AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Summary of Analyses undertaken on debris recovered during the search for flight MH370

On 8 March 2014, the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft registered as Malaysia Airlines 9M-MRO and operating as flight MH370 (MH370) disappeared from air traffic control radar after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on a scheduled passenger service to Beijing, China with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board.

After analysis of satellite data it was discovered that MH370 continued to fly for over six hours after contact was lost. All the available data indicates the aircraft entered the sea close to a long but narrow arc of the southern Indian Ocean.

On 31 March 2014, following an extensive sea and air search, the Malaysian Government accepted the Australian Government’s offer to take the lead in the search and recovery operation in the southern Indian Ocean in support of the Malaysian accident investigation.

On behalf of Australia, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) coordinated and led the search operations for MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean. Geoscience Australia provided advice, expertise and support to the ATSB in sea floor mapping (bathymetric survey) and the underwater search. GA has also provided quarantine facilities for receipt of possible debris, and has undertaken laboratory analyses for a number of these pieces. This record is a collation of reports describing quarantine procedures and parts analysis undertaken by Geoscience Australia for some of the debris recovered and processed through Geoscience Australia laboratories during the search for flight MH370.

Tags: Published_External, ecology, geochemistry, marine, sedimentology
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Lower Cretaceous foraminifera from Phillips - Sunray Buckabie No. 1 well, Queensland

Phillips-Sunray Buckabie No.1 Well, situated 29 miles north of Quilpie, SW Queensland and was drilled to the depth of 9,070 feet. This report covers the examination of cuttings from 80 feet down to 3,310 feet which was considered to be the base of the marine Lower Cretaceous section. Core 1 at 1,123' 8-1,136' 6, core 3 at 3,264' - 3,264' 6 and core 8 at 5,518' - 5,537 were also examined. From the study of the lithology and of the first appearance of certain foraminiferal species and of Inoceramus prisms in the downward sequence, a fairly complete section of the Lower Cretaceous sequence in this south-western part of the Great Artesian Basin in Queensland has been determined.

Tags: AU-QLD, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Record, palaeontology
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Structure and hydrocarbon potential of the Bremer Basin, southwest Australia

The Bremer Basin underlies part of the upper continental slope of offshore southwest Australia.  It occupies an area of 9000 km2, and contains a sedimentary pile probably 10 km thick in water depths of 200-3000 m. Though not tested by drilling, the basin is covered by a grid of seismic data. By analogy with the Eyre Sub-basin to the east, the Bremer Basin probably contains Late Jurassic to Barremian continental deposits overlain by Albian and Late Cretaceous marine deposits with a veneer of Tertiary open-marine carbonates of variable thickness.  The Bremer Basin formed during the period of continental extension that preceded the breakup of Australia and Antarctica in the mid-Cretaceous. However, Triassic (?and older) extension and spreading events in the Perth Basin, a short distance to the west, are likely to have influenced its evolution. Basement structural trends in the basin indicate an old east-west-trending (?Palaeozoic) fabric that has been overprinted by north-northwesterly oriented Jurassic-Cretaceous extension and wrenching.  The resultant structure is complex, particularly where the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic trends intersect.  The hydrocarbon potential of the Bremer Basin is currently unknown.  However, by analogy with the Eyre Sub-basin, potential source and reservoir sections can be inferred to exist, although the presence of a regional seal and a heatflow regime adequate for the generation of hydrocarbons is less certain. Potential trapping mechanisms for hydrocarbons include wrench-induced anticlines, clastic aprons adjacent to boundary and transfer faults, and stratigraphic traps within dipping Neocomian rocks beneath a major angular unconformity.

