AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Spencer Gulf Threatened, Endangered & Protected Species (TEPS) diet

Data from 2003-2012 on the diet of Australian sea lions, New Zealand fur seals, and little penguins in the Spencer Gulf, South Australia.

Tags: Arctocephalus forsteri, Australian sea lion, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Food-web Dynamics, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Trophic Dynamics, DNA Sequencers, Diet, Eudyptula minor, Field Surveys, Global/Oceans | Southern Ocean/ Australia extension, Hand Sampling (specimens and/or tissue samples), Little penguins, Marine Features (Australia) | Spencer Gulf, SA, Neophoca cinerea, New Zealand fur seal, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Birds, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Mammals, taxonomic_group_count, weight
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Temperature - Salinity distributions / CTD data within Jervis Bay and out across the shelf: 1989

This dataset is a component of the 'Jervis Bay Baseline Studies' project conducted by the Department of Defence, CSIRO and the Australian Defence Force Academy. 
Approximately once per month between 1988-1991, temperature-salinity surveys were conducted within Jervis Bay and out across the continental shelf. Measurements were made using a Neil Brown 'Smart' CTD. On each day of sampling, ~10 stations were chosen across the shelf, with the CTD recorder measuring salinity, temperature and sigma-T through the water column.
This record describes CTD data collected in 1989. For each day of sampling three resources are provided: 1) A text document providing details of sampling locations, as well as a CTD summary collected from each of the stations every 4-10 metres down the water column, 2) A map showing the location of each sampling station and, 3) An excel file providing the raw CTD data collected.
This is one of nine child records that relate to the parent, 13391430-2ae8-11dd-a735-00188b4c0af8. A pdf outlining the structure and hierarchy of all metadata records relating to this project is available to download through this record. Also available is a pdf of a published working paper documenting this experiment and the results.

Tags: Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Wind-driven Circulation, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, bearing, date, depth, distance, latitude, longitude, sea_water_density, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature, station_name, time
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Ichthys Gas Field Development - Cetacean Studies.

The aims of the cetacean studies are to assess the importance of the sheltered waters surrounding the Maret Islands and the deeper offshore waters to regional cetacean populations.
The objectives of the cetacean studies are to:
- Determine the distribution and abundance of cetaceans and other marine megafauna in areas potentially affected by the proposed development;
- Assess the importance of the development areas in regional terms to cetaceans and other marine megafauna; and 
- Identify any critical habitats for protected marine fauna in areas potentially affected by the proposed development. Studies have included aerial and boat based surveys over two years (2006 and 2007) and the deployment of acoustic loggers near Maret and Browse islands.

Tags: Cetaceans, Environmental Impact Assessment, Ichthys Gas Field Development, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Mammals
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Global Climatology and Atlantic Ocean Atlas

The WOCE Global Hydrographic Climatology WGHC (published as BSH Report 35, 2004) provides a consistent and coherent hydrographic gridded full depth data set on 45 depth levels with a 0.5° spatial resolution. High quality hydrographic observations from the WOCE one time and repeat hydrographic cruises with ca. 9000 stations for the period 1990 - 1998 are the modern basis. 
The reference observed data set, comprising WOCE and high quality cruises occupied after 1970 (a total of 19867 profiles distributed over 384 cruises) is used to quality control a historical data set of older cruises occupied mostly before 1970 and profiles not included in the high quality subset (a total of 1 039 668 profiles distributed over ca. 42 000 cruises). 
For the WGHC climatology the original profile data have been isopycnically averaged using optimal interpolation. Seven parameters subjected to a strict quality control are given: temperature, potential temperature, salinity, oxygen, silicate, nitrate, phosphate.

Tags: ATLANTIC OCEAN, Oceans | Bathymetry | Seafloor Topography, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Alkalinity, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Dissolved Gases, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Inorganic Carbon, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrite, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrogen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Organic Carbon, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, mass_concentration_of_nitrate_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_oxygen_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_phosphate_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_silicate_in_sea_water, nitrate, oil spill identification, oxygen, phosphate, potential_temperature, salinity, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature, silicate, temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Decomposition of mangrove leaf litter in Chunda Bay, north Queensland

