AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
NESP TWQ Project 5.1 - Matching the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Integrated Pest Management to the scale of the new Control Program, 2019-2020 (CSIRO)

The CoTS IPM program designed an ecologically informed control program that integrates knowledge of the spatial and temporal dynamics of CoTS outbreaks and the operations of onwater control to provide:



the most efficient strategies for investing management effort at all scales of management;

an operational framework for the control program, and, iii) to identify and fill key research gaps.


This project supported the expansion of the IPM’s tools to match the expansion of the control program, finalized scenario testing to assess appropriate control objectives, and, assessed the social benefits of the CoTS training program.

Tags: National Environmental Science Programme Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
eAtlas Web Mapping Service (WMS) (AIMS)

The eAtlas delivers its mapping products via two Web Mapping Services, a legacy server (from 2008-2011) and a newer primary server (2011+) to which all new content is added. This record describes the primary WMS.

This service delivers map layers associated with the eAtlas project (https://eatlas.org.au), which contains map layers of environmental research focusing on the Great Barrier Reef and its neighbouring coast, the Wet Tropics rainforests and Torres Strait. It also includes lots of reference datasets that provide context for the research data. These reference datasets are sourced mostly from state and federal agencies. In addition to this a number of reference basemaps and associated layers are developed as part of the eAtlas and these are made available through this service.

This services also delivers map layers associated with the Torres Strait eAtlas.

This web map service is predominantly set up and maintained for delivery of visualisations through the eAtlas mapping portal (https://maps.eatlas.org.au) and the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN) portal (http://portal.aodn.org.au). Other portals are free to use this service with attribution, provided you inform us with an email so we can let you know of any changes to the service.

This WMS is implemented using GeoServer version 2.13 software hosted on a Amazon Web Services (AWS) server. Associated with each WMS layer is a corresponding cached tiled service which is much faster then the WMS. Please use the cached version when possible.

The layers that are available can be discovered by inspecting the GetCapabilities document generated by the GeoServer. This XML document lists all the layers, their descriptions and available rendering styles. Most WMS clients should be able to read this document allowing easy access to all the layers from this service.

For ArcMap use the following steps to add this service:
1. "Add Data" then choose GIS Servers from the "Look in" drop down. 
2. Click "Add WMS Server" then set the URL to "https://maps.eatlas.org.au/maps/wms?"

Note: this service has over 1500 layers and so retrieving the capabilities documents can take a while.

This services is operated by the Australian Institute of Marine Science and co-funded by the National Environmental Research Program Tropical Ecosystems hub.

Tags: GeoServer, GeoWebCache, WMS, WMTS, Web Mapping Service, Web Mapping Tiled Service, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area - Plan roads (WTMA)

This dataset contains line features depicting road classification within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. There are five categories of roads in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area roads where motor vehicle use is allowed by the public. These are as follows:
1. State-controlled road: roads which form part of the State’s road network.
2. Community access road: significant roads for local community transport.
3. Presentation road: roads which provide opportunities for presentation of the WHA
4. Presentation (restricted) road: presentation roads where a permit is required for use of a motor vehicle.
5. Management road: roads to provide access for management and research purposes. General public use of these roads is not considered appropriate.

Refer to http://www.wettropics.gov.au/site/user-assets/docs/MotorVehicleAccess.pdf and http://www.wettropics.gov.au/site/user-assets/docs/s62_08motorvehiclesupdate.pdf for additional information.

Wet Tropics road classifications only affect access by motorised vehicles. They do not affect access by mountain bike, horse or pedestrian traffic as these activities are not regulated under the Wet Tropics Management Plan 1998. However, other legislation may affect such use in the World Heritage Area.

Roads which provide access to private land in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area (defined as ‘lawful access roads’ under the Plan) are not depicted on these maps.

The original information was derived primarily from 1:50,000 topographic maps. This was augmented using local knowledge and aerial photography. Main roads data was replaced using GPS fixed centrelines supplied by the Queensland Government.

Positional accuracy
Refer to source data as shown in attribute table.

Attribute accuracy
Attributes which are directly relevant to the  Wet Tropics World Heritage Area have a 100% accuracy. These include information in the PlanClass98, Legend and InWha fields. The remaining fields - Source, Name, Standard, CurrentUse, Formation, WidthApprox - are indicative only.