Tags: Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Journal, NSW, Published_External, SA, TAS, VIC, WA
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Pre-cruise Report - Prydz Bay - MacRobertson Shelf and Kerguelen Plateau, February-April 1995 : AGSO Cruise 149, R.V. Aurora Australis

This record describes the background, aims and methods to be employed in the second AGSO/Antarctic Co-operative Research Centre/ANARE marine geoscience program in Prydz Bay and the Mac. Robertson Shelf. The cruise program consists of activities aimed at understanding modern sedimentary processes on the Antarctic margin, understanding the Plio-Pleistocene environmental history of the region and obtaining samples from the Kerguelen Plateau to illuminate the history of watermass reorganisation in the Southern Ocean during Quaternary. Climate change episodes.

The cruise will address goals set by the Antarctic CRC Natural Variability (sediments) sub-program, which are to promote a better understanding of global climate change by providing statements of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean palaeoenvironments over the following time intervals:

(A)0-10,000 years (post-glacial warming)

(B)0-160,000 years (last glacial cycle)

(C) 0-5,000,000 years (Pliocene "warming" of Antarctica)

These goals will be achieved by studying the Antarctic and Southern Ocean sedimentary record for evidence of Antarctic ice sheet and Southern Ocean circulation changes.

The development of accurate predictive models of climate change requires an understanding of the behaviour and interaction of components of global climate systems. The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is one such major component so that the study of its behaviour during past climatic fluctuations should provide key guidelines for climatic modelling. Sediments deposited in Prydz Bay contain a record of icesheet fluctuations because this area is located at the downstream end of the largest outlet glacier flowing from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, the Lambert Glacier-Amery Ice shelf.

Another major component of the global climate system is the Southern Ocean. Water masses of the Southern Ocean play a pivotal role in world climate by absorbing, transporting and releasing heat and by transferring oxygen, nutrients and CO2 to and from the deep ocean. In

this context, the Kerguelen Plateau has accumulated sedimentary sequences that will contain records of how the polar front and its associated water masses have varied between glacial and interglacial periods.

The three geographical features targeted for study during the cruise are: (A) the trough-mouth fan deposits adjacent to Prydz Bay; (B)sediment traps associated with deep, shelf-basins on the Mac. Robertson Shelf; and (C) depositional basins on the Kerguelen Plateau. In the following sections the existing data bases for these areas are discussed and the objectives for the 1995 cruise of Aurora Australis are presented.

Tags: AQ, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Record, marine, marine survey
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
The Native Vegetation of Yengo and Parr Reserves and Surrounds, 2008. VIS_ID 3845

"The Native Vegetation of Yengo and Parr Reserves and Surrounds. Vegetation Communities of Yengo National Park, Parr State Conservation Area and Comleroy State Forest and adjoining private land and inholdings. Derived from Aerial Photographic Interpretation with communities defined using survey and statistical analysis. The project offers a revision of the vegetation classification and mapping studies of "Sanders et al. 1988 and Bell et al. 1993." (VIS_ID 1852)

Tags: TEC, Vegetation
Organization: NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Sedimentation of the George V Continental Shelf, East Antarctica

Climatically controlled glaciological and oceanogrphic environmental changes off the George V Coast during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene have been recontructed from changes in sedimentation processes. The evolution of a sediment drift deposit located deep in the deep trough on the shelf has been assessed using a sedimentological approach.

Tags: AQ, Antarctic data, Earth Sciences, External Publication, Published_External, Scientific Journal Paper, marine
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Lower Carboniferous spores from the Bonaparte Gulf Basin, Western Australia and Northern Territory

Well preserved assemblages of plant microfossils have been recovered from Lower Carboniferous sediments - principally or entirely marine in origin and Visean in age encountered in four boreholes in the landward Bonaparte Gulf Basin of Western Australia and Northern Territory. The sediments are representative of the following lithostratigraphic units: Bonaparte Beds (upper portion) and overlying Tanmurra Formation (intersected by Bonaparte Nos 1 and 2 Wells, central basinal province of Bonaparte Gulf Basin, Western Australia); Milligans Beds (Spirit Hill No. 1 Well; Spirit Hill and Milligans No. 1 Bores, all located in the southeastern platform region of the basin, Northern Territory) and overlying Burvill Beds (basal portion) of Milligans No. 1 only. The 55 species of plant microfossils recognized are distributed among 32 genera of trilete sporae dispersae, including one new genus, Exallospora, which is instituted for the reception of distally annulate cingulate forms having typically verrucate sculptural elevations. Twenty-two species are referable (six tentatively so) to previously established taxa. The palynological flora is dominated by the pan-Australian, Famennian to ?mid-Carboniferous species Granulatisporites frustulentus Balme, Hassell (emended herein), which accounts for 44-83 percent of the spore populations. Certain (inevitably subordinate) spore forms, either the same as or closely similar to species known from northern hemisphere Lower Carboniferous sediments, lend confirmation to the Visean age previously adduced from the contained fauna.

