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Great Barrier Reef Marine Monitoring Program for Inshore Water Quality - Vertical Profiles of Conductivity Temperature and Depth (CTD)

This metadata record describes vertical profile data from Conductivity Temperature and Depth (CTD) profilers collected through in situ monitoring by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Monitoring Program for Inshore Water Quality (MMP WQ). A full description of the MMP WQ and its associated datasets can be found in the parent metadata record linked above.

Sea-Bird Electronics CTD profilers are used for vertical casts and are typically fitted with additional sensors to measure parameters such as fluorescence (a proxy for chlorophyll a concentration), turbidity, beam attenuation, dissolved oxygen concentration, and photosynthetically active radiation (downwelling light) sensors. Instrument models SBE 19plus and SBE 19plusV2 are used currently, while older records include data from SBE 25, SBE 25plus, and SBE 9plus instrument models. Annual calibrations of profilers are carried out in Sea-Bird Electronics laboratories in the USA. These calibration values are included within the instrument configuration file. Pre-trip CTD checks are carried out before each field trip, which include checking the physical status of the sensors and cables and battery voltage. 

Prior to conducting a cast, the CTD is secured to the hydrographic wire, tubing is removed to allow flush water to drain from the conductivity-temperature cell, and any protective caps are removed from the other sensors. The CTD is lowered into the water sitting ~3 m below the surface, and a three minute &quot;soak&quot; allows sensors to equilibrate and air bubbles to be flushed by the pump. The CTD is then raised to ~0.2 below the surface and the profile is commenced at a rate of 0.5 &ndash; 1 m s-1. The CTD is sent to near-bottom, ensuring it does not touch the seafloor, and retrieved to the surface. Casts are done on the sunny side of the boat to avoid the boat&#39;s shadow interfering with the measured light profiles. Data processing is conducted using Sea-Bird proprietary software and includes:  conversion of raw instrumental records to measurement units, alignment, removal of ship roll, outlier removal, and bin averaging the down-cast at 1 m increments. Detailed procedures for data handling can be found in the MMP WQ&#39;s QA/QC Reports (see link below under Related Information).

CTD data can be downloaded from the Australian Ocean Data Network THREDDS Data Server in netCDF or csv format (see link below under Data Downloads). Water chemistry measurements taken at the time of each CTD cast can be retrieved from the MMP WQ physico-chemical and nutrient database (see parent metadata record above). Water quality data are collected in conjunction with the Great Barrier Reef Marine Monitoring Program for Inshore Coral Reefs (see link below under Related Information).

AIMS&#39; full database of CTD profiles from all around northern Australia can be found attached to a separate metadata record (see link below under Related Information).

Tags: Cape Ferguson, Solander, research vessel, small boat
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NSW Drillholes Coal

Locations of coal drillholes in NSW and associated information including depth, purpose and date drilled. This is the coal subset of the NSW drilling dataset available from Geoscientific Data Warehouse. The drillhole data has been compiled over time from various sources including mineral exploration reports and departmental records. It provides drill collar information for coal drillholes and associated data including classification of drilling purpose, drill type, licencee/driller information, date the hole was drilled, depth of hole drilled and references. This data is part of the New South Wales Geoscientific Data Warehouse (NSW GDW) series.

Tags: Geology, Mining
Organization: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD)
Multibeam Bathymetry Surveys in the West Cape York Marine Park (SOL7888)

This collection contains the bathymetry survey (SurveyID SOL788) acquired by the Australian Institute of Marine Science onboard the Research Vessel Solander from the 10th to the 20th of November, 2022, using the AIMS R2Sonic 2026 Multibeam sonar system.

