AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Improving wetland management through First Nations' Knowledge and a spatial visualisation tool

As wetlands continue to decline, there is an urgent need to improve their management by following the guidelines of international programs. The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands requires assessing baseline conditions and monitoring, for which Earth Observations are powerful tools. However, spatial and temporal limitations require integrated co-management, incorporating First Nations&#39; Knowledge. We address three case studies with unique management challenges in Australia: invasive macrophytes in tropical Kakadu (Bininj/Mungguy Country), water extraction in subtropical Minjerribah-Terrangeri (Nunukul, Goenpul and Ngugi Country), and agriculture in semiarid Gwydir wetlands (Kamilaroi/Gamilaroi/Gomeroi/Gamilaraay Country). We utilise spatial imagery visualised with the Wetlands Insight Tool (WIT), which detects long-term changes (1988–2021), along with UAV imagery and First Nations’ Knowledge, to understand the baseline condition of the wetlands and the changes they are experiencing. This approach can support decision-making on the threats to address, the solutions to take, and the monitoring of the world’s remaining wetlands.

<b>Citation:</b> Adame, M.F., Kavehei, E., Dunn, B. <i>et al.</i> Improving wetland management through First Nations’ knowledge and a spatial visualisation tool. <i>Ambio </i>(2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02326-2

Tags: Cultural values, DEA – Digital Earth Australia, Earth system sciences, First Nations, Macrophyete invasion, Monitoring, Published_External, Water extraction, Waterholes, earth observation, remote sensing, traditional knowledge, wetlands
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
A Decade of Airborne Electromagnetic Surveying Lake Menindee (Australia) Under Varying Water Levels

Time domain airborne electromagnetic (AEM) surveying is a mature geophysical tool for imaging the Earth’s shallow subsurface. It produces images of the electromagnetic conductivity structure of the earth, down to depths of a few hundred metres. The AEM method is fast, with rotary-wing or fixed-wing aircraft acquiring data at speeds of 100- 300 km/hr, making it an ideal near-surface reconnaissance tool. The physics of the AEM method are sensitive primarily to the subsurface conductivity, which is influenced by a range of geological factors such as mineral content, porosity, and water content and chemistry. In addition, the inferred subsurface conductivity depends on the accurate measurement and modelling of airborne transmitter and receiver geometries – a challenging task given the speed of acquisition and variability of wind conditions during an acquisition flight. In this work, we present inferences of the subsurface conductivity over Lake Menindee, New South Wales, Australia, using data from test flights and various AEM systems over a ten-year period (2014-2024). The lake storage has varied dramatically over this time, and the test flights have coincided with both high and low water levels. While this difference in storage volume undoubtedly influences the near surface conductivity, a remarkably consistent interpretation of the regional geology is possible regardless of the hydrologic conditions. While the upper ten metres of the modelled depth sections exhibit the greatest time-variability in inferred electromagnetic conductivity, a definitive correlation with the lake water volume cannot be established. We also provide some information theoretic calculations for each inversion result to aid in their quantitative comparison. The implications of our study are that subtle, shallow, hydrogeological changes are difficult to image with repeat AEM overflights from different systems. Conversely, we establish that different AEM systems with minimal extra processing robustly image the regional geo-electric structure of the near surface, validated by known stratigraphy and associated geological information, as well as borehole conductivity logs.

<b>Citation:</b> Ray, A., A. McPherson, R. C. Brodie, et al. 2026. “ A Decade of Airborne Electromagnetic Surveying Lake Menindee (Australia) Under Varying Water Levels.” <i>Geophysical Prospecting </i>74, no. 4: e70171. <b>https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2478.70171</b>

Tags: AEM, EFTF – Exploring for the Future, Electrical and Electromagnetic Methods in Geophysics, Geophysics, Published_External, Resourcing Australia’s Prosperity, inversion
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Critical Mineral Educator Professional Development video

Recorded educator professional development session providing context for what critical minerals and strategic materials are, why they are important to Australia, and the relationship of elevation and surface geology to critical mineral and strategic material formation. The video provides a guided tutorial on how to use the Geoscience Australia data portal to explore Australian geography, geology, critical mineral and strategic material datasets.