Tags: AU-NT, AU-WA, Bulletin, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, marine, palaeontology
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
State Heritage Register - Centroids

A point dataset maintained by the Department Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) on behalf of the Heritage Council of NSW. The data applies to a listing on the State Heritage Register under the Heritage Act, 1977 and applies to a place, building, work, relic, moveable object, precinct, or land. The data is available in ESRI shapefile (.shp) format.

Organization: NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Water Modelling-Stochastic Climate Data-Greater Sydney-Silo Station (vi of xi) ID 068001-068020

The stochastic climate data include 10,000 replicates of 130-yr daily data sets of rainfall and potential evapotranspiration generated using observed data sets without and with combined climate data. This work has been undertaken by researchers at the University of Newcastle and used in modelling for Greater Sydney Water Strategy.

This particular Asset (068001-068020) houses Silo Station IDs:
<ul>
<li>068002 - AVON DAM</li>
<li>068003 - BERRY MASONIC VILLAGE</li>
<li>068007 - CAMDEN (BROWNLOW HILL)</li>
<li>068008 - BUNDANOON (BALLYMENA)</li>
<li>068009 - BURRAWANG (RANGE STREET)</li>
<li>068013 - MENANGLE</li>
<li>068016 - CATARACT DAM</li>
<li>068018 - CORDEAUX NO.1 DAM</li>
</ul>



Note: If you would like to ask a question, make any suggestions, or tell us how you are using this dataset, please visit the <a href="https://water-hub.seed.nsw.gov.au/thread/search">NSW Water Hub which has an online forum</a> you can join.

Tags: Climate Change perturbed, Climate Data, DCCEEW - Water, DCCEEW - Water Analytics, Observed Climate, Stochastic Climate, Water-Modelling, modelling
Organization: NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
NSW Marine Protected Areas

This layer provides a geographic interpretation of Marine Park and Aquatic Reserve boundaries in NSW as described in the NSW Marine Estate Management (Management Rules) Regulation 1999 and NSW Government Gazette (Aquatic Reserves). Polygons and associated data are identical to those submitted to the DoE for the CAPAD 2018.

Tags: Boundaries, Environmental Protection, Oceans, Wildlife and Habitat
Organization: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD)
Water Modelling-Stochastic Climate Data-Greater Sydney-Silo Station (i of xi) ID 061001-063000

The stochastic climate data include 10,000 replicates of 130-yr daily data sets of rainfall and potential evapotranspiration generated using observed data sets without and with combined climate data. This work has been undertaken by researchers at the University of Newcastle and used in modelling for Greater Sydney Water Strategy.

This particular Asset (061001-063000) houses Silo Station IDs:
<ul>
<li>061030 - HOWES VALLEY (KINDARUN)</li>
<li>061119 - WISEMANS FERRY (OLD PO)</li>
<li>061164 - LAGUNA (MURRAYS RUN)</li>
<li>061211 - COLO HEIGHTS (MOUNTAIN PINES)</li>
<li>061215 - RYLSTONE (KELGOOLA)</li>
<li>061217 - ST ALBANS (ESPIE ST)</li>
<li>061309 - MILBRODALE (HILLSDALE)</li>
<li>061334 - GLEN ALICE</li>
<li>061351 - PEATS RIDGE (WARATAH ROAD)</li>
<li>062029 - ILFORD (TARA)</li>
</ul>



Note: If you would like to ask a question, make any suggestions, or tell us how you are using this dataset, please visit the <a href="https://water-hub.seed.nsw.gov.au/thread/search">NSW Water Hub which has an online forum</a> you can join.

