AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Designing monitoring programmes for Marine Protected Areas within an Evidence Based Decision Making paradigm

The Evidence Based Decision Making (EBDM) paradigm encourages managers to base their decisions on the strongest available evidence, but it has been criticized for placing too much emphasis on the choice of study design method without considering the types of questions that are being addressed as well as other relevant factors such as how well a study is implemented. Here we review the objectives of Australia’s Marine Park network, and identify the types of questions and data analysis that would address these objectives. Critically, we consider how the design of a monitoring program influences our ability to adequately answer these questions, using the strength of evidence hierarchy from the EBDM paradigm to assess the adequacy of different design strategies and other sources of information. It is important for conservation managers to recognize that the types of questions monitoring programs are able to answer depends on how they are designed and how the collected data are analyzed. The socio-political process that dictates where protected areas are placed typically excludes the strongest types of evidence, Random Controlled Trials (RCTs), for certain questions. Evidence bases that are stronger than ones commonly employed to date, however, could be used to provide a causal inference, including for those questions where RCTs are excluded, but only if appropriate designs such as cohort or case-control studies are used, and supported where relevant by appropriate sample frames. Randomized, spatially balanced sampling, together with careful selection of control sites, and more extensive use of propensity scores and structured elicitation of expert judgment, are also practical ways to improve the evidence base for answering the questions that underlie marine park objectives and motivate long-term monitoring programs.

Citation: Hayes KR, Hosack GR, Lawrence E, Hedge P, Barrett NS, Przeslawski R, Caley MJ and Foster SD (2019) Designing Monitoring Programs for Marine Protected Areas Within an Evidence Based Decision Making Paradigm. Front. Mar. Sci. 6:746. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00746

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, Evidence Based Decision Making - EBDM, Published_External, causality, design methodology, marine protected area, monitoring
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Hydrocarbon and Geothermal Prospectivity of Sedimentary Basins in Central Australia; Warburton, Cooper, Pedirka, Galilee, Simpson and Eromanga Basins

Within the Central Australian region, nominally constrained by 22.5oS 134oE and 31.5oS 144oE for this study, lie several systems of stacked basins beneath the extensive Mesozoic Eromanga Basin.  Remnants of Proterozoic basins are largely inferred from gravity, unexplored, and are not everywhere differentiated from an extensive cover of the lower Palaeozoic Warburton Formation.  This sequence is the central link between the contiguous Amadeus, Officer and Georgina Basins, and the Thomson Fold Belt. 

Since the Carboniferous, the region has largely experienced intracratonic sag and has accumulated continental sediments, including thick coal measures, with intermittent tectonism and uplift. In late Early Cretaceous, marine conditions briefly invaded this subsiding region, but continental sedimentation resumed in the Late Cretaceous. Tectonism occurred in the Tertiary with basin inversion and subsequent formation of the Great Artesian Basin. In the Cainozoic, the region is again in subsidence and accommodating fluvial and aeolian sediment slowly into the Eyre Basin. The preserved depocentres of the Carboniferous-Permian-Triassic Cooper, Pedirka-Simpson, and Galilee Basins are spatially separate, although all contain comparable, largely organically-mature continental coal measure sequences.

Tags: AU-QLD, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Record, geothermal, hydrocarbons, sedimentary basins
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Classification of Australian clastic coastal depositional environments based upon a quantitative analysis of wave, tidal and river power

A statistical assessment of wave, tide, and river power was carried out using a database of 721 Australian clastic coastal depositional environments to test whether their geomorphology could be predicted from numerical values. The geomorphic classification of each environment (wave- and tide-dominated deltas, wave- and tide-dominated estuaries, lagoons, strand plains, and tidal flats) was established independently from remotely sensed imagery. To our knowledge, such a systematic numerical analysis has not been previously attempted for any region on earth.