The objectives of the West Cape York Marine Park cruise were to:

<code>conduct bathymetry mapping, fish population and benthic community surveys in the vicinity of Carpentaria and Merkara shoals and the pockmark features to explore fish and benthic fauna diversity in these areas;

determine the seafloor composition based on bathymetric data within the West Cape York Marine Park, including the Merkara Shoal;

map sedimentary patterns and processes to build an understanding of the pockmark features to the east of Carpentaria Shoal.
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Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Coral recruits demonstrate thermal resilience

Marine heatwaves are becoming more frequent during summer and pose a significant threat to coral reef ecosystems. Restoration efforts have the potential to support native coral populations and guard them against some degree of environmental change, while global action against climate change takes place. Interspecific hybridization is one approach through which resilient coral stock could be generated for restoration. Here we compared the performance of Acropora kenti and A. loripes hybrid and purebred coral recruits under a simulated thermal stress event. A. kenti eggs were successfully fertilized by A. loripes sperm to produce &lsquo;KL&rsquo; hybrids, but no &lsquo;LK&rsquo; hybrids could be produced from A. loripes eggs and A. kenti sperm. Despite corals in the elevated treatment accruing thermal stress (&gt;12 degree heating weeks over 2 months) known to result in mass bleaching, both purebred and hybrid recruits showed no signs of stress under the simulated temperature regime, based on the performance indicators survivorship, size, color (a proxy of bleaching), and photochemical efficiency of photosystem II. Comparisons between the hybrids and purebreds studied here must be interpreted with caution because hybrid sample sizes were small. The hybrids did not outperform both of their purebred counterparts for any metrics studied here, demonstrating that there are limitations to the extent to which interspecific hybridization may boost the performance of coral stock. In general, the purebred A. loripes recruits performed best under both ambient and elevated conditions. The performance of the KL hybrid corals was similar to the maternal parental species, A. kenti, or not significantly different to either parental purebred species. The Symbiodiniaceae communities of the KL hybrids were characteristic of their maternal counterparts and may have underpinned the performance differences between the A. kenti/KL hybrid and A. loripes recruits.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Differential transcriptomic responses to heat in wild-type and heat-evolved Symbiodiniaceae in adult P. daedalea

Adult Platygyra daedalea colonies were chemically bleached and inoculated with Cladocopium proliferum strains (WT10, SS1, SS8). Three months after inoculation, the newly estbalished symbioses were subjected to a heat stress experiment. Corals were split between ambient (27&deg;C) and elevated (32.2&deg;C) temperature treatments. After 4.9 eDHWs of accumulated heat stress, samples were taken from both temperature treatments for RNA sequencing. Following total RNA extraction, mRNA libraries were prepared and sequenced at Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics. A differential expression analyis in response to heat was then performed on coral host and Symbiodiniaceae gene expression data.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Demographic plasticity facilitates ecological and economic resilience in a commercially important reef fish

This data is associated with the Journal of Animal Ecology publication detailing age-based life-history characteristics of the bluespine unicornfish Naso unicornis across eleven populations spanning the Indo-Pacific. It contains age, sex, body size, and reproductive information for over 2500 specimens from the eleven locations, as well as increment width summaries for over 100 specimens from four locations.

This represents one of the largest standardized age-based datasets of a coral reef fish from multiple distant locations spanning biogeographic scales. Collection locations are detailed in the data and collections were made over several decades (although for individual locations data were generally collected within a one-year timeframe).

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Sediment Core Analysis Timor Sea Voyage SS06/2005

In June 2005, the Southern Surveyor Research Vessel commenced a trip to the Timor Sea region. This dataset contains 9 sediment cores and grab samples analysis collected on this voyage. This dataset relates to the objectives (as outlined in the Voyage Summary SS06/2005):
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Discover seeps of methane, oil, and brines on the seafloor, using wheelhouse sounder showing bubble plumes, seismic transects, swath mapping, surface and near bottom water sampling, and sediment coring tools. Gas chromatographic measurements of methane in water will be done in the ship laboratory.
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Obtain sediment cores from soft and hard bottom seafloor, and subsample the cores carefully for hydrocarbon and inorganic chemical measurements, and preserve samples for analyses in our home laboratories.
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Obtain samples of relict and living biota from the seafloor in association with submarine seeps, using sled dredges, rock dredges, Smith-MacIntyre Grab, and near-bottom water samples.
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Chemical analysis for organic and inorganic carbon, N P and other elements were undertaken to estimate the rate of sediment accumulation, trace elements, geochemical composition of sediment and burial rate of organic and carbonate carbon.

