutrients that fuel ~70% of global ocean primary production. This region is also the boundary between the nutrient rich waters of the Southern Ocean and the oligotrophic subtropical gyres to the north. These processes are sensitive to climate change, but the probable nature and impacts are not yet known.

Tags: Southern Ocean Time Series Observatory Sub-Facility, Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
WAMSI Node 4.2.4 - Demersal fish assemblage sampling method comparison and power analyses - Abrolhos

The sub-tropical Houtman Abrolhos Islands and associated reefs are located approximately 60 km offshore from the mid-west coast of Western Australia on the edge of the continental shelf between 28˚15’S and 29˚S. The Houtman Abrolhos comprise three main island groups that span approximately 100 km in a north-south direction. From south to north they are the Pelsaert, Easter and Wallabi groups. 
From late May to early June 2007, stereo-video surveys were conducted at three sites within each island group). This data was used with data from Ningaloo and Abrolhos regions in a larger study that compared the assemblage composition, relative abundance and size of fishes sampled using Baited remote underwater stereo-video (stereo BRUV) and Diver-operated stereo-video systems (stereo DOV).

Tags: Oceans | Marine Biology | Fish, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Habitat, Radiance Or Imagery | Visible Wavelengths | Visible Imagery
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
The Helix Experiment: Helix Reef physical oceanography, Great Barrier Reef

Two oceanographic moorings were deployed at distances of 2.5 km to the NE and NW of Helix Reef. Two current meters were deployed on each mooring, placed approximately 15 and 46 metres below the surface. Currents were recorded between October 1983 and March 1984, encompassing the Australian summer coral spawning period. Currents were resolved into seasonal drift, low frequency (wind-forced), and diurnal (tidal) bands. Two tide gauges were deployed on opposite ends of Helix Reef over the same time period and were oriented (generally) upstream-downstream to detect phase eddies.
 This study was undertaken to provide data to enable modelling of the hydrodynamic regime around Helix Reef as part of a joint study of the dispersal and recruitment patterns of coral larvae (The Helix Experiment).
 The bathymetry data used in the model was provided by the Australian Survey Office.For further details of the study of dispersal and recruitment, see the metadata record "The Helix Experiment: Dispersal and recruitment patterns in Great Barrier Reef corals".

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network