Tags: AU-EEZ, Earth Sciences, External Publication, Published_External, Scientific Journal Paper, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
RV Investigator Voyage IN2026_V01 Gravity Data

This record describes gravity data collected on RV Investigator voyage IN2026_V01, titled "Cook Ice Ecosystems and Sediments (COOKIES)." The voyage took place between January 02, 2026 and February 25, 2026 (AEST), departing from Hobart and returning to Hobart.

The gravity meter instrument is a MicroG Lacoste Air-Sea II. Data are stored in .ENV and .DAT data files at CSIRO. There are 53 files totalling 863 MB of raw data in this dataset.

No processing has been conducted on this dataset.

Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the GSM data acquisition and processing report.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
RV Investigator Voyage IN2024_V02 ADCP Data

This record describes the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data collected from the Marine National Facility RV Investigator voyage IN2024_V02, titled: "SOTS: Southern Ocean Time Series automated moorings for climate and carbon cycle studies southwest of Tasmania." The voyage took place between March 31, 2024 and April 19, 2024 (AEST), departing from Hobart and returning to Hobart.

ADCPs were switched off during EK80 surveying of Patience Seamount and moorings sites to reduce signal interference during operations. On the 14th of April, the WH75 stopped logging due to checksum errors. Recording was restarted and it resumed logging, however checksum errors continued until it stopped logging again. It was suspected that water ingress had affected the instrument as had previously occurred during IN2024_V01, so the instrument was disconnected from power as a safety precaution.

No issues were reported for the OS150.

ADCP data were collected using the University of Hawaii Data Acquisition System (UHDAS) and post-processed using the Common Ocean Data Access System (CODAS). Documentation for these systems can be found in (Hummon, 2009-2021).

The RDI Ocean Surveyor OS150 and OS75 were run in narrowband mode (nb), the WH75 in broadband mode.
Internal triggering was used.

Both port and starboard drop keels are located approximately 6m below the water line, additionally the port drop keel was extended by 2.0m for the entire duration of the voyage, subsequently the port keel transducer was located approximately 8.0m below the water line.

For more information please see the Processing Report (linked below).

This dataset was processed (quality-controlled), and then archived by the CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC).

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Geomorphology and Habitats of the Lord Howe Island Shelf

Flythrough movie showing the bathymetry of the shelf surrounding Lord Howe Island (NSW), with examples of seabed habitats and biota. The bathymetric image is derived from merged grids (8 m and 40 m resolution) that incorporates multibeam sonar collected in 2008 using a 30 kHz Simrad EM300 system on RV Southern Surveyor,  legacy sonar data from various sources and satellite-derived bathymetry (grid development detailed in GA Record 2010/36). Key features on the shelf bathymetry include a drowned reef that encircles the island and intervening areas of sediment-covered basins. Lord Howe Island shelf is a study site for the Marine Biodiversity Research Hub, funded through the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities (CERF) programme. Further information is provided in GA Record 2010/26.

Tags: AU-NSW, CERF, DEM, Earth Sciences, Flythrough, Multimedia, Published_External, bathymetry, continental shelf, geomorphology, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Interactions between Physical, Chemical, Biological, and Sedimentological Processes in Australia's shelf seas

Australia is an island continenet extending from tropical to midlatitude waters with an Exclusive Economic Zone of some 8.6 million square kilometres. Its regional seas are exposed to climatological conditions ranging from the westerly Roaring Forties winds in the south, to monsoon and tropical cyclone conditions in the north. It also encompasses regions of extreme biodiversity, with 80 percent of southern temperate species endemic to the region.

The focus of marine research in Australia is becoming more interdisciplinary in response to factors such as the national government's recent Oceans Policy, which emphasises sustainable development and ecological based management. However, historically there have been relatevely few major interdisciplinary studies in Australian waters.

Tags: AU-EEZ, Earth Sciences, External Publication, Monograph, Published_External, marine, sedimentology
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction: Search and Rescue Region

Map showing the whole extent of Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction. Produced for the Australian Customs Service (Border Protection) with simplified legend showing 2012 confirmed CS and unconfirmed areas. Updated in 2019 to reflect the 2018 Australia Timor-Leste Maritime Boundaries Treaty. Also refer to eCat 132906 (without SAR zone).

