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IMOS - National Mooring Network - National Reference Station (NRS) Sub-Facility

The IMOS National Reference Station Sub-Facility (NRS) comprises of a series of national reference stations designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in Australian coastal ocean waters. The reference stations increase the number of long term time series observations available to researchers, both in terms of variables recorded, temporal distribution and geographical extent. Data is collected using moored sensors and in monthly water sampling field trips. 
As the project progresses NRS moorings will be fitted for telemetry and data will become available in real time from each of the NRS sites around Australia (currently only Darwin and Yongala).
There are 8 current NRS sites: Two in Queensland, one in the Northern Territory, one in Western Australia, one in Tasmania, one in New South Wales, one in South Australia and one in Victoria. There is one former site at Esperance, the mooring was retrieved in December 2013 and not redeployed; and one former site at Ningaloo Reef, with the mooring retrieved in August 2014 and not redeployed. Operation of the NRS sub-facility is distributed between several operators and is coordinated nationally.

Tags: Biosphere | Microbiota | Plankton, Buoys | Moored Buoys, CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Current Meters/Profilers | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), Fluorometers, IMOS Sub-Facility | ANMN-NRS | National Reference Stations, 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
Colour changes associated with moulting in the fiddler crab, Uca capricornis

The purpose of the experiment was to quantitatively examine the colour changes associated with moulting in the fiddler crab, Uca capricornis. Experiments were conducted in the East Point Reserve, Darwin between Nov - Jan (04/05 &amp; 05/06). 
Circular cages were constructed on the mud flat and characteristically marked crabs were introduced. In total 11 females and 10 males were photographed through at least one moult.
On average, U. capricornis grow 1.6mm with every moult. With every successive moult the carapace pattern contracts and becomes more distinct, especially in males. In addition to the considerable variation in pattern, both sexes also vary in the specific colour of their spots. Colour changes are associated with moulting and, as with pattern, tend to follow a certain progression.

Tags: 28 960036, Behavioural Ecology, Biosphere | Zoology | Crustaceans, Colour Pattern, Fiddler Crab, Moulting, Ocypodidae, Uca capricornis, carapace_width, claw_length, claw_side, crab_code, date
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Fast Repetition Rate Fluorometry (FRRF) data collected on the RV L'Astrolabe from 28/02/2004 to 04/03/2004 (Dumont d'Urville - Hobart)

These data were collected on the RV L'Astrolabe (platform code: FHZI) from 28/02/2004 to 04/03/2004 on a trip from Dumont D'Urville to Hobart.
Maximum photochemical efficiency of photosystem II (PSII), also called maximum quantum yield of PSII (Fv/Fm), has become one of the most widely utilized fluorescence parameters in phytoplankton research. It represents the potential photochemical efficiency, which is the probability that the light energy captured by the photosynthetic apparatus is being utilized as photochemistry. Fv/Fm has been shown to have an instant response to variations in physical and chemical properties and is interpreted as a diagnostic of the overall health or competence of phytoplankton. Together with the absorption cross section area of PSII and chlorophyll concentration, it can be used to measure primary production (Cheah et al. 2011, Deep Sea Research).
Seawater from 3 m depth was supplied continuously from the ship’s clean seawater line. FRR fluorescence yields were measured continuously at 1 minute intervals in dark-adapted state (! 15 minutes dark-adaptation) using a flash sequence consisting of a series of 100 subsaturation flashlets (1.1 μs flash duration and 2.8 μs interflash period) and a series of 20 relaxation flashlets (1.1 μs flash duration and 51.6 μs interflash period).

Tags: Continents | Antarctica, Countries | Australia, Fast Repetition Rate Fluorometer (FRRF), Global/Oceans | Southern Ocean, Instrument's photomultiplier electronic sensitivity (1-256), Latitude, Longitude, Maximum quantum yield (Fv/Fm), Minimum fluorescence in the light chamber of the FRRF (also used as a proxy for biomass), Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, Photosynthesis, connectivity between PSII reaction centres under actinic light, functional absorption cross section of PSII (measure of the proportion of light harvested for photoc, maximum fluorescence in the light chamber of the FRRF, maximum quantum yield of photosystem II ( (FmL - FoL) / FmL), primary production, time constant of electron transport from PSII to PSI, variable fluorescence (FmL - FoL)
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Coastalwatch: Coastal Condition Monitoring System - Burleigh Heads (High)