Completeness
The dataset is complete within the World Heritage Area. An incomplete set of roads are shown outside the World Heritage Area.

Citation
Wet Tropics Management Authority (2013). Plan roads of the Wet Tropics Bioregion of Queensland. Wet Tropics Management Authority, Cairns.

/Base data/Data reproduced with permission of Wet Tropics Management Authority/

This metadata was prepared for the eAtlas and is not authoritative. Please contact the Wet Tropics Management Authority for an authoritative record.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
GBR - Effects of the 2004 Great Barrier Reef rezoning on recreational fishers, 2006 - 2008 (MTSRF 4.8.5, JCU)

This dataset contains telephone (n=1743), mail (n=800), and face-to-face (n=132) survey data collected from the recreational fishing community in the Great Barrier Reef region. The surveys were aimed primarily at understanding fishers' attitudes and perceptions regarding the 2004 rezoning of the GBR and the impacts of the new zoning plan on recreational fishing activity and the spatial distribution of recreational fishing effort.

Data units:
Quantitative attitudinal and perception data plus extensive spatial data on recreational fishers' pre- and post-rezoning fishing locations.

References:
- Sutton, S.G.and R. Tobin. 2009. Recreational fishers' attitudes towards the 2004 rezoning of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Environmental Conservation. Published on-line December 18, 2009.

Tags: marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Datasets collated for quantifying the ecosystem services of the Great Southern Reef (NESP MaC 1.9)

Ecosystems provide numerous services and benefits to society. While historically overlooked, these services are increasingly recognized and are now being mapped and accounted for. There are several approaches to mapping and evaluating these ecosystem services. In this report, we use two increasingly common approaches, Ocean Accounting and Welfare Economics, to evaluate ecosystem services for the Great Southern Reef.

The Great Southern Reef is a network of rocky reefs dominated by temperate algal forests known as kelp. It spans over 8,000 Km of coastline and supports two thirds of the Australian population. Despite its presumed importance, there has been little work quantifying the extent and value of the ecosystem services provided by the Great Southern Reef.

Through a systematic review we assessed the current state of knowledge of the ecosystem services provided by the Great Southern Reef. Using the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES) framework, we created an overview of the ecosystem services (provisioning, regulating, and cultural) provided by the Great Southern Reef in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia. We then created metrics to quantify how these services benefit coastal societies in these five states.

Highlight summaries include over 17 million Australians who live within 50 Km of the reef, 26 wild seaweed harvest companies, 115 tourism SCUBA operators, 1436 mapped dive sites, 18 million tourist visits each year, 16 temperate marine biology university programs, 43 books and films, key medical products, 23 tons of harvested seaweed, 1116 grams of carbon per m2 used for growth each year, 2,361 peer-reviewed scientific publications from 1976 to 2022, 186 marine protected areas, 2.16 million recreational fishers, and over 28 commercial fisheries with 20,000 tons of biomass taken each year.

We then conducted economic evaluations using these biophysical values and the available information. Using a variety of approaches, we found that the total economic value of the Great Southern Reef was $11.56 billion each year. Individually the values were as follows, commercial fishing (producer surplus - $33.2 million), carbon sequestration (avoided damages - $37.8 million), nutrient cycling (avoided damages - $6,484 million), recreational fishing (consumer surplus - $1,668 million), diving and snorkelling (consumer surplus - $403 million), other recreational activities (consumer surplus $1,836 million), and the existence value (consumer surplus - $1,096 million).

Tags: National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Particulate organic carbon data in Antarctic waters

The aim of the project was to determine the particulate organic carbon concentration in coastal polynyas and off-shelf sites south of the Polar Front. Data is collected from the CTD deployed at various stations. This record descripbes three datafiles.

(1) POC_data: station, pressure, temperature, conductivity, salinity, PAR, total beam attenuation coefficients (c), attenuation by particles (cp), site, particulate organic carbon concentration (from optical measurements), rho, longitude and latitude.
(2) Ammonium: station, pressure, site, ammonium, latitude, longitude
(3) POC_PON_ratio: site, depth, particulate organic carbon concentration (measured) particulate organic nitrogen concentration (measured), C:N ratio.

