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Coastalwatch: Coastal Condition Monitoring System - Sydney Harbour

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

Tags: Oceans | Coastal Processes | Beaches, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Erosion, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Intertidal Zone, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Longshore Currents, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Shoreline Displacement, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Shorelines, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Tidal Height, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Frequency, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Height
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Theme 2A: Effects of urban structures and associated activities.

Urban cities generate considerable potential for ecological disturbance leading to environmental degradation (Programme 2: Anthropogenic Disturbances of Coastal Habitats). In particular, there are problems for organisms on hard and soft substrata because of building jetties, seawalls, pilings, etc. Human disturbances include foraging for bait and food and disposal of wastes. The research to understand ecological changes due to these disturbances is time-consuming and long-term, particularly when experimental analyses of processes during disturbances are planned.
Predicting, measuring and interpreting impacts are hamstrung by poor sampling and analysis - often dictated by inadequate statutory requirements for Environmental Impact Statements. One major problem is that natural ecological assemblages of species vary enormously from time to time and place to place. Thus, even when undisturbed by people, ecological patterns are very different from place to place and change rapidly from time to time. 
A thriving coastal city needs massive infrastructure in terms of ports, seawalls, outfalls, etc. Building ports and airports, preventing coastal erosion by building sea-walls, creating recreational facilities such as marinas, swimming-pools and moorings for boats all create potential environmental problems. Among the most important are the loss and fragmentation of natural habitats and the creation of very different artificial habitats.
The Centre for Research on Ecological Impacts of Coastal Cities (EICC) has generated many scientific papers and theses from research projects on the effects of urban structures and associated activities.              The link to the URL provided in this record provides a link to this research.

Tags: Anthropogenic, Ecology, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Habitat, coastal habitat, urban structure
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Surveys of mangrove habitat impacted by oil spill incidents in Australia between 1970 and 1996

Field surveys to investigate the status of mangroves impacted by oil spills, were undertaken between December 1996 and April 1997. Nine sites were investigated, based initially on information supplied by the APPEA Research Working Group and the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. The site locations surveyed include: Torres Strait, Queensland; Cape Flattery, Queensland; Yorkeys Knob, near Cairns, Queensland; Botany Bay, Sydney, New South Wales; Parramatta River, Sydney, New South Wales; Spencer Gulf, South Australia; Cape Lambert, Western Australia; Johns Creek, Point Samson, Western Australia; Withnell Bay, Western Australia. These sites included most of the sites around the Australian coastine where mangroves had been affected by oil spills between 1970 and 1996.For each site measurements were made of tree and seedling condition, sediments were sampled for hydrocarbon analyses, an incident report was compiled using a standard format and information was collected on any prior studies conducted at each site (see Data Quality for further details).
 This research was a component of the project "Fate and effects of oil and dispersed oil on mangrove ecosystems in Australia" and was undertaken to provide a assessment of the longer term impacts of oil spills on mangrove habitat. The objectives of these surveys were:1) to assess damage to mangrove habitat, particularly deforestation, if any;2) to describe the status, recovery and recruitment of trees following the spill;3) to determine the current status of hydrocarbons in the sediments, and4) to systematically document the findings in standardised case study reports
 All sites, but one, were visited by the research team. The site near Port Pirie in Spencer Gulf was inaccessible at the time of the survey, and the team relied on data collected for the South Australian Department of Environment and Land Management.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Studies on the Metal-Containing Granules in the Mussels, Mytilus galloprovincialis and Velesunio angasi

Mussels were obtained from Cockburn Sound, WA; Derwent River Estuary, Tasmania and Copperfield Creek, NT from July 1993 to be used in a variety of experiments to test the hypothesis that metal-containing granules in the kidney of Mytilus galloprovincialis are used as a detoxification mechanism for excess zinc and to explore the validity of using the granules as a biomarker for excess zinc.  Velesunio angasi was also investigated.

Tags: 23 220001, 23 288011, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Bioaccumulation, Biosphere | Zoology | Mollusks, Mytilus galloprovincialis, Velesunio angasi, biomarker, granules, zinc
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Water Quality Sampling in Cockburn Sound, Western Australia from 1977 - 1981

This dataset contains water quality data from a uniform grid of sampling locations in Cockburn Sound and surrounding areas from 1977 to 1981.  This data was used to determine the eutrophic status of Cockburn Sound and reasons for this nutrient enrichment and phytoplankton response.  A PhD thesis was based on this data and the data formed a baseline for an ongoing monitoring program through to the present day.

