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SES Local Flood Insights: Hawkesbury-Nepean River

<b>NSW SES Local Flood Insights provides information about flooding in NSW communities.</b>

This tool offers an overview of flood-prone areas, historic flood events, and modelled flood risks through detailed maps, data and community stories. This website-based platform combines flood inundation mapping, photos and personal accounts from local residents about the impacts of past floods and ways to prepare for future floods. 

This information is useful to community members, travellers, or anyone wanting to learn more about local flooding. Explore NSW SES Local Flood Insights to make informed decisions about flood safety and preparedness. These local flood insights have been produced to help people understand and visualise flood risks within the Snowy River catchment and to support readiness of communities.

<b>This is an information tool only and not to be relied upon during a flood event or flood emergency. </b>

<b>For the latest information and warnings during a flood event or flood emergency, including evacuation information, please visit the </b><a href="https://www.ses.nsw.gov.au/"> <b>NSW State Emergency Service website</b> </a><b>, or download the Hazards Near Me app on </b><a href="https://apps.apple.com/au/app/hazards-near-me-nsw/id370891827"> <b>Apple</b> </a><b> and </b><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.gov.nsw.rfs.firesnearme.nsw&amp;hl=en_AU"> <b>Android</b> </a><b>.<i> </i></b>

Tags: Hawkesbury-Nepean River, Local Flood Insights, NSW SES
Organization: Spatial Services (DCS)
Activities and Preferences of Residents of the GBRWHA (NERP TE 10.2, JCU and The Cairns Institute)

This data set in excel sheet format presents results of the mail survey of 1565 residents of the GBRWHA. The dataset is accompanied by a set of 58 maps that illustrate key findings. 

Project 10.2 explored how visitors and residents feel towards and perceive Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, as well as their willingness to pay to protect the reef and their satisfaction with current and future developments in and around the GBRWHA.   

Data were collected from the residents of the GBRWHA using a mail-out survey to a geographically stratified random sample of resident households in postcodes that lay partially or entirely within the study area. The pilot stage included 230 randomly selected households (2 from each of the postcodes identified), while the main mailing included about 40 households in each postcode. Following the Dilman (2007) methodology, we sent a reminder letter with replacement questionnaire to those who had not responded four weeks later, with a third reminder after that. We estimate that just under 4,000 questionnaires reached their intended recipients, and we received 902 completed questionnaires.

We were cognizant that some demographic groups are more likely to respond to mail-out surveys than others in these regions (e.g. young males, Indigenous people).  Therefore we conducted supplementary face-to-face data-collection using the same questionnaire, across various public locations such as ferry terminals, airports and beaches. These extra activities generated an additional 663 responses, bringing the total number of completed resident questionnaires to 1565.

Data Format:

Excel data sheet with each row representing a postcode within the Great Barrier Reef Catchment Area and each column providing summary information about one variable (e.g. % or respondents who have never been to the GBRWHA).  The GIS maps represent the data visually (one variable per map, showing responses for each postcode).

The original raw data cannot be published for privacy reasons. Data available here is a public form of the data, aggregated by postcode.

Further details of the project, including data collection and analysis methods, can be found in:

Stoeckl, N., Farr, M. and Sakata H. (2013) What do residents and tourists ‘value’ most in the GBRWHA? Project 10.2 interim report on residential and tourist data collection activities including descriptive data summaries. Report to the National Environmental research program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairn (pp112)

Tags: marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Macreadie Seagrass Bathymetry 2015 (4499/20150044S)

The Macreadie Seagrass bathymetry survey was acquired by Deakin University Marine onboard the Motor Vessel Yolla over two days in 2015 (09/12/2015-10/12/2015) using a Kongsberg EM2040c.

Not to be used for navigational purposes

Tags: AusSeabed, Bass Strait (Great Australian Bight), Bathymetry, EARTH SCIENCES, MV Yolla, Marine, Published_External, multi-beam echosounders
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP D3 Hunter Marine Park Bathymetry 2019 (20190061S)