This video compliments the student activity “Analysing Australian geology, topography, and critical minerals using online datasets” and provides a better understanding of critical minerals and strategic materials. Suitable for educators and senior secondary student audiences.

Tags: Education, Elevation, Minerals, Mining, OTHER EDUCATION, Published_External, critical minerals, datasets, educator professional development, educator professional learning, geography, geology, geoscience australia data portal, maps, strategic materials, surface geology, teacher professional development, teacher professional learning, topography
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Surficial Geology of Bunger Hills WMS

This web service provides access to surficial geology mapping for the Bunger Hills region of the Australian Antarctic Territory. It includes polygon layers that show surface materials such as glacial, periglacial and coastal deposits, exposed bedrock, lakes and persistent snow, along with framework and field site layers. The data is intended for geological interpretation and environmental analysis in a geographic information system. Mapping was completed at a nominal scale of 1:2,000. Data is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. Full dataset metadata is available via Geoscience Australia eCat record 150951: https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/150951

Tags: Earth Sciences, Published_External, WMS, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
A Common Ontology for Stable Isotope Data

A common ontology for stable isotope data has been created from a collaboration between the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Geoscience Australia (GA), the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) and the National Measurement Institute (NMI). These organisations also represent the principal custodians and generators of stable isotope data in Australia. The aim of this ontology is to facilitate the harmonisation and integration of disparate stable isotope datasets while retaining data integrity.

Environmental stable isotope data is commonly used to identify and trace processes and flows to understand natural, managed, and industrial systems. Environmental stable isotope data contributes to many disciplines and, as a result, has a high potential for re-use. However, due to the highly specialised analytical requirements, isotope measurements have remained nearly exclusively in the arena of research organisations. Harmonising data is difficult, datasets are complex and data volumes are growing at an exponential rate, with Geoscience Australia seeing a 550% increase in their geoscience data holdings from July 2018 to July 2024. There is a rapid uptick in tools that use ‘big data’ i.e. ‘Internet of Things’, ChatGPT, and which highlights the need to increase discoverability, accessibility and use of existing data, especially in the public sector. This common ontology for stable isotope data and associated metadata provides a methodology to harmonise stable isotope data across scientific domains and applications

This project received investment from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) as part of their Food Security Data Challenges program (https://doi.org/10.47486/DC103).

<b>Citation:</b> Nina Welti, Steph Hawkins, Kathryn Waltenberg, Cath Hughes, Jagoda Crawford, Yanfeng Shu, Regina Campbell, Alex Leslie, Athina Puccini, Christoph Gerber, Axel Suckow, Geoff Fraser, Lian Flick, A common ontology for stable isotope data, <i>Applied Geochemistry</i>, Volume 198, 2026, 106682, ISSN 0883-2927, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2026.106682.

Tags: ARDC Food Security, Data management and data science not elsewhere classified, Data models, Data quality, Data standards, Database systems, FAIR data, Isotope geochemistry, Published_External, Stable isotope data, big data, data delivery portal, ontology, storage and indexing
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Fiber Asset Management - Anticipatory Notice - Wentworth Point - 12 December 2025 (Declared 12 February 2026)

Fiber Asset Management - Anticipatory Notice given for Wentworth Point - 12 December 2025 Ref ED26/16878

PRJ0022240-5427B6EA 10-Dec-2025 3 Bennelong Pkwy, Wentworth Point NSW 2127, Australia FTTP 20-Mar-2026

Organization: SIP Register - Fiber Asset Management Pty Ltd
Fiber Asset Management - Anticipatory Notice - Sandringham - 12 December 2025 (Declared 12 February 2026)

Fiber Asset Management - Anticipatory Notice given for Sandringham - 12 December 2025 Ref ED26/16877

PRJ0022237-A10778E7 28-Nov-2025 13 George St, Sandringham VIC 3191, Australia FTTP 23-Feb-2026

Organization: SIP Register - Fiber Asset Management Pty Ltd
Translink PT Performance Dashboard

The Translink PT (Passenger Transport) performance dashboard is a digital resource that brings greater accessibility and visibility of performance on SEQ's public transport network.