Tags: Oceans | Water Quality | Conductivity, Oceans | Water Quality | Nutrients, Oceans | Water Quality | Oxygen, Oceans | Water Quality | Water Temperature, concentration_of_ammonium_in_sea_water, concentration_of_chlorophyll_a_in_sea_water, concentration_of_nitrate_plus_nitrite_in_sea_water, concentration_of_orthophosphate_in_sea_water, concentration_of_total_kjeldahl_nitrogen_in_sea_water, concentration_of_total_phosphorus_in_sea_water, depth, fractional_saturation_of_oxygen_in_sea_water, irradiance, sea_water_temperature, time
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Future Reef MAP - June 2013 (Northbound)

Data were collected as part of the FutureReef MAP project, a three-year project designed to monitor ocean chemistry along the entire length of the Great Barrier Reef. The Future Reef MAP project is funded by Rio Tinto Alcan and administered by the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, with an equal co-investment by CSIRO. The project is the first large-scale CO2 observing system established on the Great Barrier Reef using the Rio Tinto ship, RTM Wakmatha. The research is targeted at providing information on the CO2 uptake and the controls on ocean acidification change in the region. It is providing foundation data needed to assess the vulnerability of the GBR reefs to ocean acidification. This dataset contains quality controlled underway measurements of the fugacity of CO2, atmospheric pressure, and sea surface temperature and salinity. The data management and distribution of these data were supported by the CSIRO Carbon Collaboration Cluster and the Australian Coastal Ecosystem Facility.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - National Mooring Network - South Australia (SA) Coffin Bay Mooring

The SA Coffin Bay Mooring (IMOS platform code: SAM5CB) is one of four South Australian regional moorings designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in coastal ocean waters. The mooring is located at Latitude:-34.93, Longitude:135.01.

Tags: Biosphere | Microbiota | Plankton, Buoys | Moored Buoys, CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Current Meters/Profilers | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), Fluorometers, IMOS Platform | SAM5CB | Coffin Bay Mooring (M5), Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Alkalinity, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Carbon Dioxide, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Inorganic Carbon, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nutrients, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Fluorescence, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, acoustic_backscatter_intensity, adcp_correlation_magnitude, direction_of_sea_water_velocity, eastward_sea_water_velocity, heading, northward_sea_water_velocity, platform_pitch_angle, platform_roll_angle, quality_flag_for_adcp_percentage_good, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_pressure, sea_water_speed, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
A survey of the breeding seabirds and migratory shorebirds of the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia

A complete survey of the numbers and breeding stages of seabirds, resident and migratory shorebirds and raptors at the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, central west coast, Western Australia, was undertaken. One hundred and ninety two (192) islands, islets and rocks were surveyed over 21 days in December 2006.
Seabird nesting habitat was mapped in its entirety for those islands considered as significant breeding areas (i.e. Pelsaert Island, Leo Island) and estimates of both breeding and roosting seabirds were made for each island. Notes on the stage of breeding were also taken, and where applicable, eggs were measured and weighed for some species to
obtain breeding dates. Monitoring transects were established on West Wallabi and Pelsaert Islands to monitor longer term changes in the nesting density of the Wedge-tailed Shearwater Ardenna pacifica, Lesser Noddy Anous tenuirostris melanops, Common (Brown) Noddy Anous stolidus and Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscata. The Lesser Noddy transects
had been previously established by Fuller and Burbidge (1992), and were used again for comparative purposes.
We recorded 14 species of seabirds, 16 species of migratory shorebirds, three resident shorebirds and two raptors during this survey. Of these, 14 species of seabirds, three resident shorebirds and the two raptors were breeding. These breeding populations are considered significant in a regional and national context. Of the 192 islands surveyed, 148 (77%) had breeding seabirds.

Tags: Breeding, Field Surveys | Biological Surveys, Long-term Monitoring, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Birds, Seabirds, Shorebirds
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Marine Biological Survey of the Southern Kimberley, Western Australia.