Gridded multi-beam echousounder (MBES) bathymetry data for Hunter Marine Park acquired using NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment MBES system aboard RV Bombora for the National Environmental Science Program (NESP Biodiversity Hub). Fieldwork was funded, both cash and in-kind, by NSW DPIE and NESP in Year 1 (2015) and 4 (2018) of the D3 Project. Initial surveys (2015) were exploratory as long-lines across the inner Special Purpose Zone (trawl) over the continental shelf with later surveys (2018) focused on 100% coverage over areas previously identified as containing the Key Ecological Feature ‘Continental Shelf Reef’. Reports by Davies et al (2016) 'Mapping Shelf Rocky Reef Habitats in the Hunter Commonwealth Marine Reserve', National Environmental Science Program Biodiversity Hub D3 Project –Evaluating and monitoring the status of marine biodiversity assets on the continental shelf; and Williams et al (2020) 'Mapping and characterising reef habitat and fish assemblages of the Hunter Marine Park', Project D3- Preparing for and implementing monitoring of CMR’s and the status of marine biodiversity assets on the continental shelf, Milestone Report December 2020; detail these MBES surveys as well as towed underwater video and BRUVs, to characterise seabed habitats, fish and sessile invertebrate assemblages of the Hunter Marine Park. Reports are available at https://www.nespmarine.edu.au/publications. Survey sites for focused mapping in 2018-19 were 1) 3-6 NM east and south-east of Seal Rocks - Sugarloaf Point, 2) Outer Gibber - a feature in 20-60m of water north-east of Broughton Islands and ~3-4 NM from shore and 3) 3-7 NM east to north-east of Broughton Island.

Not to be used for navigational purposes

Tags: AusSeabed, Bathymetry, EARTH SCIENCES, Marine, Published_External, RV Bombora, Tasman Sea, multi-beam echosounders
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Raised features on the Australian continental shelf and Lord Howe Island shelf derived and aggregated from Australian Hydrographic Service's (AHS) depth area features in the 1 degree S57 file series [for NESP D3]

Raised features were derived by aggregating and dissolving the boundaries of the 1 degree S57 file series for the Australian continental shelf and Lord Howe Island shelf (200 m) depicting depth area features. An algorithm was applied to the data that isolated these features from surrounding lower features or plains.

Tags: COASTLINE, INTERTIDAL
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Changes in seagrass coverage in Cockburn Sound, Western Australia between 1967 and 1999

Changes in seagrass coverage in Cockburn Sound from 1967 to 1999 were assessed from aerial photographs using modern mapping methods with the aim of accurately determining the magnitude of change in hectares of seagrasses between 1967 and 1999.

Tags: 63 605002, 63 617002, 63 617003, 63 617008, 63 618001, 63 618004, 63 618005, 63 619004, Amphibolis antarctica, Amphibolis griffithii, Benthic habitat, Halophila ovalis, Heterozostera tasmanica, Posidonia australis, Posidonia coriacea, Posidonia sinuosa, Syringodium isoetifolium
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Surface Mass Balance Loading in Antarctica 1979 - 2022

The purpose of this study is to evaluate performance of seven different SMB estimates by using GPS vertical deformation timeseries.

Data contain the information on elastic displacements at GPS sties in Antarctica from 1979 to 2022, derived from seven SMB products namely RACMO2.4p1 (11 km spatial resolution, monthly temporal resolution), RACMO2.3p2 (27 km, monthly), a downscaled version of RACMO2.3p2 (2 km, monthly), MAR v3.11 (35 km, monthly), GEMB (10 km, monthly), HIRHAM5 (12.5 km, monthly) and MERRA-2 (12.5 km, 5 days). 

We generated the SMB mass variability time series spanning 1980-2022 by first computing, for each SMB model, the SMB anomalies from the long-term mean SMB computed over 1980-2022. The resulting SMB anomalies were cumulatively summed, detrended, and bilinearly interpolated onto a common regular grid of 2 km resolution. A uniform land mask (Mosaic of Antarctica version 2), defining the extent of the grounded ice sheet (including the offshore islands), was applied to the grid after resampling to the same 2 km resolution.

We computed elastic displacements derived from each of these SMB models by converting the detrended SMB mass anomalies at each location and time into arrays of cylinders defined with 1 km radius and a height representing the equivalent ice mass. These arrays were subsequently input into the Regional ElAstic Rebound calculator (REAR, v1.5), adopting the Preliminary Reference Earth Model (PREM) to compute the elastic loading displacements in a centre-of-solid Earth (CE) reference frame at each GPS site location.

Tags: Antarctica, Elastic Loading, Surface Mass Balance
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Temperate Australian quantitative spatial and temporal abundance data for rocky reef biota (biodiversity): Jurien Bay (WA)

The data is quantitative abundance of fish and megafaunal invertebrates and algal % cover derived from transect based counts at a wide range of locations across Temperate Australia. The methods are described in detail in Edgar and Barrett (1997). Primarily the data are derived from transects at 5 m depth and/or 10 m depth at each site surveyed. Methods were initially developed for research on temporal changes following protection in Tasmanian MPAs (Maria Is, Tinderbox, Ninepin Point, Governor Island). The data represented by this record was collected in MPA studies and surveys interstate, and was collected from Jurien Bay (WA). In many cases the dataset involved temporal replication (year scale).

