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Marine Life of the Dampier Archipelago - WA Museum / Woodside

Between 1998 and 2000 a partnership between the Western Australian Museum and Woodside Energy Ltd. was formed to survey and collect the marine flora and fauna of the Dampier Archipelago. Techniques employed during the surveys of the Dampier Archipelago included SCUBA diving, shore collecting, dredging, underwater photography of living specimens and video recording of the ocean floor, which resulted in the recording of more than 4 500 species, including 268 new to science.  Many publications resulted from this survey and a website was created to distribute this valuable information.

Tags: Biosphere | Vegetation | Algae, Biosphere | Zoology | Corals, Biosphere | Zoology | Crustaceans, Biosphere | Zoology | Echinoderms, Biosphere | Zoology | Fish, Biosphere | Zoology | Mollusks, Biosphere | Zoology | Sponges, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Habitat
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 1.1.3 - Ecological connectivity of Kimberley marine communities (ECU - AIMS)

The overarching objective is to infer the routine distances of dispersal and patterns of connectivity among key populations within the Kimberley. Nine sub-projects will address this objective. The data provided by these methods are complimentary, and each improves the others. The projects and objectives can be summarised as:
- Existing samples and desktop study
- Genetic analyses
- Coral stock-recruitment and larval durations
- Fish otolith microchemistry
Genotypes data have been generated from seven marine organisms:
1. Tectus niloticus - gastropod (CSIRO)
2. Pomacentrus milleri - fish (CSIRO)
3. Lutjanus carponotatus - fish (CSIRO)
4. Halophila ovalis - seagrass (ECU)
5. Thalassia hemprichii - seagrass (ECU)
6. Isopora brueggmanni - coral (AIMS)
7. Acropora aspera - coral (AIMS) 
There is a CSIRO metadata record that describes data for Tectus niloticus; Pomacentrus milleri and Lutjanus carponotatus (http://www.marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/search#!0d389dab-d6e2-4895-ba09-389e689b565e)

Tags: Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Population Dynamics, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Species Recruitment, Biosphere | Zoology | Corals, Genotype and micro-satellite markers with location data, Oceans | Marine Biology | Fish
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP TWQ Project 1.6 - Multiple and cumulative impacts on the GBR: assessment of current status and development of improved approaches for management, 2015-2016 (AIMS)

This project will synthesize experimental and field data from NERP, MTSRF and other work for key coral reef organisms and processes to produce a quantitative approach or how multiple pressures lead to cumulative impacts on the GBR. Applying quantitative tools developed for ecotoxicology and water quality guidelines, we will investigate critical interactive effects, environmental thresholds and their uncertainties, and their application in risk assessments. In addition, we will develop a roadmap that clearly articulates the steps towards a management framework to assess and manage the cumulative impacts of multiple local stressors within the context global pressures on the GBR.

Tags: National Environmental Science Programme Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Protected Marine Species of the Gorgon Gas Development EIS/ERMP-Technical appendix C6

In order to assist with the assessment of the environmental implications of this venture, ChevronTexaco engaged RPS Bowman Bishaw Gorham to conduct a literature review of protected marine species occurring within the proposed development area. This report describes the results of the literature review, combined with opportunistic field observations recorded as part of the marine ecological surveys.
More than one hundred protected marine species have been identified as occurring, or likely to occur, in the waters surrounding Barrow Island.
Protected fish and invertebrate species are known, or likely, to occur in both the nearshore and offshore waters surrounding Barrow Island. The habitats which they occupy are generally widespread throughout the Pilbara region. There are no known features in the proposed development area or surrounds to suggest that significant concentrations would be expected to occur.
Humpback whales generally are likely to rest occasionally around Flacourt Bay and Double Island (sighted on occasions) and pass through the region seaward of Barrow Island on their annual migration between the Southern Ocean and the Kimberley. Their northern migration is broadly centered on the 200 m bathymetric contour, and they are likely to pass through the area around the Gorgon gas field.
The southern migration of adults and calves tends to be more inshore and some use inshore areas such as the area near Flacourt Bay and Double Island to rest. Other whales and deep water dolphins that occur off the northwestern Australian coast that may occur in the survey area tend to have widely dispersed populations and there are no known features in the survey area or surrounds that suggest that significant concentrations would be expected within the development area.
Barrow Island is an important feeding and nesting area for sea turtles, primarily flatback turtles on the east coast and green turtles on the west coast.
KEYWORKS: Gorgon Gas Development, Barrow Island, EIS/ERMP, Protected Marine Species, EPBC Act, marine mammals, fish, turtles

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Larval dispersal in two common lineages of the coral Pocillopora damicornis on the Great Barrier Reef