Ageing yellow leaves, still attached to branches, but ready to abscise were collected from three mangrove species, Rhizophora stylosa, Avicennia marina and Ceriops tagal var. australis in Chunda Bay. Groups of leaves from each species were weighed and sewn into mesh bags of 2 mm² mesh size. Five leaf groups from each species were retained to derive fresh weight:dry weight:ash free dry weight (AFDW) conversion factors. The remaining bags were distributed in the field according to a combination of habitat (fully submerged in creek or mid-intertidal zone of forest) and site (two sites separated by 1 km of mangrove forest). For each species, 3 bags were removed on days 14, 40, 71, 112 and 156 of the study. Only leaves of Rhizophora and Ceriops from forest habitats remained after this time and were collected on day 348.In the laboratory, leaves from each bag, were rinsed, sieved and a subsample taken for analysis of bacterial densities. The remainder was dried, ground and subsamples were used to determine percent ash, percent carbon and nitrogen and percent soluble tannins.
 This field research was undertaken to:1. determine decay rates of leaf leaf litter due to bacterial action and leaching in the intertidal zone of mangrove forests and in the adjacent subtidal waters2. determine the nutritive value of different types of leaf detritus to consumers.
 This study is a component of a larger project to measure the inputs to mangrove detrital pools from a range of sources including turnover of litter by shredders and and the breakdown of wood.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Seaglider deployment in Victoria off Portland (May - August 2009)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and biological parameters like for example dissolved oxygen and turbidity data measured by a Seaglider in the region of Portland (Victoria).
The Ocean Gliders Facility (formerly known as the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)), located at the University of Western Australia manages Seagliders to monitor the boundary currents surroundings Australia.
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, Seaglider, States, Territories (Australia) | Victoria, 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
OSU Buoy Group: STORMS: NE Pacific (a joint OSU/SIO experiment in the NE Pacific)

Data from moorings that were in place for at least 6 months in deep water and include meteorological data, pressure records and temperature records gathered by the Oregon State University (OSU) Buoy Group over a span of more than 35 years. In addition, included are a number of electronic (i.e., browser-formatted) data reports.
This dataset relates to current meter records from the STORMS: NE Pacific (a joint OSU/SIO (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) experiment in the NE Pacific).
Other links available on this site will take you to the collection of data reports, an historical retrospective of the Buoy Group and instructions on how to download the data for the following:

Atlantic Ocean data
Pacific Ocean data
Indian Ocean data
Southern Ocean data 
Electronic data reports
History of the Group
How to use this disk


Tags: Buoy world ocean, Deep water mooring, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Pressure | Sea Level Pressure, Oceans | Ocean Pressure | Water Pressure, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, PACIFIC OCEAN, beam_attenuation_coefficient, direction_of_sea_water_velocity, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_pressure, sea_water_speed, sea_water_temperature, sea_water_u_velocity, sea_water_v_velocity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
ReefState model predictions

ReefState (version 3.0) utilises a Bayesian Network modelling framework to integrate lower-level submodels of future warming, coral damage, coral recovery, coral adaptation, and algal herbivory, into a continuous causal chain. The integrated model allows prediction of ecological endpoints that reflect important management concerns, namely coral cover and composition.
 The purpose of the ReefState model is to investigate the long-term implications on coral reef resilience of projected increases in the frequency and intensity of coral bleaching events. And more specifically, how successful management outcomes (viz. water quality, fishing pressure, and no take zones) might interact to benefit coral reefs during the period of climate warming that is expected in the coming decades.
 Details pertaining to the rationale, development and application of the individual submodels and integrating framework can be found within the refereed journal articles:Wooldridge S, Berkelmans R, Done TJ, Jones RN, Marshall P (2005). Precursors for resilience in coral communities in a warming climate: a belief network approach. Marine Ecology Progress Series 295:157-169.Wooldridge S, Done TJ (2004). Learning to predict large-scale coral bleaching from past events: A Bayesian approach using remotely sensed data, in-situ data, and environmental proxies. Coral Reefs 23: 96-108.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
SAIMOS - Biological and Flow Cytometry data collected from CTD stations in South Australia, in June 2009

Flow cytometry data was collected in June2009, in waters off South Australia. 
The general purpose of the study is to be able to establish background knowledge on the ecosystem on the continental shelf of South Australia and the impact of upwelling/saline outflow events on microbial communities to ultimately develop a biogeochemical model of the region. Sampling was carried out during cruises conducted on board the RV Ngerin as part of the Southern Australian Integrated Marine System (SAIMOS). During each cruise, the physical, chemical and biological properties of the chlorophyll fluorescence maximum (FM) layer were investigated. Flow cytometry data has been collected for picophytoplankton, bacteria and viruses.
Six main stations have been sampled over the course of the study, five are located on the 100 m isobath, i.e. RS (35.508S, 136.278E), B2 (35.418S, 136.148E), B3 (35.258S, 136.048E), B4 (35.168S, 135.418E) and B5 (35.008S, 135.198E), and one from an offshore station (B1; 36.188S, 136.178E) located southwest of Kangaroo Island. Note that combining the distances between stations (14–25 nautical miles), the average component of the current velocity at middepth along the shelf (0.01 m s21) and the average speed of the vessel (i.e. 9 knots) indicate that different water masses were sampled at each station. Additional samples have on occasion been collected from the National Reference Station (NRS) at Kangaroo Island (35.832S, 136.447E) and the SA Spencer Gulf Mouth Mooring (SAM8SG, 35.25S, 136.690E), where the saline outflow occurs.