Tags: Niskin bottle deployed from CTD, Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR)
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Benthic annotations of stereo-BRUV and drop camera imagery from the South-west Corner Marine Park (NESP MaC 1.4)

Benthic habitat annotations of stereo Baited Remote Underwater Video (Stereo-BRUV) and panoramic drop camera imagery, were completed as part of a report funded by the NESP Marine &amp; Coastal Hub. This report focussed on an IUCN II zone in the South-west Corner Marine Park off the 'Capes region' near Margaret River. These data were analysed in TransectMeasure using a modified version of the CATAMI scheme.

Tags: National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub, seafloor habitat, underwater imagery
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Marine Habitats of Western Australia

This dataset consists of polygons delineating the broad-scale regional marine habitats of selected areas in Western Australia, mostly in existing and proposed marine conservation reserve areas. Habitat mapping was carried out by various organisations, including DPAW, using a range of methodologies over many years. Diverse classifications and habitat descriptions were standardised to the DPaW broad-scale Shallow-water Marine Habitat Classification scheme (SMHC) (Bancroft, 2003) after initial habitat mapping and classification work had been done. Habitat polygons are classified to the broad-scale ecological Community level and where more detailed data exist, local-scale Functional Group level (Bancroft, 2003). Polygons were attributed with habitat class names only, textual descriptions of these classes are provided in this metadata statement and further in Bancroft (2003).

Tags: Benthic habitat, Broad-scale habitat classification (ecological Community level), Local-scale classification (ecological Functional group level), WESTERN AUSTRALIA WEST COAST
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Fast Repetition Rate Fluorometry (FRRF) data collected on the RV L'Astrolabe from 31/12/2007 to 05/01/2008 (Hobart - Dumont d'Urville)

These data were collected on the RV L'Astrolabe (platform code: FHZI) from 31/12/2007 to 05/01/2008 on a trip from Hobart to Dumont D'Urville.

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
An improved model of particle attenuation reduces estimates of Southern Ocean carbon transfer efficiency

The downward transport of organic particles produced by marine organisms is a key control on the ocean's carbon storage. Measurements of particle attenuation through the water column have historically been used to infer the sequestration potential of the biological carbon pump. While often modelled using a single power-law fit, this simplification may obscure important depth-dependent processes.
Using data from biogeochemical-Argo floats in the Southern Ocean, here we show that splitting the water column into two distinct regimes captures depth-dependent variability in particle attenuation more effectively. Compared to the single power-law fit the model reveals greater attenuation just below the productive layer, reducing particulate organic carbon flux into the mesopelagic (200 - 400 m) by 40 - 60 %.
 Our findings suggest a more mechanistic representation of particle attenuation is needed to improve estimates of carbon transport and the durability of biologically-based marine carbon dioxide removal technologies, and to reduce uncertainties in ocean-climate feedbacks and future climate projections.

Tags: BGC Argo floats, Southern Ocean, carbon pump, phytoplankton
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Collated data inventory for NE Siberian Red Knot in relation to the Gippsland Offshore Renewable Energy declaration area (NESP MaC 3.21)

This project undertook a rapid exploration of information on a priority subset of species identified by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) and the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environment Authority (NOPSEMA) that are listed as critically endangered or endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. It specifically focused on these species in relation to the Gippsland declaration area, and the adjacent areas to the declaration area in Bass Strait.

This rapid exploration of information was conducted as follows:
1)  identify datasets and information sources relevant to priority species identified by DCCEEW and NOPSEMA for the Gippsland declaration area; 
2)  identify the source of these datasets and information and their level of accessibility;
3)  evaluate the utility of datasets and information identified in 2) for assessments/regulatory processes required to be undertaken by DCCEEW and NOPSEMA; and 
4)  identify what activities would need to be undertaken to improve the accessibility and utility of datasets and information sources identified in 3) that are not currently accessible in useable formats. 

Fifteen priorities species (12 birds, 3 cetaceans) were identified for which publicly-available occurrence data could be located. This record and the attached download describes the data inventory for North-Eastern Siberian Red Knot (Calidris canutus).