The dashboard represents the SEQ area from the Sunshine Coast to the Gold Coast, and includes measures from on-time running, patronage, fines and warnings, passenger injuries, and 25 customer experience metrics.

Translink will continue to invest in data collection with new performance measures, regional areas and enhanced filtering features to be added in the future.

Tags: TMR, Transport
Organization: Transport and Main Roads
Fiber Asset Management - Declaration - Wentworth Point - 12 February 2026

Fiber Asset Management - Declaration given for Wentworth Point - 12 February 2026 Ref ED26/18968

PRJ0022240-5427B6EA 3 Bennelong Pkwy, Wentworth Point NSW 2127, Australia Completed FTTP N/A

Organization: SIP Register - Fiber Asset Management Pty Ltd
Telstra Payphones

This dataset contains the location of public payphones across Australia. Payphones are maintained by Telstra, and the dataset is routinely downloaded and updated from a public map developed and maintained by Telstra. 
Attribute information includes payphone phone number, street address, locality, state, postcode, latitude and longitude.

Tags: HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT-Structures-and-Facilities, HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT-Urban-Design, UTILITIES-Any
Organization: Tasmania Government's The List Data
Concentrations of four faecal steroid metabolites in scats of Weddell seals, Long Fjord, Vestfold Hills

This dataset contains steroid metabolite values found in faeces of Weddell seals in Long Fjord, Vestfold Hills. These data were collected from June to December of 2021.

Faecal hormone monitoring provides a non-invasive tool to investigate animal physiology. It can offer valuable insights about the reproductive status and condition of an animal. Steroid hormones are the main type of hormone excreted in faeces, and there are 4 different families of steroids that can be monitored. Details about these steroid groups, as well as information about the abbreviations and assays used in this study, are provided in the report available in the dataset download.

The goal of this project was to conduct an initial analysis of faecal hormone metabolites in wild Weddell seals.
The specific aims were:
1) Biochemically validate assays for monitoring faecal hormones (i.e., parallelism)
2) To the extent possible with the meta-data provided, attempt to biologically validate the assays
3) Describe seasonal changes in hormone concentrations
4) Examine sex differ

Faecal samples were collected opportunistically from Weddell seals in Antarctica from June – December 2021. Samples were extracted in Tasmania and extracts were shipped to La Trobe for analysis. Initial biochemical validation was conducted for each of the 4 steroid groups. For glucocorticoids, we tested 2 assays that measure different groups of glucocorticoid metabolites and selected the best one for subsequent analysis. Following the initial validation, all samples were analysed on all 4 assays. Graphical analysis was used to assess biological validation and examine patterns in the data.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > LONG FJORD, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > VESTFOLD HILLS, EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > ANIMAL SCIENCE > ANIMAL BREEDING AND GENETICS, EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > ANIMAL SCIENCE > ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CARNIVORES > SEALS/SEA L, ENZYMES, FAECES, FIELD SURVEYS > FIELD SURVEYS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, GRAB SAMPLERS, IMMUNOASSAY, LABORATORY > LABORATORY, REPRODUCTIVE HORMONES, STEROIDS, WEDDELL SEALS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
SO298 Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) Incubation

To investigate how the unavoidable physical and chemical perturbations associated with Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) could influence marine plankton communities and how potential side-effects compare to impacts of climate change, we conducted 19 ship-based experiments in the Equatorial Pacific, examining three prevalent OAE source (NaOH, olivine, and steel slag) and their impacts on natural phytoplankton populations. Our experiments simulated realistic and moderate alkalinity enhancements between 29-16 μmol kg-1. The monitored parameters included total chlorophyll-a concentrations, macro nutrients, trace elements, total alkalinity, Fv/Fm, pH,and flowcytometry.