Tags: Climate Change perturbed, Climate Data, DCCEEW - Water, DCCEEW - Water Analytics, Observed Climate, Stochastic Climate, Water-Modelling, modelling
Organization: NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Water Modelling-Modelled Data-Annual Permitted Take (APT)-Macquarie

Annual permitted take (APT) is a critical component of sustainable resource management, balancing the need for water resource utilisation with the preservation of ecosystems. It is a crucial mechanism for ensuring the long-term annual sustainable diversion limits (SDLs) set under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan are not exceeded, and that enough water is available for the environment. APT is the maximum amount of water permitted to be taken for consumptive purposes each year, and has been enforced since July 2019

A method for determining APT is part of each water resource plans (WRPs) developed by the Basin states under the Commonwealth Water Act 2007. When the method is applied over the Basin Plan reference period (1895–2009), the annual APT must be equal to or less than SDL.

An APT model is a major component of the APT calculation method. It is used to calculate the APT that would be expected in a year, given that year’s water availability and climatic conditions. APT is calculated at the end of each year and compared to actual take in that year, with the difference added to a public register of take. SDL compliance is tracked using the cumulative difference (from water year 2019–20).

APT models are configured using estimates of the river management and development (public and private infrastructure) conditions in a river system across the water resource plan period. These estimates include:

• irrigated crop area and planting decisions

• water entitlement holders’ distribution and use patterns

• how storages are operated to supply water for consumption and the environment.

Tags: DCCEEW - Water, DCCEEW - Water Analytics, modelling, surface water
Organization: NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Greater Taree LGA Vegetation 2006. VIS_ID 3911

Greater Taree LGA Vegetation mapping.  A revision of existing vegetation maps undertaken in 1997? Aerial photograph interpretation of the vegetation of the Greater Taree City Council Area using a classification system suitable for koala habitat determination. API conducted by Paul McDonald. VIS_ID 3911

Tags: Vegetation
Organization: NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
NSW Priority Oyster Aquaculture Areas

Oyster aquaculture areas are areas of NSW estuaries assessed
for edible oyster aquaculture. These areas were categorised by
assessment of all current, former and potential leases in relation
to their location, environmental and socio-economic criteria and
within the boundaries developed in co-operation with all
relevant State government agencies, neighboring communities
and the oyster industry. The areas are categorized as priority
oyster aquaculture areas, terminating current lease area, current
leases within the national parks estate and lease area under
Merimbula Airport jurisdiction

Tags: Aquaculture, Fisheries
Organization: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD)
Greater Hunter Native Vegetation Mapping v4.0. VIS ID 3855

This dataset was superseded by the State Vegetation Type Map (https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/nsw-state-vegetation-type-map) on 24.06.2022.

Please note, Greater Hunter Native Vegetation Mapping v4.0. VIS ID 3855 web service and zipped dataset will be archived and will no longer be available on line after 31st March 2025.

The GHM geodatabase builds on a wealth of information and previous mapping from the Hunter region. Existing field data, mapping, classification and remote sensing interpretation were augmented with new survey data to produce the vegetation community classification used in this project. The classification used a series of well documented analyses as well as expert review to achieve its end-point.
The GHM geodatabase contains two principal vegetation layers. The GHM Vegetation Type layer and the Canopy Cover (v2) layer (individual tree crowns or clumps of tree crowns). The GHM also contains field plot localities, associated species information and plot-specific photographs. Data specific to each polygon (e.g. crown cover) and to each native vegetation community type (e.g. common name, scientific name) are included. Polygons, the fundamental spatial units, are built from computer-based feature recognition which delineates landscapes patterns.
The GHM Vegetation Type map is built by attributing individual polygons with vegetation type from the GHM floristic classification through a multi-stage process. The process includes visual interpretation of SPOT 5 and ADS40 imagery as well as species distribution modelling and expert review.  The project included a review of existing mapping and classification and established equivalences between these and the GHM Classification. VIS ID 3855