Tags: Administrative Boundary, Earth Sciences, Published_External, Thematic Map, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
The Geology of a Large Submerged Continental Block: the Kenn Plateau Off Northeast Australia

In general, we met the scientific objective of this voyage in improving our understanding of the geological evolution and modern environmental setting of the poorly known Kenn Plateau off northeast Australia. The voyage was an overall success, but the sampling program was greatly curtailed for two reasons: problems with the Geoscience Australia seismic compressor increased the amount of seismic time needed, and the ship's winches failed with 4 sampling days to go.

As Chief Scientist for the Mellish Rise voyage scheduled for November-December 2004, I gratefully accepted the offer of an additional two days' ship time to allow some key Kenn Plateau dredges to be taken.  This will enable us to meet all our pre-voyage objectives, albeit late.

The RV Southern Surveyor's acquisition program can be summarised as:
1   Successful seismic program with 3090 km of high-quality seismic data collected. 
2   Successful swath-mapping program with 7584 km of bathymetric data using the SIMRAD EM 300 multibeam sonar system.
3   Only 12 dredge hauls and one grab were obtained.

The seismic results will enable us to greatly improve our geological understanding of this very poorly known part of Australia's marine jurisdiction. The swath mapping results will improve existing bathymetric maps and also our understanding of sedimentary processes on the plateau margins. The sampling results will allow us to start to build up a reliable geological history of this region. This survey recovered the first ancient rocks from this large frontier offshore region. 

The performance of the vessel and equipment was generally good.  The entire ship's crew performed very well, being professional, helpful and courteous. The CSIRO support technicians did everything that could be expected of them. Steve Thomas was an excellent voyage manager, always looking for and finding ways to help the Geoscience Australia science contingent in their work.

Tags: AU-QLD, Earth Sciences, External Publication, Published_External, Report, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
RV Investigator Voyage IN2015_C02 Underway UWY Data

This record describes Underway (UWY) data collected from the Marine National Facility RV Investigator Charter Voyage IN2015_C02 titled: Great Australian Bight (GAB) Deep water pelagic and benthic ecosystem study. The voyage took place between the 30th November to 22nd December 2015 departing Port Lincoln (SA) and arriving in Fremantle (WA). 

Standard Underway data is continuously recorded consisting of:
(1) NAV: Navigation data: (dual GPS) Latitude, Longitude, Speed, Heading, course over ground, Gyros, and Doppler Log.
(2) TSG: Thermosalinograph: Water Salinity, flow-rate, Temperature, Fluorescence, and pCO2.
(3) MET: Atmospheric (port and starboard): Humidity, Wind speed and direction (vane and ultrasonic), Radiometer, Pyranometer, PAR, Air temperature, Air pressure, Rain, Ozone and Trace gases.

Data are recorded at 5 second intervals. Near real-time data is available via the link below. This dataset has been processed and archived within the CSIRO Oceans &amp; Atmosphere Data Centre in Hobart. Data is available in 5sec intervals in NetCDF, 10 sec and 5 min intervals in ascii csv format. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the cruise report for this voyage and/or the data processing report.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Late quaternary regional controls on the development of the Great Barrier Reef: geophysical evidence

High-resolution seismic reflection data have been examined in an attempt to identify and explain some of the regional differences and controls on the development of the Great Barrier Reef. The main controlling influence on the development of the Great Barrier Reef Province since the end of the Tertiary has been glacially controlled variations in sea level. Response to these has been qualified by variations in bathymetry, shelf width, drainage patterns, and sediment supply . The development of the Great Barrier Reef appears to have been strongly influenced by the antecedent surface and subaerial processes. but not to any great extent by karst processes. as suggested by Purdy. There is no evidence to suggest that the inner shelf is a karst marginal plain . and the existence of an extensive former limestone barrier platform on the marginal shelf can not be inferred from the seismic data. Subaerial and fluvial action appear as important processes in sculpturing the shelf during long periods of emergence in the late Cainozoic. Their effect varies both along and across the shelf.