Tags: Biosphere | Microbiota | Bacteria, Biosphere | Vegetation | Phytoplankton, IMOS Node | SA-IMOS | Southern Australian Integrated Marine Observing System, Niskin Bottles, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Inorganic Matter, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrogen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Organic Matter, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Phosphate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Silicate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Oceans | Ocean Winds | Surface Winds, Picophytoplankton, Virus, amount_of_bacteria_in_sea_water, amount_of_picophytoplankton_in_sea_water, amount_of_virus_in_sea_water, concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water, depth, depth_of_chlorophyll_maximum, latitude, longitude, mass_concentration_of_particulate_inorganic_matter_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_particulate_organic_matter_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_suspended_matter_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_nitrogen_in_ammonium_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_nitrogen_in_nitrate_and_nitrite_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_phosphorus_in_phosphate_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_silicate_in_sea_water, sea_surface_temperature, wind_from_direction, wind_speed
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Field studies of temporal patterns of feeding and emergence behaviour of crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) on Wheeler Reef, Great Barrier Reef

This research was undertaken to provide quantitative data on the proportions of Acanthaster planci feeding during the day and night.
Coral Reef - Condition, Crown of Thorns Starfish - Activity, Crown of Thorns Starfish - Condition,
Crown of Thorns Starfish - Diameter, Crown of Thorns Starfish - Outbreak Status, Food - Preference, Lifeform - Benthic, Percentage Cover, Relative Frequency, Substrate Type, Density - Population, Genus, Species
These data were used in Chapter 2 of the PHD Thesis, Keesing JK (1990) Feeding biology of the crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus). Ph.D Thesis, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, 197 pp.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Genetic Variation in Heat Tolerance of the Coral Platygyra Daedalea Indicates Potential for Adaptation to Ocean Warming

Platygyra daedalea from the Great Barrier Reef was assessed for heritability and genetic variation associated with heat tolerance.
Survival of ten quantitative genetic crosses of larvae produced form six parental colonies in a heat tolerance selection experiment.
Six colony fragments of Platygyra daedalea were collected from Esk Reef, an inshore reef in the central region of the Great Barrier Reef. Colonies were held in aquaria and spawned in November 2016. Eggs and sperm bundles were collected and combined to produce 10 family crosses. Larval survival during controlled heat stress exposure experiments were then conducted:

Six replicates of 20 larvae from each cross were randomly allocated to each of two temperature treatments: ambient temperature 27&deg;C or acute heat stress 35.5&deg;C. Mortality data were recorded every 12 hours for 10 days.

Survival under heat stress was modelled using a Kaplan Meier Survival Analysis and a Cox Proportional Hazards (CPH Survival under heat stress was modelled using a Kaplan Meier Survival Analysis and a Cox Proportional Hazards (CPH) model) model using the Survival package in R (Therneau and Grambsch, 2000)

A selection experiment to identify changes in allele frequency in response to acute heat exposure. Four replicates of 500 larvae per cross were allocated into 1L flow-through culture containers for a total of 2000 larvae in each of two temperature treatments (27&deg;C and 35.5&deg;C). At 53 hours, 100 larvae from each replicate were sampled (total 400), and preserved for genetic analysis.

Following genomic library preparation and sequence processing, the allele frequency analysis was evaluated as well as comparison of genotyped SNPs between crosses.
Full details of the survival in heat stress experiments and quantitative genetic analysis of variation in heat tolerance can be found in Elder et al., (2022).

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Deep Water Moorings - Deep Water Arrays (DA) Sub-facility, East Australian deep water array, East Australian Current 3 Mooring (EAC3) Platform