Since its launch in 1998, Coastalwatch has become Australia's most popular water sports website, and is consistently ranked in the top eight sporting websites. The site displays live vision from over 90 coastal locations around Australia and overseas. It also provides daily surf reports, swell forecasting, weather information and news; as well as video, photographic and editorial content. 
Coastalwatch has also developed a Coastal Conditions Monitoring System, which utilises the camera network to make a significant contribution to safer coastal use and more efficient and cost effective coastal management.  To this end, Coastalwatch has partnered with Surf Life Saving Australia and Surfing Australia; and supports Volunteer Rescue organisations, community groups, and charities such as SurfAid International and the Surfrider Foundation Australia.  
Coastalwatch is committed to bringing the coast to all Australians and overseas visitors, and becoming the premier reference site for all coastal user groups. With this in mind, Coastalwatch is dedicated to assisting with sound coastal zone research and management through the use of all its resources.

Tags: Oceans | Coastal Processes | Beaches, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Erosion, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Intertidal Zone, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Longshore Currents, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Shoreline Displacement, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Shorelines, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Tidal Height, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Frequency, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Height
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Challenger Expedition in the Herbert River mouth near the Jetty Grab Sampling 08 February 2004

The objective of the research reported in this thesis was to develop a technique to monitor the dynamics of sediments and nutrients entering the coastal ocean with river plumes associated with high intensity low frequency events (e.g. floods), using ocean colour remote sensing. The data collected included Nephelometer, Secchi disk and grab sample measurements.

Tags: Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sediment Grain Size, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Secchi Depth, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, depth, secchi disc depth, secchi_depth_of_sea_water, sediment, sediment_type, turbidity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Connectivity modelling identifies sources and sinks of coral recruitment within reef clusters

This study uses biophysical modelling to estimate coral larval connectivity estimates within the Moore Reef cluster, northern Great Barrier Reef, for the annual spawning events of Acropora corals in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
The software used to generete the data are OceanParcels, RECOM --- Relocatable Coastal Model  (https://research.csiro.au/ereefs/models/models-about/recom/) and 1 km grid resolution hydrodynamic model of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (https://research.csiro.au/ereefs/models/models-about/models-hydrodynamics}. Code for data generation and analysis are available at Zenodo Repository and are publicly accessible. Information on data collection and analysis can be found on the paper. 
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Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
A global ensemble of general and extreme wave climate statistics from global wave reanalysis and hindcasts

There are numerous global ocean wave reanalysis and hindcast products currently being distributed and used across different scientific fields. However, there is not a consistent dataset that can sample across all existing products based on a standardized framework developed by the Coordinated Ocean Wave Climate Project (COWCLIP) phase 2. Here, we present and describe the first coordinated multi-product ensemble of historical global wave climate available to date (COWCLIP2.1), comprising general and extreme statistics of significant wave height (H_s), mean wave period (T_m), and mean wave direction (θ_m) computed over 1980-2014, at different frequency resolutions (monthly, seasonally, and annually). This coordinated global ensemble has been derived from fourteen state-of-the-science global wave products obtained from different atmospheric reanalysis forcing and downscaling approaches. The data have been processed, under a specific framework for consistency and quality, following Data Reference Syntax, Directory Structures as well as Metadata from the WCRP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Technical skill analysis of the different available global wave products against long-term global satellite measurements is provided. This new comprehensive dataset provides support to future broad-scale analysis of historical wave climatology and variability as well as coastal risk and vulnerability assessments across offshore and coastal engineering applications.

Tags: mean wave direction, mean wave period, ocean, ocean wave hindcasts, ocean wave reanalysis, significant wave height, wave fields
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Management options to minimise formation of urchin barrens: site monitoring with webcam in North Bay, Tasmania

Webcam established at North Bay, Tasmania, early 2010 as a deterrent for poaching translocated lobsters. Webcam is sited on the southern end of the site facing north. Pictures are taken every 15 minutes and transmitted to a server where they can be accessed remotely by users. As at Novenber 2011, pictures are still being taken and archived.

Tags: Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Habitat, Sea state monitoring, Site monitoring, Weather monitoring
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Coastal biodiversity and primary production on marine park islands

Undertake fauna trapping and flora specimen collections on Faviourit Island and mainland coastal sites within Jurien Bay Marine Park and Faure Island and mainland coastal sites within Jurien Bay Marine Park and Faure Island and mainland coastal sites within Shark Bay Marine Park to obtain information on weight, sex and removal of hair samples, to research coastal biodiversity and impact of marine production subsides upon arid coastal environments.