This report describes the results of the first of three expeditions planned to the Kimberley to document the marine flora and fauna of the area. The expedition took place in November 1994 with the assistance of a grant from the National Estates Grant Program.Twenty-two stations were examined. Detailed notes are presented on the station locations and habitat types present. At each station seagrasses, algae, fish, and some invertebrate groups were collected and notes were made on mangroves in the area.Three areas of particular significance were found: the intertidal seagrass beds in the area of Sunday and Tallon Islands, which are the largest known for the Kimberley region; an extensive intertidal system which surrounds Montgomery Island with an area greater than 400 square kilometres; and a hypersaline lagoon on Macleay Island. These areas are described and the reasons for their significance detailed.This report provides an extensive section outlining the coastal geomorphology of the southern Kimberley islands, emphasising the unique intertidal terraces which trap water at low tide and have allowed the development of the seagrass systems at Sunday and Tallon Islands.There have been no published records of the marine algae which occur in the Kimberley. This report provides details of 72 species collected during the expedition. Coralline algae are poorly known and species in this group are currently being worked on taxonomically. Two genera commonly found during the trip are provisionally considered to be undescribed and two species are new records for Western Australia. Eight species of seagrasses were recorded from a total of 15 stations; the number of known localities at which the most common species occurs has been trebled.Two hundred thirty-two species of molluscs, 173 crustaceans, 24 polychaetes,and 197 species of fish were recorded. Potentially new species were found in several groups. Detailed collections were made of additional groups such as echinoderms. The first collections from the Kimberley were obtained of groups such as isopods and nemerteans.The taxonomy of many of the groups collected is poorly known. Material was obtained for specialists in particular groups in Australia and overseas. The material has been sorted and sent to the specialists for examination and determination of species. This work is complex and time consuming, so it has not been possible to provide identifications for this report. However, the material is currently being worked up and will be presented in the scientific literature when it has been completed.

Tags: Biosphere | Vegetation | Algae, Biosphere | Zoology | Corals, Biosphere | Zoology | Crustaceans, Biosphere | Zoology | Fish, Biosphere | Zoology | Mollusks, Fauna, Field Surveys | Biological Surveys, Flora, Land Surface | Geomorphology, Marine Features (Australia) | Kimberley Coast, WA, Marine Planning Regions (Australia) | North-west, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Mangroves, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Plants, Seagrass, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Seagrass, sediment and infauna - a comparison of Posidonia australis, Posidonia sinuosa and Amphibolis antarctica, Princess Royal Harbour, South-Western Australia. III. Consequences of seagrass loss

The study draws on the results of the studies described in metadata records (e3196ef0-e33c-11dc-97b4-00188b4c0af8 and 9c793960-e5af-11dc-a14a-00188b4c0af8) to demonstrate some of the effects of the loss of seagrasses to the total ecosystem.  The area of meadows of the three dominant seagrass species in Princess Royal Harbour in 1960 was compared to the area in 1998.

Tags: 63 617002, 63 617003, 63 618004, Amphibolis antarctica, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Biomass, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Primary Production, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Range Changes, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Plants, Posidonia australis, Posidonia sinuosa
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Radar - Cape Spencer HF ocean radar station (South Australia Gulfs, South Australia, Australia)

The Cape Spencer (CSP) HF ocean radar site (35.294 S, 136.879 E) is one of two HF ocean radars covering the area between Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Island.  The other HF ocean radar station is at Cape Wiles.  The HF ocean radar coverage is from the coast to beyond the edge of the continental shelf. 
The CSP HF ocean radar is a WERA phased array system with a 16-element receive array.  This radar operates at a frequency of 8.512 MHz, with a bandwidth of 33 KHz, a maximum range of 200 Km and a range resolution of 4.5 Km.  Azimuthally the radar covers a sweep 60 deg either side of a bore sight direction of 237 deg true east of north (approximately north by north-west).
Within the HF radar coverage area surface current radials are measured.  Data are also collected from which wind directions and significant wave height can be calculated.