Coral recruits were sampled from 20 pre-conditioned, unglazed, terracotta tiles, deployed at each of four sites around Lizard Island in the Northern Great Barrier Reef (GBR), and four sites around Orpheus and Pelorus Islands in the Palm Islands group in the central GBR. Tiles were scattered haphazardly over an area approximately 100 m², at a depth of three to nine metres, and represented a total settlement surface area of 0.572 m². Tiles were recovered, sampled for coral recruits, cleaned and redeployed roughly every three months from May 2009 until May 2010 at Lizard Island sites, and every two months until May 2011 at Palm Islands sites. In February 2011, a category five tropical cyclone, TC Yasi, hit the Palm Islands and destroyed the windward sites (NE Orpheus and NE Pelorus). All tiles at these exposed sites were lost, thus the last sampling was in early December 2010.Each census and sampling of coral recruits was done under a dissecting microscope by systematically scanning all sides and edges of each tile. Pocilloporid recruits were identified visually. Recruits sampled were photographed, snapped off tiles using a scalpel and stored in absolute ethanol until genetic processing.DNA of coral recruits was extracted and samples were tested with a rapid genetic assay to distinguish Pocillopora damicornis from other pocilloporid recruits and to determine their respective lineage. Samples identified as Pocillopora damicornis Type alpha and beta were genotyped at nine microsatellite markers using themultiplex groups, primers and protocols described in (Torda et al. 2013).Measures of larval dispersal in two lineages of P. damicornis, Type alpha and beta (Schmidt-Roach et al. 2013) from the Great Barrier Reef were inferred by comparing microsatellite genotypes betweeb the recruits and adult populations on the GBR (Torda et al. in review: Revisiting the connectivity puzzle of the common coral Pocillopora damicornis). Individual-based population genetic statistics were used to compare genotypic data of recently settled coral recruits to those of adults in the same population, in order to overcome the issue of cumulative and multi-generational patterns of connectivity when adult populations are the only group considered.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Tuna-Led Sustainable Development in the Pacific: WORKING PAPER

This record describes, and links to a working paper published through the Economics and Environment Network at The Australian National University in Canberra.

The paper reviews the importance of tuna fisheries in the western and central Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and examines whether current and proposed economically focussed institutional mechanisms, that underpin tuna management, are sufficient to promote appropriate and long term tuna-led development. Substantial potential gains are shown to exist from co-operation in terms of tuna management, but it seems highly unlikely such benefits will be realised in the short or medium term despite the formation in 2004 of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission. Even if gains from co-operation were to be realised, without substantial improvements in the institutional quality and capacity of many PICs the tuna fisheries might still fail to sustain the regions long-term development. The studys implications are that the twin development priorities in the region should be support for social infrastructure, especially capacity building to increase the effectiveness of the public sector, and the promotion of co-operative approaches to ensure the sustainability and profitable use of the region's shared fishery resources.

Tags: 37441002, 37441011, Big-eye tuna, Governance, Pacific Island Countries (PICs), Resource rents, Sustainable development, Yellow-fin tuna
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
RAN CTD Profile Data - HMAS MERMAID ProjectID: HI518MER_M From: 2012-03-08 To: 2012-04-01

This dataset contains quality controlled vertical profiles of pressure, temperature and salinity measured by a Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) probe. The dataset contains 25 CTD profiles (casts) obtained during RAN Hydrographic Survey cruise HI518MER_M from HMAS MERMAID.
The CTD was manufactured by Applied Microsystems Limited and is the "Micro CTD" model. This CTD type is referred to operationally as the MVP200_CTD. This CTD is fitted with a 4 electrode platinized conductivity cell, thermistor temperature sensor and a semiconductor strain gauge pressure sensor.
The CTD sensors are calibrated at the manufacturer Applied Microsystems Limited on a 12-18 month schedule. The CTD temperature sensor is calibrated against 'Hart' temperature standards. The pressure sensor is calibrated using 'Budenburg Deadweight' standards. The conductivity sensor is calibrated using 'Hart' temperature standards and seawater samples of known conductivity.
The CTD sensors are mounted to a fish-shape probe. The probe is controlled by an electric winch (MVP200 type). For downcasts the fish is allowed to free-fall (winch is in 'free-wheel' mode) under its own weight at about 2-3 ms-1 and then is winched back. Data is recorded in downcast and usually in upcast direction at a sampling rate of 25 Hz. The downcast data is of higher quality because sensors encounter undisturbed seawater that flows through the nose of the fish. On the upcast the fish is flipped around (tail first) and the sensors in the nose encounter disturbed flow from the fish tail.
This type of CTD is prone to a phenomenon called 'salinity spiking' caused by a mismatch between the response times of the temperature and conductivity sensor. Data undergoes a salinity de-spiking routine to correct for this. See the history metadata for further details on the salinity de-spiking process.
Raw CTD pressure data is not always monotonic due to transient up/down motion of winch/ship. Raw pressure data is subsetted to give a monotonic (increasing) sequence and then linearly interpolated to 1 decibar pressure intervals. Data is then flagged with quality control flags after visual inspection and comparison to average climatology and historical CTD casts.