Further information and data regarding this voyage have been archived within the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre, including data from ADCP deployments, CTD Profiles, Hydrology, Underway and Multibeam echosounder data. A link to the CSIRO Data Protal is availalbe in the Related Information section below.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
bayesnec: An R Package for Concentration-Response Modeling and Estimation of Toxicity Metrics

The bayesnec package has been developed for R to fit concentration (dose)-response curves (CR) to toxicity data for the purpose of deriving no-effect-concentration (NEC), no-significant-effect-concentration (NSEC), and effect-concentration (of specified percentage &quot;x&quot;, ECx) thresholds from non-linear models fitted using Bayesian Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) via R packages brms and rstan or cmdstanr. In bayesnec it is possible to fit a single model, custom model-set, specific model-set or all of the available models. When multiple models are specified, the bnec() function returns a model weighted average estimate of predicted posterior values. A range of support functions and methods is also included to work with the returned single, or multi-model objects that allow extraction of raw, or model averaged predicted, NEC, NSEC and ECx values and to interrogate the fitted model or model-set. By combining Bayesian methods with model averaging, bayesnec provides a single estimate of toxicity and associated uncertainty that can be directly integrated into risk assessment frameworks.

For full details see: Fisher, R., Barneche, D. R., Ricardo, G. F., &amp; Fox, D. R. (2024). bayesnec: An R Package for Concentration-Response Modeling and Estimation of Toxicity Metrics. Journal of Statistical Software, 110(5), 1&ndash;41. https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v110.i05

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Coral Creek (Hinchinbrook Island)  Automated Marine Weather And Oceanographic Station

This data contains historical weather data from Coral Creek (Hinchinbrook Island), covering the period 16-10-1980 to 30-7-1985.These data were collected initially using tapes which were regularly exchanged and later by telemetery which sent binary data daily to a computer controlled base station. Data were verified by comparing three sets of the same data, received over three days. The base station passed data to the central computing facility at AIMS for processing.Data recorded: Wind direction (0-360°); Wind speed (km/hr); Air temperature (0-40°C); Barometric pressure (mB); Solar radiation (µE/sec/M2, PAR).Other variables:Time of day (e.g. 21:53:54); Day of year (e.g.118); Year (e.g. 86).
 These data were collected to support scientific research at AIMS. Data are made available on request to other researchers and to the public.
 Information about the sensors used and accuracy are in the metadata section on data quality.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
RV Investigator Voyage IN2023_V06 Carthe Drifter Data

This record describes the Carthe Drifter data from the Marine National Facility (MNF) RV Investigator voyage IN2023_V06, titled "Understanding Eddy Interactions and Their Impacts in the East Australian Current System." The voyage took place between October 9, 2023 and November 2, 2023 (AEST), departing from Sydney and returning to Sydney. Four carthe drifters were deployed near the Solitary and Richmond Canyons to characterise near-surface circulation associated with the East Australian Current. Drifter trajectories captured the strength and variability of surface flow and cross-shelf transport, providing Lagrangian observations of EAC-driven circulation and its influence on shelf–slope exchange.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
RV Investigator Voyage IN2023_V06 Microtops Sun Photometer Data

This record describes the Microtops Sun Photometer data from the Marine National Facility (MNF) RV Investigator voyage IN2023_V06, titled "Understanding Eddy Interactions and Their Impacts in the East Australian Current System." The voyage took place between October 9, 2023 and November 2, 2023 (AEST), departing from Sydney and returning to Sydney.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 07/2005 Video Mapping benthic ecosystems on the deep continental shelf and slope in Australia's "South West Region"

This dataset contains video mapping data collected on Southern Surveyor voyage SS 07/2005. The voyage took place off the Western Australian Coast during July August 2005.
Map data were collected successfully at all locations; map data were processed and products made on board; these were used to target photographic and sediment sampling. Initial map products are of extremely high quality and enable visualization of habitat features at a range of relevant spatial scales. There was a total of 223 sampling stations at 21 sites: 2 box cores, 16 stereo video and stills camera stations;  49 CTD casts; 107 smith macintyre grabs and 2 sherman sleds. Sediment and photographic data were taken successfully at virtually all planned stations at depths of 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 700 m and 1000 m (a few were lost to weather), and at several additional stations. Sub-samples from sediments were taken for geological analysis, faunal analysis, and stable isotope analysis. The quality of the video and still digital photographic data was very high; a wide variety of previously unseen seabed types and benthic animals were recorded.
This record relates to the video data collected on this voyage that was scored for dominant substrate, geomorphology, habitat structure and dominant fauna and databased. These data have been added to the data base BHIMAGE and the associated videos and still images have been archived as described in MarLIN record 14436 'Benthic Habitats Video Image Archive'.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Benthic Habitats Video Image Archive