Tags: PCT, Vegetation
Organization: NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Grab photos from CEAMARC voyage, 2007-2008

Seabed samples were collected from 52 sites across the George V continental shelf and slope during voyage 3 on the Aurora Australis, December 2007 - January 2008. Most samples were collected with a box corer (BC), though more gravelly sediments required a Smith-McIntyre (GRSM) or Van-Veen grab (GRVV) as indicated by the station name. Sediments were photographed on deck immediately following collection. This dataset contains these photos, labelled according to the station number, sample type and  sample number at that site. For locations and further information refer to Beaman, R.J., O'Brien, P.E., 2009. Collaborative East Antarctic Marine Census (CEAMARC): Post-Survey Report, RSV Aurora Australis Voyage 3, December 2007 - January 2008, Geoscience Australia, Record, 2009/05, 61 pp. (https://d28rz98at9flks.cloudfront.net/67381/Rec2009_005.pdf). Sediment data is available from the Marine Sediments Database (http://dbforms.ga.gov.au/pls/www/npm.mars.search). This dataset is published with the permission of the CEO, Geoscience Australia.

Tags: Earth Sciences, Published_External, marine, sediment
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Australia's Maritime Zones Edition 5

This map supersedes the Australia's Maritime Zones/Boundaries Map Edition 4, published in November 2013. Catalogue Number/GeoCat 69822.  

This map has been derived from Geoscience Australia's Australian Maritime Boundaries (AMB) 2014 data which is a digital representation of Australia's territorial sea baseline and the maritime limits and boundaries as established under the Sea and Submerged Lands Act 1973. 

On the 9 April 2008 the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf confirmed Australia's continental shelf limits. This edition shows those limits together with those areas yet to be resolved and the area off the Australian Antarctic Territory that Australia requested the commission not consider for the time being.

The map describes the different maritime zones, explains how Australia defines and updates its maritime boundaries, and lists the different maritime boundary arrangements with Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, France (New Calendonia and Kerguelen) and New Zealand.  It shows the extent of Australia's maritime boundaries, stretching from Heard and McDonald Islands in the west to Norfolk Island in the east, and from the Torres Strait and Arafura Sea in the north to the Australian Antarctic Territory in the south.

This map can be downloaded from the Web in PDF format.

Coverage: Australia
Currency: 2014 (web map)
Coordinates: Geographical
Projection: Bonne with 134E longitude and 30S at projection centre
Medium: Web delivery

Tags: Administrative Boundary, Earth Sciences, Marine Jurisdiction, Published_External, Thematic Map, marine
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Correlation chart for the Carboniferous system of Australia

A brief synopsis of the evidence from the Carboniferous marine faunas of Australia has been used to draw a correlation chart for the Carboniferous System in the continent. The Lower Carboniferous faunal sequence of the intracratonic basins of Western Australia is represented by the conodont and brachiopod zones established for the Bonaparte Gulf Basin. These are dated mainly in terms of biostratigraphic scales based on conodonts, foraminifers, and brachiopods established in the Lower Carboniferous of Britain and Belgium, i.e., mainly the Kohlenkalk facies. The Carboniferous brachiopod zones of the New England GeosyncIine, recognizable only in eastern Australia, are dated in terms of the ammonoid and conodont zones of the German Lower Carboniferous, i.e., the Kulm facies. Hence, in so far as it is possible to correlate the Kulm with the Kohlenkalk facies in western Europe, it is possible to make generalized correlations throughout the marine Carboniferous of the Australian continent. Correlation of terrestrial sequences in Australia, and between them and those overseas, is based on plant and spore evidence. The sporadic nature of this evidence, however, renders such correlation highly tentative.

Tags: AU, Bulletin, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, geology, stratigraphy
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data