To download the data inventory for all fifteen priority species, see https://doi.org/10.25959/GB51-RW44.

Tags: Calidris canutus, Offshore renewable energy (ORE), Offshore wind energy, Seabirds, Shorebirds, Threatened, endangered and protected species
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Striped Trumpeter (Latris lineata) growth and survival

For hatchery reared striped trumpeter (Latris lineata) data has been collected on length, weight, age, growth, size at metamorphosis, survival in relation to fish density, nutrition, health and system operation (tank size, water volume and quality, oxygen content).

Tags: 37 378001, Age, Agriculture | Agricultural Aquatic Sciences | Aquaculture, Growth, Latris lineata, Length, Size at metamorphosis, Survival, Weight, condition, growth, metamorphosis, survival
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - National Reef Monitoring Network Sub-Facility - Global off-transect species observations

The National Reef Monitoring Network brings together shallow reef surveys conducted around Australia into a centralised database. The IMOS National Reef Monitoring Network sub-Facility collates, cleans, stores and makes this data rapidly available from contributors including: Reef Life Survey, Parks Australia, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (Western Australia), Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (South Australia), Department of Primary Industries (New South Wales), Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service and Parks Victoria.

The data provided by the National Reef Monitoring Network contributes to establishing and supporting national marine baselines, and assisting with the management of Commonwealth and State marine reserves. 

Reef Life Survey (RLS) and the Australian Temperate Reef Network (ATRC) aims to improve biodiversity conservation and the sustainable management of marine resources by coordinating surveys of rocky and coral reefs using scientific methods, with the ultimate goal to improve coastal stewardship. Our activities depend on the skills of marine scientists, experienced and motivated recreational SCUBA divers, partnerships with management agencies and university researchers, and active input from the ATRC partners and RLS Advisory Committee.

RLS and ATRC data are freely available to the public for non-profit purposes, so not only managers, but also groups such as local dive clubs or schools may use these data to look at changes over time in their own local reefs. By making data freely available and through public outputs, RLS and ATRC aims to raise broader community awareness of the status of Australia's marine biodiversity and associated conservation issues.

This dataset contains unstandardised occurrence records of bony fishes and elasmobranchs. They include any sightings of species by Reef Life Survey (RLS)  and Australian Temperate Reef Collaboration (ATRC) divers and partners that were outside of the quanitative survey limits, but can be considered as occuring at that site on the date of the survey they are listed with.

This dataset supersedes the RLS specific "Reef Life Survey (RLS): Global reef fish dataset" collection that was available at https://catalogue-rls.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?uuid=9c766140-9e72-4bfb-8f04-d51038355c59 (provision of data was stopped in June 2021).

Tags: Continents | Antarctica, Global / Oceans | Atlantic Ocean, Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean, Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean, Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean, Global / Oceans | World, Marine Features (Global) | Bay of Bengal, Regional Seas | Arafura Sea, Regional Seas | Banda Sea, Regional Seas | Bismarck Sea, Regional Seas | Coral Sea, Regional Seas | Gulf of Thailand, Regional Seas | Mediterranean Sea, Regional Seas | Red Sea, Regional Seas | Solomon Sea, Regional Seas | Tasman Sea, Regional Seas | Timor Sea
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Predicting the distribution of foraging seabirds during a period of heightened environmental variability

Ecosystem data was collected as part of an integrated study of the continental shelf over a 2 and a half year period between November 2015 and January 2018. Data were collected bi-monthly through the spring to autumn (November, January, March, May). Stations were situated perpendicular to shelf bathymetry, ranging in depth from ~50 m to 100 m near the edge of the shelf and were located between 5 km and 15 km from land; encompassing from south Storm Bay, past the southern tip of Bruny Island and into the Southern Ocean (south-east Tasmania, Australia). Data collected focused on each trophic level, characterizing the zooplankton community, fish schools and marine predators. The overarching aim of the study was to investigate the effects of long term warming, and a marine heatwave event on zooplankton dynamics in terms of community response variables and the flow-on effects of changing lower-trophic level dynamics for top predators.

Tags: boat-based ocean sampling, penguin, procellariiformes, visual survey
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network