Benthic Habitats Video Image Archive is an on-line repository of .avi files and still images (.jpg or .tiff) collected during a series of surveys by MNF and other vessels. The associated BHIMAGE data base records associated geo-location data and image annotations.

Image data (video and stills) in this collection are from deep continental shelf and upper slope benthic habitats. Image collection was enabled by the development of deep towed video systems since the late 1990's (Bax &amp; Williams 1999; Shortis et al. 2008).  An evolving but nonetheless standardized annotation methodology annotation physical structures (substrate and geomorphology) and biota has been used for surveys since 2000 (Kloser et al 2004). The data-base retains annotations in the original scoring schemes and translations between schemes including to the CATAMI classification scheme are documented.

Video and still-image data can be accessed via the AODN Portal (refer to link below), select "Observation Data", then "CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere", click on the "CMAR Instruments" and lastly: "CMAR Video Tows - all voyages", the image below illustrates how to reach this dataset. Note that this is subject to change when the CMAR tag is replaced by the new O&amp;A.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Tasmanian Seamounts Study 1997: Photographic Transects

This record describes the photographic transect survey data collected as part of the Tasmanian Seamounts Study undertaken by CSIRO Division of Fisheries in January 1997. Ten photographic transects were made from the base to pinnacle of 4 out of 14 seamounts in the survey area, approx. 100 km to the south of Tasmania, using a Photosea 2000 stereoscopic deepsea camera system, in water depths ranging from 2180 m to 714 m. The transects were typically oriented N-S and E-W on each seamount, with 2 transects replicated. Between 67 and 150 photos were taken per transect, at a mean range between photos of 27 m, at heights of 1 to 4 m off the bottom. The photographs were later assessed for percent cover by a range of bottom types, and for numbers of recognisable organisms of particular types. In 2008/09 the slide images were scanned and re-assessed for fauna and sediment types for comparison with image data collected on voyages SS11 / 2006 and SS2/2007. The image annotations collected for this project have been added to the data base BHIMAGE and the associated videos and still images have been archived as described in MarLIN record 14436 'Benthic Habitats Video Image Archive'.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
RV Investigator Voyage IN2025_V03 End of Voyage (EOV) Archive

This record describes the End of Voyage (EOV) data archive from the Marine National Facility (MNF) RV Investigator voyage IN2025_V03, titled "COAST‐k – Clean Ocean Air Sampling upwind of Tasmania ‐ kennaook." The voyage took place between April 29, 2025 and May 18, 2025 (AEST), departing from Hobart and returning to Hobart.

For further information please refer to the voyage documentation links.

Instruments used and data collected include:
Regular measurements:
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP; 75, 150 KHz), Cloud Condensation Nuclei counter (CCN), Disdrometer, Greenhouse Gas Analysers (Picarro, Aerodyne), Nephelometer, Ozone sensor, Radon sensor, Gravimeter, pCO2, Expendable Bathythermographs (XBTs), Fisheries Echosounder (EK80), Multibeam Echosounder (EM712, EM124, EM2040), Sub-bottom Profiler (SBP29), Weather Radar, Expendable Bathythermographs (XBTs).