Tags: Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Journal, Published_External, QLD, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Great Artesian Basin - Geomorphology

This dataset classifies the geomorphological features of the GAB and includes the offshore extents of the GAB beneath the Gulf of Carpentaria. The geomorphological classifications are grouped into the following categories based on depositional environment;
A: Marine 
B: Fluvial
C: Aeolian
D: Playa-lacustrine and,
E: Erosional terrain.

This dataset and associated metadata can be obtained from www.ga.gov.au, using catalogue number 81673.

REFERENCES:
Ransley, T., Radke, B., Feitz, A., Kellett, J., Owens, R., Bell, J. and Stewart, G., 2015. Hydrogeological Atlas of the Great Artesian Basin. Geoscience Australia. Canberra. [available from www.ga.gov.au using catalogue number 79790]

Harris et al., 2007  Submerged coral reefs and benthic habitats of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.  Geoscience Australia Record 2007/02

Heap et al., 2006  Sources and sinks of terrigenous sediments in the Southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Geoscience Australia Record 2006/11.

Reeves, J.M., Chivas, A.R., Garcia, A., Holt, S., Couapel, M.J.J., Jones, B.G., Cendon, D.I. and Fink, D., 2008  The sedimentary record of palaeoenvironments and sea-level change in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, through the last glacial cycle. Quaternary International 183 (2008), 3-22.

Harris, P.T., Heap, A.D., Marshall, J.F.,and McCulloch, M., 2008  A new coral reef province in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia: Colonisation, growth and submergence during the early Holocene. Marine Geology 151, 85-97.

Whiteway, T., 2009. Australian Bathymetry and Topography Grid, June 2009. Scale 1:5000000. Geoscience Australia, Canberra.http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/25/53D99B6581B9A

Gallant, J, Wilson, N, Dowling, T, Read, A, Inskeep, C., 2011.  SRTM-derived 3 Second Digital Elevation Models Version 1.0.  Geoscience Australia, Canberra.

Tags: Earth Sciences, GIS Dataset, NSW, NT, Published_External, QLD, Regional, SA
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
BMRG06MV Fremantle Southeast Indian Ridge to Port Hedland Bathymetry 1996 (1154/19960003S)

The BMRG06MV bathymetry survey was acquired by Bishop Museum, Hawaii and the University of California San Diego onboard the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UCSD/SIO) Research Vessel Melville from the 22 February to 13 April 1996 using the Seabeam 2000 sonar system.

The bathymetry dataset was acquired while the Research Vessel Melville was transiting from Fremantle to Port Headland.

This dataset contains the 128m-210m resolution, 32-bit geotiffs of the BMR06MV survey produced from the processed SeaBeam system using the CARIS HIPS and SIPS software. 

Appropriate acknowledgment must be given to both the original scientists (Orcutt, John) (http://www.marine-geo.org/tools/search/entry.php?id=BMR06MV#datasets) and to the Marine Geoscience Data System (www.marine-geo.org).

Not to be used for navigational purposes

Tags: AusSeabed, Australia-wide geoscience data, Bathymetry, Differential Global Positioning System receivers, EARTH SCIENCES, Indian Ocean, Marine, Offshore Mapping, Published_External, RV Melville, Resourcing Australia's Prosperity, multi-beam echosounders
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Progress towards an understanding of tsunami risk in NSW