Tags: Abundance - fish, Abundance - invertebrates, Carapace length - rock lobster, Fish size class, Percentage cover algal species, Shell length - abalone
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Crowdy Head Offshore, NSW Bathymetry 2021 (20210105S)

The Crowdy Head Offshore, NSW, multibeam survey was acquired by the NSW government (Department of Planning and Environment – DPE) onboard the Research Vessel Bombora during the period 20/APR/2021 - 30/APR/2021, using DPE’s R2Sonic 2022 multibeam sonar. The survey was completed as part of the SeabedNSW program funded by NSW government through Coastal Reforms (&gt;2015), HabMap Program funded through Marine Parks Authority (now under Marine Estate Management Authority) or through collaborations with partner agencies or institutions. The purpose of the project was to 1) provide a baseline dataset and 2) map the spatial distribution of seabed types. This dataset contains 32-bit floating point geotiff files of bathymetry and backscatter in 5m resolution for the study area, derived from the processed Hypack, R2Sonic GUI, POSView, POSPac, Qimera and FMGT software. General details on vessel setup, mobilisation and processing are provided at https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/-/media/OEH/Corporate-Site/Documents/Research/Our-science-and-research/seabed-nsw-standard-operating-procedures-multibeam-surveying-190101.pdf with survey specific details in the Survey Report and DPIE Rigor Statement (can be provided upon request).

Not to be used for navigational purposes

Tags: AusSeabed, Backscatter, Bathymetry, EARTH SCIENCES, Marine, Published_External, RV Bombora, Tasman Sea, multi-beam echosounders
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Macquarie Harbour WHA oxygen logger dataset

Fixed position oxygen and water temperature logger data from the Macquarie Harbour World Heritage Area (WHA). Two Hobo oxygen data loggers are positioned at approximately 15 m depth at different sites within the WHA, with the intent of monitoring representative mid-bottom water oxygen values in the WHA as these were identified in previous studies to be naturally low due to limited seawater exchange at the harbour entrance, and thus likely to be most susceptible to anthropogenic factors that may increase oxygen demand and alter WHA conservation values. These values include core habitat of the Maugean Skate, a listed threatened species. This work is funded by WHA advisory board via the Nature Conservation Branch of DPIPWE and is part of a larger study being conducted by IMAS undertaking a biological baseline study of the biodiversity of the Macquarie Harbour WHA.

This data spans 08/11/14 to present (most recent update 02/02/17).

Tags: Concentration of dissolved oxygen (adjusted), Maugean Skate, Temperate Reef, Water Quality
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Kimberley Region and WA Reefs Satellite-Derived Bathymetry Acquisition (20210024S)

The Kimberley Region and WA Reefs Bathymetry was derived by EOMAP form multispectral satellite data from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite sensor. EOMAP was contracted by Geoscience Australia (GA) to provide high-resolution (10m) Satellite-Derived Bathymetry (SDB) for the Priority Australian Seabed Mapping Sites. The survey area encompasses an area within Kimberley Region in Western Australia which includes Ashmore Reef, Browse Island, Cartier Island, Clerke Reef, Cunningham Island, Mermaid Reef, Scott Reef and Seringapatam Reef. These critical geospatial data layers provide the essential environmental baseline information for the long-term monitoring and management of these Marine Parks. Mapping the shallow water zone is of importance both from an environmental and socioeconomic perspective. Having access to digital, georeferenced, high-resolution maps of bathymetry and benthic habitats of shallow water areas, is of fundamental use in the areas of navigation, ecological research, environmental modelling, management and conservation, and monitoring the impacts from climate change. Bathymetry data was processed using the physics-based inversion method to derive quantitative information of the shallow water bathymetry using the reflected sunlight energy in different wavelengths of the visible and near infrared region. A detailed delivery report is provided in: Delivery Report: Satellite-Derived Bathymetry, Priority Australian Seabed Mapping Sites. Reference: 20220304.0888. EOMAP Australia Pty Ltd. This dataset is not to be used for navigational purposes. This dataset is published with the permission of the CEO, Geoscience Australia.

Tags: AusSeabed, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth Science | Oceans | Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography | Bathymetry, HVC_144641, Oceans, Published_External, Satellite-Derived Bathymetry, Sentinel-2, bathymetric grids, bathymetry, satellite-derived bathymetry (SDB)
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Opticomm Pty Ltd - Anticipatory Notice - Multiple - 10 June 2025 (Partly Declared 4 March 2026)

Opticomm Pty Ltd - Anticipatory Notice - given on 10 June 2025 for 7 project areas Ref ED25/38044

Project Area	Service_Area_Identifier	Estimated_Completion_Date	Formatted_address	Latlong	ID	Contract signed

1) Peppercorn Hill-S15-EAST	PPCH	30/06/2036	52 Foreshores Drive, Donnybrook VIC 3064 Australia	-37.541796,145.024920	**128**	30/05/2017