Voyage-specific measurements:
Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM), Black Carbon sensor (Aethalometer), Mobility particle size spectrometer (MPSS), Multi-AXis Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometer (MAX-DOAS), Aerosol Aerodynamic Particle sizer (APS), Cloud Radar (BASTA), mini Micro-Pulse LIDAR (miniMPL), Micro Rain Radar (MRR), Neutral Cluster Air Ion Spectrometer (NAIS), Portable Ice Nucleation Experiment instrument (PINE), 
Radiosonde, Cloud and Aerosol Backscatter Lidar (RMAN), Seafloor Earthquake Measurement System (SEMS), Stabilised Platform, Mercury Analyser (Tekran), Trace VOC Mass Spectrometer (VOCUS), Water Vapor Radiometer (WVR), Water Isotope Picarro, Time of Flight Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ToF-ACSM), Volatility Hygroscopicity Tandem Differential Mobility Analyser (VH-TDMA).

The archive for the IN2025_V03 EOV raw data is curated by the CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC) in Hobart, with a permanent archive at the CSIRO Data Access Portal (https://data.csiro.au/), providing access to voyage participants and processors of the data collected on the voyage.

All voyage documentation is available electronically to MNF support via the local network. Applications to access voyage documentation by non-CSIRO participants can be made via data-requests-hf@csiro.au All processed data from this voyage are made publicly available through the MNF Data Trawler (in the related links)

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Quality Control of Airborne Gravity Data for Victoria and South Australia

In 2025, Sander Geophysics Limited (SGL) delivered airborne gravity data to Geoscience Australia for Victoria and South Australia. These notebooks summarize the quality control processes applied to this dataset.

Tags: Airborne Gravity, Gravimetrics, Positioning Australia, Published_External, Sander Geophysics Limited, quality control
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Geochemistry and origin of Gilmore gas, Adavale Basin, central Queensland

The origin of the Gilmore dry gas deposit is a combination of deep-sourced methane and wet gas associated with oil generation. The deep gas source is characterised by the high nitrogen content co-generated with isotopically heavy methane. Higher nitrogen contents (up to 20 mole%) occur along the eastern margin of the Lissoy Sandstone principal reservoir unit, supporting reservoir compartmentalisation.

Tags: Adavale Basin, EARTH SCIENCES, Gilmore gas field, Hydrogen Assessments, Published_External, isotopic composition, molecular compostion, natural gases
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
GIS dataset from Hydrogeology of the Darling River Drainage Basin 1995 map series

This product delivers, in a GIS accessible format, information from the Hydrogeology of the Darling River Drainage Basin map series (eCat records 18732 and 18733, Evans et. al., 1995a, 1995b). The dataset provides a summary of understanding and interpretation of groundwater systems in the Darling River Drainage Basin in the 1990’s, including those in the Condamine, Namoi and Gwydir and Darling alluvium systems. These maps were originally published in a hardcopy print format, with no accompanying GIS accessible data.



Tags: Condamine alluvium, Darling River alluvium, Deep dive projects, Delamerian Deep Dive, Groundwater hydrology, Gwydir alluvium, Namoi alluvium, Published_External, Resourcing Australia’s Prosperity, geology, groundwater salinity, groundwater systems, hydrogeology, water levels
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Opticomm Pty Ltd - Anticipatory Notice- 21 Jan 2026-Multiple

Opticomm Pty Ltd - Anticipatory Notice- 21 Jan 2026- Ref ED26/4370 for 4 project areas : 
Project Area	Service_Area_Identifier	Estimated_Completion_Date	Formatted_address	Latlong	ID	Contract signed	Notes

Unley 108	"108U"	31/01/2030	106 Unley Road Unley SA 5061 Australia	-34.946854, 138.606865	"1022"	18/12/2025	

Burswood Point	GSBP	23/02/2029	Belmont Park, Burswood WA 6100, Australia	 -31.942546, 115.892720	"1023"	18/12/2025	Address does not display within the SIP and needs to be updated once an address is available.

Bethanie Fremantle	BEFE	1/12/2027	8 Queen Victoria Street Fremantle WA 6160 Australia	-32.049310, 115.749760	"1024"	10/01/2026	

North Harbour Extension	NTHE	30/11/2030	Burpengary East QLD 4505 Australia	-27.134270, 153.008359	"1025"	12/01/2026	Address does not display within the SIP and needs to be updated once an address is available.


Tags: OptiComm Pty Ltd, SIP, Telecommunications, broadband, statutory infrastructure provider
Organization: SIP Register - OptiComm