Tags: Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP MaC Project 5.10 - Improving socio-ecological understanding of natural values in Australian Marine Parks

This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub project "Improving socio-ecological understanding of natural values in Australian Marine Parks". No public data outputs will be generated by this project.

Parks Australia (Australian Government) manage 60 Australian Marine Parks (AMPs) around the country, covering an area of 3.8 million square kilometres, or 43% of all Australian waters.

The approach to managing AMPs is set out in eight Management Plans, one for each of the five marine park networks (North, North-west, South-west, South-east and Temperate East) and one each for the Coral Sea Marine Park, Christmas Island Marine Park and Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park. A statutory review of Management Plans for the North, North-west, South-west, Temperate-East networks and the Coral Sea Marine Park is scheduled for 2028.

This project will progress the use of socio-economic information to support the management of and contribute to the review of Australian Marine Parks. It will build on previous research funded by the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) to redevelop socio-economic benchmarks to support Parks Australia’s new sentinel park approach and network scale reporting. The project will estimate changes in public awareness, attitudes, and usage patterns since a 2019/20 benchmark - crucial for the upcoming statuatory revoew of AMP Management Plans in 2028. The work will additionally contribute to the overall management effectiveness system by integrating socio-economic and natural values data, together with improved socio-ecological understanding, complementing NESP-led data synthesis projects (SS2, D7, 1.3, 4.20 and 4.21) at both Sentinel Park and Network scales.

Approach
 • A repeatable national knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) boat ramp survey will be redesigned based around a survey developed in NESP MaC Project D6. The survey will target recreational fishers and non-fishers who use AMPS around Australia, with nine survey locations to be selected in collaboration with Parks Australia.
 • A national general public survey will be redesigned to explore broader community views towards the AMP network, including attitudes to AMP management zones.
 • Surveys are likely to cover the Coral Sea, North, North-west, South-west, South-east and Temperate East networks.

Outputs
 •  Responses from recreational user surveys [dataset]. In accordance with National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research, only aggregated outputs will be made publicly available. Please contact the project leader (Matt Navarro) for further information.
•   Final technical report [written]

Tags: Australian Marine Parks, Management effectiveness, National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub, attitudes, human dimensions, socio-economic
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Abundance and distribution of coastal, inshore zooplankton in the Huon Estuary and D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania: Sampling trip 21/01/2005.

Mesozooplankton community composition and structure were examined throughout the D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Huon Estuary and North West Bay,  Tasmania, from November 2004 to October 2005, the data represented by this record was collected on the 21/01/2005.

The composition of the mesozooplankton community was typical of inshore, temperate marine habitats, with seasonally higher abundance in summer and autumn and lower numbers in winter and spring. Copepods were the largest contributors to total abundance across all seasons and stations, while cladocerans and appendicularians were proportionally abundant in spring and summer. The faecal pellets of these three main groups, along with those of krill and amphipods, also contributed significantly to material recovered from sediment traps. Meroplanktonic larvae of benthic animals showed short-term peaks in abundance and were often absent from the water column for long periods. Spatially, North West Bay and the Channel had a higher representation of typically marine species, including Calanus australis and Labidocera cervi, while truly estuarine species, such as the copepod Gladioferens pectinatus, were more important in the Huon Estuary.

Tags: Abundance, Grazing rates, Secondary productivity, Temperate Reef
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Analysis of giant crab brain lipofuscin data for age determination

Lipofuscin density in Giant Crab (Pseudocarcinus gigas) brain tissue was estimated through fluorescent microscopy. The intent was to relate lipofuscin to crab age.  Some known age specimens were included in the sample, these were reared from larvae.