Tags: Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, sea_water_practical_salinity, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP TWQ Project 3.1.1 - Implementation of the Crown of Thorns research strategy: regional strategies, 2017-2019 (CSIRO)

Crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) management requires decisions be made about where to invest control effort in order to achieve regional scale objectives, e.g. to modify COTS spread or to facilitate coral recovery. However, no objective basis for choosing sites exists, beyond their economic importance, meaning that achieving these important goals is largely left to chance. This project will leverage past and current research to develop a decision support framework to assist in prioritizing reefs for control and for assessing alternative strategies by integrating the full range of ecological and management information available. Field and desktop research will also be conducted to fill critical knowledge gaps and to assess the prospects of new control technologies.

Tags: National Environmental Science Programme Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Coral Sea - Lexington Seamount - Geomorphology and Surface Classification

Voyage IN2019_V04 contributed an additional 29,000 kms2 of seafloor survey data to the Coral Sea knowledge base. From this new bathymetric data individual seamounts have been extracted and have been classified to the Geoscience Australia Geomorphology Classification Scheme. This dataset contains two layers representing the classification layers- 1) Surface (Plain, Slope, Escarpment) and 2) fine scale Geomorphology of the seamount for the Lexington Seamount.
Ongoing research with this survey data will provide new insights into the detailed geomorphic shape and spatial relationships between adjacent seabed features. This information will be released in future publications to show the potential of how the scale of such seafloor data can be used for predictive habitat modelling when analysed with the biological data overlays.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Deep Water Moorings - Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) Sub-Facility, Pulse 7 Mooring (Sept 2010 - Apr 2011)

The Pulse 7 mooring was deployed from 9 September 2010 to 29 April 2011 at Lat -46.93, Lon 142.26. Data are now available in netCDF format.
Moored instruments are deployed by the Southern Ocean Time Series sub-facility for time-series observations of physical, biological, and chemical properties, in the Sub-Antarctic Zone southwest of Tasmania, with twice-yearly servicing. 
These time-series observations are crucial to resolving ecosystem processes that affect carbon cycling, ocean productivity and marine responses to climate variability and change, ocean acidification and other stresses.

Tags: Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean, IMOS Facility | Deep Water Moorings, IMOS Platform | PULSE7 | Pulse 7 Mooring, Oceans | Marine Biology, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Heat Budget, Oceans | Ocean Temperature, Oceans | Ocean Waves, Oceans | Ocean Winds, Solid Earth | Geochemistry | Biogeochemistry, acceleration, tension, voltage
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
State boundary area of the Australia continental shelf (including Lord Howe Island) [for NESP D3]

The state boundary area of the Australia continental shelf (including Lord Howe Island). The coastline is at Lowest Astronomical Tide (LAT) and the shelf break is defined by the 200 m isobath taken from Geoscience Australia's GA 2009 bathymetric dataset.

Tags: coastline, continental shelf
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
2016 SoE Marine Chapter - State and Trends - Sea snakes

The Marine chapter of the 2016 State of the Environment (SoE) report incorporates multiple expert templates developed from streams of marine data. This metadata record describes the Expert Assessment "The state and trends of quality of species and groups – sea snakes". The full Expert Assessment, including figures and tables (where provided), is attached to this record. Where available, the Data Stream(s) used to generate this Expert Assessment are accessible through the "On-line Resources" section of this record.

DESCRIPTION OF ECOLOGICAL PROCESS FOR EXPERT ASSESSMENT
Assessing the status of sea snakes is a priority based on evidence of significant declines in some populations (e.g., Guinea 2007, 2013, Lukoschek et al. 2007, 2013). Australia has approximately 32 sea snake species, more than half of global diversity, including 13 endemic species. Sea snakes occur in a variety of shallow-water marine habitats in northern Australia, including estuaries, reefs, soft-sediment habitats, and seagrass meadows. Two endemic species are listed as Critically Endangered under the EPBC Act and IUCN Red List, a further two endemics listed as Endangered and Near Threatened by IUCN have not been assess under the EPBC Act.
DATA STREAM(S) USED IN EXPERT ASSESSMENT
• Data primarily collected from an expert panel of sea snake researchers and marine resource managers during an IUCN Sea Snake Specialist Group Red List workshop in February 2009.
• Updated status of sea snake populations from coastal WA and off-shore Timor Sea Reefs obtained from reports and publications by Michael Guinea, Vimoksalehi Lukoschek, Blanche D’Anastasi and Kate Sanders
2016 SOE ASSESSMENT SUMMARY [see attached Expert Assessment for full details]
Status and trends within the Australian EEZ are largely unknown but likely to vary between species and bioregions. Species have almost disappeared from Ashmore Reef, Timor Sea, the reasons for which are unknown.
CHANGES SINCE 2011 SOE ASSESSMENT
Largely agrees with 2011 SOE assessment with the addition of the declines reported from the NW Shelf.