Tags: Biodiversity, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Primary Production, Biosphere | Terrestrial Ecosystems | Islands, Fauna, Field Surveys | Biological Surveys, Flora, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Slocum glider deployment in Western Australia off the coast of Kimberley (July - August 2012)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and biological parameters including dissolved oxygen and turbidity data measured by a Slocum glider off the coast of Kimberley (Western Australia).
Slocum glider data from the oceans around Australia have been collected by the Ocean Gliders Facility (formerly known as the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)), since June 2008 and are ongoing. The data are obtained from an onboard suite of instruments which include Seabird-SBE41 CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth), WETLabs BBFL2SLO 3 parameter optical sensor (measuring Chlorophyll-a, CDOM and 700nm Backscatter) and an Aanderaa oxygen optode (measuring concentration of dissolved oxygen in seawater.

Tags: CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM), Countries | Australia, Fluorometers, 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, 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
Growth and development of the copepod Acrocalanus gibber from Chunda Bay, north Queensland

Growth rates of the subtropical copepod, A. gibber, were measured from 9 field and 3 laboratory experiments between April 1992 and November 1994.
Plankton were collected 500 m from the shore in Chunda Bay using a 0.5 m diameter, 280 &micro;m plankton net. Plankton were transferred into a 20 litre bucket filled with water from the bay. In the laboratory, the plankton were concentrated and then sorted under a binocular microspope, 200-400 adult female Acrocalanus gibber were transferred into a 20 cm diameter PVC cylinder with 100 &micro;m mesh covering the bottom. The cylinder was suspended in a bucket containing 20 litres of 37 &micro;m screened bay water, to which excess cultured phytoplankton had been added. Eggs from the females easily isolated from the adults as they passed through the mesh of the cylinder.
Concentrations of eggs and nauplii were kept for field growth experiements  in Chunda Bay. Containers were suspended in Chunda Bay in North Queensland and samples removed every 1-2 days. Growth rates and egg production rates were determined. Carbon and nitrogen contents of each of the developmental stages and from the filters (laboratory) and water (field) were recorded.
Date, temperature, chlorophyll a, prosome length, molting rate, and copepod weight were also recorded. The origin of the animals was also recorded: w - wild caught females; e - females produced in experimental incubations.
Field and laboratory studies were carried out to examine the effects of temperature and food supply on growth rates of the copepod, Acrocalanus gibber, a common component of the plankton in subtropical and tropical waters.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Modelling PFW from the Harriet A Platform

A unique field study was used to trial the application of the model MUDMAP to investigate the dispersion of produced formation water (PFW) from the offshore petroleum platform Harriet A on Australia's North West Shelf. In September 1995 scientists from AIMS and another organisation collected extensive field data on the fate and dispersion of PFW discharged from Harriet A. These datasets provided the opportunity to calibrate the dispersion model MUDMAP for these conditions. The model was used to successfully validate a flood tide plume.

Tags: Mapping, Marine Features (Australia) | North West Shelf, WA, Modelling, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Hydrocarbons
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
RAN CTD Profile Data - HMAS MELVILLE ProjectID: HI509MEL_M From: 2012-01-09 To: 2012-02-26

This dataset contains quality controlled vertical profiles of pressure, temperature and salinity measured by a Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) probe. The dataset contains 611 CTD profiles (casts) obtained during RAN Hydrographic Survey cruise HI509MEL_M from HMAS MELVILLE.
The CTD was manufactured by Applied Microsystems Limited and is the "Micro CTD" model. This CTD type is referred to operationally as the MVP200_CTD. This CTD is fitted with a 4 electrode platinized conductivity cell, thermistor temperature sensor and a semiconductor strain gauge pressure sensor.
The CTD sensors are calibrated at the manufacturer Applied Microsystems Limited on a 12-18 month schedule. The CTD temperature sensor is calibrated against 'Hart' temperature standards. The pressure sensor is calibrated using 'Budenburg Deadweight' standards. The conductivity sensor is calibrated using 'Hart' temperature standards and seawater samples of known conductivity.
The CTD sensors are mounted to a fish-shape probe. The probe is controlled by an electric winch (MVP200 type). For downcasts the fish is allowed to free-fall (winch is in 'free-wheel' mode) under its own weight at about 2-3 ms-1 and then is winched back. Data is recorded in downcast and usually in upcast direction at a sampling rate of 25 Hz. The downcast data is of higher quality because sensors encounter undisturbed seawater that flows through the nose of the fish. On the upcast the fish is flipped around (tail first) and the sensors in the nose encounter disturbed flow from the fish tail.
This type of CTD is prone to a phenomenon called 'salinity spiking' caused by a mismatch between the response times of the temperature and conductivity sensor. Data undergoes a salinity de-spiking routine to correct for this. See the history metadata for further details on the salinity de-spiking process.
Raw CTD pressure data is not always monotonic due to transient up/down motion of winch/ship. Raw pressure data is subsetted to give a monotonic (increasing) sequence and then linearly interpolated to 1 decibar pressure intervals. Data is then flagged with quality control flags after visual inspection and comparison to average climatology and historical CTD casts.