The EAC3 deep water mooring was deployed in April 2012 at (-27.26 S, 154.29 E) off the Queensland coast, near Brisbane, Australia. The mooring was recovered in August 2013 and the array decommissioned, and a newly configured array (with new moorings) was redeployed in May 2015, and then subsequently decommissioned in July 2022. 
Instrumentation on the mooring includes Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs): Long Ranger, Sentinel 300 and Quartermaster, Seabird SBE37SMPs, temperature loggers (Star Oddi, Starmon Mini) and discrete current meters (Aquadopp 6000).
The mooring will collect a time series of full-depth profiles of water velocity and discrete temperature and salinity measurements. 
The array will consist of 9 current meter and property moorings extending eastward from the Queensland Coastal Node shelf mooring array near Brisbane to the deep ocean. The moorings will be at 500-600 m intervals across the Continental Slope and increasing to 800-1000 m in the deep ocean.  
The East Australian Current (EAC) is the major western boundary current of the south Pacific Ocean. It plays a critical role in the ocean re-distribution of global heat from the equator to the midand- high latitudes. The EAC is relatively stable north of Brisbane, but as the current moves south 2-3 large eddies are pinched off every year. These eddies frequently move onto the continental shelf and close inshore and influence the local circulation patterns. At prominent coastal features the EAC moves away from the coast, driving upwelling which draws nutrient-rich water from a depth of 200-m or more.

Tags: Buoys | Moored Buoys, CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Current Meters/Profilers | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), IMOS Facility | Deep Water Moorings, IMOS Platform | EAC3 | East Australian Current 3 Mooring, Marine Features (Australia) | East Australian Current, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Temperature effects on the development and metamorphosis of larvae of broadcast spawning coral species from Japan and the Great Barrier Reef

In August 2004, an experiment was conducted to test the effects of temperature on larval development and metamorphosis for the solitary coral, Fungia repanda, collected from a patch reef slope in northern Okinawa, Japan. Three hours after fertilisation, the embryos from a single male and female colony cross were transferred into triplicate 2 litre plastic beakers, maintained in incubators set at 26, 28 and 30°C (±0.5°C).Larvae were sampled from each beaker on days 3 and 4 post-spawning and transferred to six-well cell culture plates (8-12 larvae per well, n = 3 wells) containing 10 ml of 1 µm filtered sea water (FSW) and a small (&lt;5 mm) chip of unidentified crustose coralline algae (CCA) to initiate metamorphosis. Culture wells containing coral larvae and CCA were maintained at the same temperatures as the larval cultures (±0.3°C). The percentage of larvae undergoing early metamorphosis was assessed at 12 h.In November 2007, a second experiment tested the effects of temperature on larval development and metamorphosis of Acropora millepora, Acropora spathulata and Symphyllia recta from Viper Reef on the Great Barrier Reef. Acropora millepora was sampled from the reef slope, while the other two species were collected from the upper reef flat. Three hours after fertilisation, 400 embryos from at least three colonies were transferred into three separate 1 litre polycarbonate bottles containing 700 ml FSW. The bottles containing the embryos were floated in triplicate computer-controlled flow-through aquaria at 26, 28, 30 and 32°C (±0.3°C) and 80 µmol quanta/m²/s (12:12 h light:dark cycle).Each day larvae were transferred from the floating containers into six-well plates (10-15 per well) containing 10 ml FSW. In total, 9 wells were used for each temperature treatment each day (3 wells of larvae from each water bath x 3 water baths for each temperature). A 5 mm x 5 mm x 3 mm chip of the CCA Neogoniolithon fosliei was added to each well to induce metamorphosis. The larvae were then transferred into incubators set to 26, 28, 30 and 32°C (±0.3°C). Early metamorphosis was assessed after 18 h.Larvae of Acropora millepora, Acropora spathulata and Symphyllia recta were also mass cultured at 28°C in 500 litre indoor flow-through aquaria 80 µmol quanta/m²/s (12:12 h light:dark cycle), to investigate the possible effects of temperature on metamorphosis (not development). Each day larvae were transferred from the cultures into six-well cell culture plates (10-15 larvae per well, n = 3 wells) containing 10 ml FSW. The larvae were then transferred into incubators set to 26, 28, 30 and 32°C (±0.3°C) and early metamorphosis assessed following the addition of small CCA chips.
 Laboratory experiments were conducted to determine the effects of temperature on the rate of attaining competence to settle and metamorphosis in azooxanthellate larvae of reef-building coral species.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array - Quality Control Report: April 2012 to August 2013

The East Australian Current (EAC) is a complex and highly energetic western boundary system in the south-western Pacific off eastern Australia. It provides both the western boundary of the South Pacific gyre and the linking element between the Pacific and the Indian Ocean gyres. The EAC deepwater moorings consisted of an array of full-depth current meter and property (CTD) moorings from the continental slope to the abyssal water off Brisbane (26oS).
This report details the quality control applied to the data collected from the EAC array (deployed from April, 2012 to August, 2013). The quality controlled datasets are publicly available via the AODN Portal. The data should be used in conjunction with this report.

Tags: Deep Water Arrays Sub-Facility, Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network