Tags: expert assessment, population status, sea snakes
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Securing WAs Marine Futures Project - Biodiversity sampling - Research trawls

Research Trawls were conducted on soft sediment communities. These trawls collect specimens and thus provide information on species diversity, abundance and provide specimens for biological studies on rare specimens. Specimens were processed and lodged by experts from the WA Museum and the WA Department of Fisheries.
Study areas include Abrolhos Islands, Jurien Bay, Rottnest Island, Capes / Geographe Bay, Broke Inlet, Point Ann, Middle Island.

Tags: Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Wind statistics at Governor Head Meteorological Station, Jervis Bay for the Autumn period between March 1989 and May 1989

This dataset is a component of the 'Jervis Bay Baseline Studies' project conducted by the Department of Defence, CSIRO and the Australian Defence Force Academy.
The meteorological station (35.133S, 150.762E) recorded winds and atmospheric pressure at Governor Head (Jervis Bay). The site is several hundred metres inland of 50m high cliffs and is 63m above sea-level.
This record provides wind statistics for the Autumn period between March 1989 to May 1989. Individual measurements have been converted so that trends of wind speed and direction can be seen for the season. The station initially recorded wind data at 10 minute intervals throughout the duration of the experiment.
This is one of thirty-six child records that relate to the parent, 629051e0-2b7b-11dd-a343-00188b4c0af8. A pdf outlining the structure and hierarchy of all metadata records relating to the 'Jervis Bay Baseline Studies' project is available to download through this record. Meteorological data was collected to investigate wind forced circulation in Jervis Bay, NSW.

Tags: Atmosphere | Atmospheric Winds | Surface Winds, date, time, wind_from_direction, wind_speed
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Vincent-Enfield seabed biodiversity

Both desktop reviews and field surveys were undertaken to elaborate the biodiversity issues that may need to be considered during petroleum exploration and devlopment activites in permit area WA-271-P. This area is approximatley 35km north-northwest of the Cape. Two field surveys, in march 2001 and 2002 sampled seabed biota in depths bewteen 50-1000m, from the permit area shorewards towards the Murion Islands. The 2001 survey collected and lodged 778 voucher specimens with the WA Museum. The 2002 survey revisited the same area, but focussed on ground truthing a seabed hardness map produced by Fugro, to elucidate the complex spatial patterns of bottom hardness and variation in biota that were observed in the first survey. A total of 6 reports were lodged

Tags: Biodiversity, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat, Field Surveys | Biological Surveys, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Habitat, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Oceans | Ocean Acoustics | Acoustic Scattering
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Exploring Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems of Australia’s Northwest Shelf (Ashmore Reef)

Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (MCEs) are recognised for their economic and ecological value, and as potential refugia for shallow reefs affected by climate change. Focussing on submerged shoals of Australia&rsquo;s Northwest shelf, we will trial data-capture methods and technologies for effective baseline characterisation of MCEs, providing a foundation for developing new sampling and analysis approaches for future monitoring, and enabling standardisation and comparability of MCE data globally.
Biodiversity collections will ground-truth benthos classification from images, as well as providing material to study ecological processes including reproduction and connectivity. In combination, the outcomes will provide visibility and new insights to the diversity, ecology and importance of mesophotic reefs to ecosystem integrity of Australia&rsquo;s Northwest Shelf, but also contribute to the development and accessibility of novel approaches to monitor and protect MCEs globally.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Determining the ecological health of estuaries in North-Western Tasmania: Montagu River

This study considered a range of water-column and sediment (benthos) based variables commonly used to monitor estuaries,utilising estuaries on the North-West Coast of Tasmania (Duck, Montagu, Detention, and Black River). These included: salinity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, nutrient and chlorophyll a levels for the water-column; and sediment redox, organic carbon content, chlorophyll a and macroinvertebrate community structure amongst the benthos. In addition to comparing reference with impacted estuaries, comparisons were also made across seasons, commensurate with seasonal changes in freshwater river input, and between regions within estuaries (upper and lower reaches) - previously identified in Hirst et al. (2005). This design enabled us to examine whether the detection of impacts (i.e. differences between reference and impacted systems) was contingent on the time and location of sampling or independent of these factors. The data represented by this record was collected in the Montagu River.

Tags: Abundance - macroinvertebrates, Ammonium, Benthic macroinvertebrates, Chlorophyll a, Degradation, Dissolved oxygen, Human impact, Nitrate and Nitrite, Number of species - macroinvertebrates, Reactive phosphorus, Salinity, Sediment organic carbon, Temperate Reef, Temperature, Turbidity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network