Tags: Atmosphere | Atmospheric Winds | Surface Winds, Doppler Frequency, Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean, Marine Features (Australia) | Gulf St. Vincent, SA, Marine Features (Australia) | Spencer Gulf, SA, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Coral Reefs, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Eddies, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Upwelling, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Wind-driven Circulation, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Sea State, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Significant Wave Height, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Swells, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Frequency, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Length, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Period, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Spectra, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Speed/direction, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wind Waves, Oceans | Ocean Winds | Surface Winds, Physical Oceanography, Radiance Or Imagery | Radio Wave | Radio Wave, States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia, WERA HF Radar | Phased Array
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node 3.2.1 - Plume Characteristics (Field) - Field Trip 1

Plume Characterization:
The key objectives of Project 3.2:
(1) Characterize the physical/optical properties of sediment suspensions;
(2) Map the dredge-generated plume;
(3) Provide data to optimize and validate plume modelling;
(5) Assess the spatial and temporal variability (~10 years) of background suspended sediment loads using archived remote sensing data;
(6) To estimate the benthic light field with respect to TSS;
3D plume mapping was conducted over a 10 day period at Chevron’s Wheatstone dredging operation near Onslow Western Australia. Dredge plumes created by a cutter suction dredge were sampled from CSIRO vessel RV Linnaeus on voyage number LI2013_v25. 
Underway measurements were made using a ship mounted ADCP to measure vertical velocity profiles and backscatter intensity and DALEC that measured the spectral qualities of incoming and reflected sea surface light. Profile data were collected using LISST (particle size distributions), CTD (backscatter, temperature and salinity), Hydroscat, Hydrorad (light profiles, extinction coefficients , and scattering properties). Surface and bottom water samples were be collected at selected sites and analyzed  for particle size distributions and total suspended solids.

Tags: ADCP, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat, CDT, Chevron, Hydrorad, Hydroscat, LI2013_v25, LISST, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Sediment Transport, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Plants, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Turbidity, Oceans | Water Quality | Light Transmission, RV Linnaeus, Wheatstone, dredge plume mapping, dredging
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Purple Wrasse Commercial Fishery Data (2017/2018 to 2021/2022)

Purple wrasse (Notolabrus fuciola) commercial catch (in tonnes), commercial effort (in number of days fished), and commercial Catch Per Unit Effort (CPUE, in kg/day fished) by fishing season per NRE scalefish fishery fishing block for all gear types combined.
The dataset was provided by the Tasmanian Wild Fisheries Assessments team at IMAS.
Tasmanian wild fisheries stock assessments are conducted by the Fisheries and Aquaculture Centre of the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) on behalf of the Tasmanian Department of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE Tas). Under the Sustainable Marine Research Collaboration Agreement (SMRCA), IMAS conduct fishery assessments, provide expert management advice and undertake scientific research on Tasmanian fisheries issues for NRE Tas.

Tags: Notolabrus fuciola, Purple wrasse
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP TWQ Project 3.1.6 - Exploring trading in water quality credits as a cost-effective approach for managing water quality in the Great Barrier Reef, 2017-2019 (GU)

This project will scope opportunities for water quality credit trading, and develop trading frameworks for managing nitrogen and sediment along the Reef coast. The objective is to determine whether trading in water quality credits can cost-effectively offset emissions increases from future economic expansion, whilst ensuring that end-of-catchment pollution loads stay within designated nitrogen and sediment limits. The project will also estimate how revenues from credit trading could potentially stimulate rural economies and create jobs by incentivising innovative business opportunities.

Tags: National Environmental Science Programme Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Seaglider deployment in Tasmania off Bicheno (November 2009 - January 2010)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and biological parameters like for example dissolved oxygen and turbidity data measured by a Seaglider in the region of Bicheno (Tasmania).
The Ocean Gliders Facility (formerly known as the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)), located at the University of Western Australia manages Seagliders to monitor the boundary currents surroundings Australia.
The variables available in this dataset are:
Temperature, salinity, conductivity, density, pressure, chromophoric dissolved oxygen matter, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence and backscatter coefficient at 660nm.

Tags: CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM), Countries | Australia, Fluorometers, Glider, IMOS Node | Bluewater and Climate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Fluorescence, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Seaglider, States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania, concentration_of_coloured_dissolved_organic_matter, fluorescence_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_oxygen_in_sea_water, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_pressure, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature, volumetric_backscatter_coefficient
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network