Tags: Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, sea_water_practical_salinity, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
The Cause of Breaks in Holocene Beach Ridge Progradation at Bengello Beach

The data that was collected for this thesis includes thermoluminescent dates,  topographic surveys using a Sokkia total station, mapped stratigraphic changes sourced from the use of ground-penetrating radar (GPR), LiDAR, vegetation analyses, contemporary analogue comparison and bruun model testing, across five transects at Bengello Beach, NSW. The data was collected between 2007 and 2010. The date range of the beach ridge plain was to approximately 6000 cal BP. The data was used to identify periods of erosion and assess changes in sea level and wave climate throughout the late Holocene.

Tags: Australia, Australian Capital Territory, CLIMATE-AND-WEATHER-Climate-change, CLIMATE-AND-WEATHER-Drought, CLIMATE-AND-WEATHER-El-Nino, CLIMATE-AND-WEATHER-Extreme-weather-events, CLIMATE-AND-WEATHER-Meteorology, GEOSCIENCES-Geomorphology, HAZARDS-Severe-local-storms, LAND-Geography, MARINE-Coasts, MARINE-Geology-and-Geophysics, New South Wales, OCEANOGRAPHY-Physical
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Deep Water Moorings - Deep Water Arrays (DA) Sub-facility, Polynya array, Polynya3 Mooring Platform

The Polynya3 (Mertz region) deepwater mooring was deployed on 2011-01-23 at (-66.15 S, 143.01 E) off the Adelie Land Coast in Antarctica, and currently remains in place, inaccessible due to pack ice. In February 2014 a second array was deployed in a new location near the Totten Glacier, which was decommissioned in January 2015.
Instrumentation includes 75kHz Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (RDI longranger ADCPs), and Seabird SBE37s (SM, SMP and SMP-ODO).
The mooring will collect a time series of full-depth profiles of water velocity and discrete temperature and salinity measurement at four depth on each mooring, between the seafloor and 300m depth (the mooring are limited to this depth to avoid contact with icebergs).
This Polynya mooring array will re-continue the time series of bottom water export begun in 2008, using observation strategy, modified as required following recovery of the array in 2009.
The aim of the IMOS Polynya mooring array is to measure the export of dense Antarctic Bottom Water from the Adélie Land coast. Sinking of dense water near Antarctica supplies the deep branch of the global overturning circulation, a pattern of ocean currents that strongly influences climate. Several studies have recently shown that the properties of the bottom water in the Australian Antarctic Basin are changing. Monitoring the temperature, salinity and oxygen of bottom water will provide observations to detect how the Southern Ocean limb of the overturning circulation is responding to changes in high latitude climate forcing. The goal of the new Totten region location is to obtain measurements of "warm" inflow to, and (if possible) outflow from the Totten Glacier system. As it happened, access right to the Totten was not possible, and moorings were sited closer to the Dalton Iceberg Tongue and Moscow University Ice Shelf, possibly part of the Totten inflow story.

Tags: Buoys | Moored Buoys, CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Current Meters/Profilers | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), IMOS Facility | Deep Water Moorings, IMOS Platform | POLYNYA3 | Polynya3 Mooring, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Nephelometer data sets for Geoffrey Bay Deep  Cleveland Bay - 1993

This metadata record covers a subset of the data collected during dredging by the Townsville Port Authority in Cleveland Bay in 1993.   Data are divided into a number of main groups: Wind, tide gauge, wave rider, S4, sediment traps, water samples and nephelometers.  The data are grouped according to collection method and sampling location. See the metadata record title for collection method and geographic extent for the sampling location. Unique site numbers were assigned within Cleveland Bay at which data were collected.  Some of these sites were named, and others were unnamed.

Tags: Nephelometer, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sedimentation, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Turbidity, suspended_sediment_concentration
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network