Tsunamis pose considerable risk to coastal communities around the globe and understanding this risk is a key aspect of emergency management and risk reduction. This paper explores the nature and extent of tsunami hazard to NSW coastal communities and informs tsunami emergency planning and management.
We outline the results of recent risk scoping which have examined sources of tsunami hazard, and tsunami history together with results of inundation studies for selected sites and discuss the level of tsunami risk to these NSW communities.  We also outline how the results have complimented research by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in confirming tsunami warning thresholds for NSW.
Work undertaken to date indicates the coast of NSW has a moderate tsunami hazard level. Whilst historical impact of tsunami inundation in NSW has been relatively minor, and generally restricted to marine based events, the modelling of selected earthquake generated events indicates the potential for land inundation particularly at high (rare) return periods. Low lying populated communities around estuary foreshores are particularly at risk although results also indicate the potential for inundation of open coast sites at very high (very rare) return periods. 
The results confirm the need for and support the ongoing collaborative development of emergency management arrangements for tsunami.

Tags: External Publication, Natural Hazards, Published_External
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Some aspects of lagoon sedimentation and circulation at One Tree Reef, Southern Great Barrier Reef

Observations of water movement at One Tree Reef under modal wind, wave, and tide conditions show that the lagoon currents are insufficient to entrain lagoon sediments and cannot account for the windward to leeward decrease in sediment size across the lagoon.  Bioturbation may suspend bottom material long enough for it to be transported a short distance by the ambient current, depending on the grain size and current velocity. In addition, low-frequency, high-energy events largely produce the same southeast to northwest movement of water observed under modal energy conditions and would be responsible for transporting and sorting large volumes of sediment over a short period. Patch reefs locally supply significant amounts of sediment directly to the lagoon, resulting in a local increase in sediment size and a characteristic build-up of material and extension of patch reefs to leeward. These observations are directly applicable to other reefs with well-developed lagoons in the southern Great Barrier Reef and may also apply to similar reefs in other parts of the Great Barrier Reef.

Tags: Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Journal, Published_External, QLD, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction in Bass Strait

Map showing Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction in Bass Strait.
One of the 27 constituent maps of the "Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series" (GeoCat 71789).
Depicting Australia's extended continental shelf, approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008, and various maritime zones.  Background bathymetric image is derived from a combination of the 2009 9 arc second bathymetric and topographic grid by GA and a grid by Smith and Sandwell, 1997.
A0 sized portrait format .pdf downloadable from the web.

Tags: AU-TAS, AU-VIC, Administrative Boundary, Earth Sciences, Published_External, Thematic Map, administrative boundaries, bathymetry, continental shelf, marine, marine jurisdiction
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Magnetic anomaly grid of the Australian Region

These data represent the January 2002 edition of the Magnetic Anomaly Grid of the Australian Region. This  version is the first integrated onshore/offshore magnetic anomaly grid for the complete Australian margin extending across 8S - 52S, 106E - 172E. The grid cell size is 0.01 degree (approx. 1 km). Earlier releases were restricted to portions of NW and SW Australia.
- Magnetic anomaly unit is nanoTesla (nT). Appropriate IGRFs have been removed. Horizontal datum is GDA94 (which is equivalent to WGS84).
- The marine data were levelled independently of the onshore data in three sectors (see below). The NNW and SSW sectors were released as grids previously. The eastern sector was levelled in 2000 in collaboration with Intrepid Geophysics (Melbourne, Australia). The three levelled sectors, together with the unlevelled sectors were combined with the onshore grid to give the present grid. Altogether, 3,022,656 data points are in the database from which the marine grid was created.
- Unlevelled sectors: (-8  -25  160  172), (-39  -52  156  172), (-46  -52  106  140)
- Levelled sectors: (-37  -52  140  156), (-25  -39  143  172), (-8  -25  143  160), (-24  -46  106  140), (-8  -24  106  143)
- There are several places at the join between onshore and offshore grids where the two grids do not match. The problem exists because the onshore grid was developed earlier, and there was poor control on the grid merging process at the margins. Future work will attempt to address this issue and improve the continuity between the onshore and offshore grids.

Tags: Data Package, Earth Sciences, Geothematic, National dataset, Published_External, TMI, dataset, geophysics, magnetics
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network