Tags: 28 925001, Pseudocarcinus gigas, Tasmania, brain lipofuscin
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Developing a monitoring program for six key estuaries in North-West Tasmania: Montagu River

We implemented a monitoring program developed by Crawford and White (2006), which was designed to assess the current condition of six key estuaries in NW Tasmania: Port Sorell, the Leven, Inglis, Black, Montagu and Arthur River estuaries. This study considered a range of water quality and ecological indictors commonly used to monitor estuaries. These included: salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, pH, nutrients (nitrate + nitrite, dissolved reactive phosphorus and ammonia), silica molybdate reactive and chlorophyll a for the water column; chlorophyll a and macroinvertebrate community structure amongst the sediments. The data represented by this record was collected in Montagu River.

Tags: Abundance - benthic macroinvertebrates, Ammonia, Benthic macroinvertebrates, Chlorophyll a, Degradation, Dissolved oxygen, Human impact, Monitoring program, Nitrate plus Nitrite, Reactive phosphorus, Salinity, Silica, Temperate Reef, Temperature, Turbidity, pH
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Tracking of Short-tailed shearwaters

This record presents data collected from tagged and recaptured Short-tailed shearwaters (Puffinus tenuirostris), with data presented throughout the Southern Ocean. The study was initially conducted on Wedge Island (43 km2), southern Tasmania (43o 07' S, 147o 40' E). Fifty geolocation archival (GLS) tag deployments were made on 34 adult birds in the pre-laying exodus (n = 18), incubation (n = 12) and early chick-rearing (ECR) phases (n = 20). In 2012, 12 birds were tracked during the pre-laying exodus. GLS tags were deployed between the 10th and the 18th of October.  Ten birds were tracked from Wedge Island (as in 2010) and 2 were tracked from Whalebone Point, Bruny Island (43.44 South, 147.23 East; birds 22 and 80).

Tags: Continents | Antarctica, Countries | Australia, Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean, Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean, Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean, Marine Features (Australia) | Bass Strait, TAS/VIC, Marine Features (Australia) | Great Australian Bight, SA/WA, Marine Seabirds, Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology), Offshore Islands (Australia) | Macquarie Island, Regional Seas | Tasman Sea, States, Territories (Australia) | New South Wales, States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania, States, Territories (Australia) | Victoria, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia, Tags and Tracking Devices, Wildlife and Habitat Management
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
CSIRO-Mk3-6-0 model output prepared for CMIP5 rcp45

rcp45 is an experiment of the CMIP5 - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5
(http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip5/). CMIP5 is meant to provide a framework for coordinated
climate change experiments for the next five years and thus includes simulations for
assessment in the AR5 as well as others that extend beyond the AR5.

4.1 rcp45 (4.1 RCP4.5) - Version 1: Future projection (2006-2100) forced by RCP4.5. RCP4.5 is a representative concentration pathway which approximately results in a radiative forcing of 4.5 W m-2 at year 2100, relative to pre-industrial conditions. RCPs are time-dependent, consistent projections of emissions and concentrations of radiatively active gases and particles.

Experiment design: http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip5/docs/Taylor_CMIP5_design.pdf
List of output variables: http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip5/docs/standard_output.pdf
Output: time series per variable in model grid spatial resolution in netCDF format
Earth System model and the simulation information: CIM repository

Entry name/title of data are specified according to the Data Reference Syntax
(http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip5/docs/cmip5_data_reference_syntax.pdf)
as activity/product/institute/model/experiment/frequency/modeling realm/MIP table/ensemble
member/version number/variable name/CMOR filename.nc.

Tags: 0399 - Other Chemical Sciences, 0401 - Atmospheric Sciences, 0405 - Oceanography, 0406 - Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience, Atmospheric Sciences, National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), Oceanography, Other Chemical Sciences (Environmental Chemistry), Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network