2) Alamora-S6A	ALAM	1/08/2033	17 Amara Street, Tarneit VIC 3029	-37.845172,144.636080	**130**	11/11/2020

3) WIRRA Labrador	RWIR	1/01/2026	103 Olsen Avenue Labrador QLD 4215 Australia	-27.943682, 153.387539	**882**	14/05/2025

4) Ariella Estate	HNBR	30/06/2036	41 Andrea Drive Henley Brook WA 6055 Australia	-31.800285, 115.966787	**883**	26/07/2022  **Ariella Estate-S1 Declared 7 Oct 2025** **S2 Declared 28 November 2025**/**S3 Declared 15 December 2025** **S4 Declared 4 March 2026**

5) 890-898 Bourke Street, Zetland	BRKS	31/08/2025	890-898 Bourke Street Zetland NSW 2017 Australia	-33.903740, 151.207080	**884**	27/05/2025

6) Buckingham Arms	BCKA	14/07/2027	1 Walkerville Terrace Gilberton SA 5081 Australia	-34.900742, 138.609671	**885**	24/05/2025

7)Corio Estate	CWCR	2/02/2027	270-298 Plantation Road Corio VIC 3214 Australia	-38.062520, 144.344700	**886**	5/06/2025


Tags: Opticomm, SIP, Telecommunications, broadband, statutory infrastructure provider
Organization: SIP Register - OptiComm
Forster Pacific Palms Cape Hawke, NSW Backscatter 2019 (20190159S)

The Forster Pacific Palms Cape Hawke, NSW, multibeam survey was acquired by the NSW government (Department of Planning and Environment – DPE) onboard the Research Vessel Bombora during the period 01/MAR/2019 – 12/AUG/2022, using DPE’s R2Sonic 2022 multibeam sonar. The survey was completed as part of the SeabedNSW program funded by NSW government through Coastal Reforms (&gt;2015), HabMap Program funded through Marine Parks Authority (now under Marine Estate Management Authority) or through collaborations with partner agencies or institutions. The purpose of the project was to 1) provide a baseline dataset and 2) map the spatial distribution of seabed types. This dataset contains 32-bit floating point geotiff files of bathymetry and backscatter in 5m resolution for the study area, derived from the processed Hypack, R2Sonic GUI, POSView, POSPac, Qimera and FMGT software. General details on vessel setup, mobilisation and processing are provided at https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/-/media/OEH/Corporate-Site/Documents/Research/Our-science-and-research/seabed-nsw-standard-operating-procedures-multibeam-surveying-190101.pdf with survey specific details in the Survey Report and DPIE Rigor Statement.

Not to be used for navigational purposes

Tags: AusSeabed, Backscatter, Bathymetry, EARTH SCIENCES, Marine, Published_External, RV Bombora, Tasman Sea, multi-beam echosounders
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Port Phillip Bay Drift Algae Bathymetry 2018 (4897/20180001S)

The Port Phillip Bay Drift Algae bathymetry survey was acquired by Deakin University Marine Mapping lab onboard the Motor Vessel Yolla over three days in 2018 (18/01/2018-21/01/2018) using a Kongsberg EM2040c. This survey was collected as part of a collaborative program with the University of Melbourne to map out the locations of drift algae within Port Phillip Bay.

Not to be used for navigational purposes

Tags: AusSeabed, Bass Strait (Great Australian Bight), Bathymetry, EARTH SCIENCES, MV Yolla, Marine, Published_External, multi-beam echosounders
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Geoscience Australia's Corporate Plan 2025-26

Our Corporate Plan 2025–26 explains who we are, what we do, how we do it and where we are going. The accountable authority of a Commonwealth entity must prepare a corporate plan for the entity at least once each reporting period in accordance to section 35 of the PGPA Act 2013.

The plan can also be viewed on our internet - https://www.ga.gov.au/about/corporate-plan

Tags: Governance, Other earth sciences not elsewhere classified, Performance, Planning, Published_External, Reporting
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Big Scrub Rocky Creek Dam, NSW. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes

The aim of this project is to compile land use and management practices and their observed and measured impacts and effects on vegetation condition. The results provide land managers and researchers with a tool for reporting and monitoring spatial and temporal transformations of Australia’s native vegetated landscapes due to changes in land use and management practices. Following are the details for the Big Scrub Rocky Creek Dam, NSW. 

Pre-European benchmark - analogue vegetation: The site was originally Lowland Subtropical Rainforest on basalt-derived and alluvial soils. The forest is distinguished by its dense, uneven canopy comprised of typically two to three tall tree layers. Eucalypts and brushbox (<em>Lophostemon confertus</em>) may be present as sparse emergent. Characteristic life-forms include buttressed trees, strangler figs, stands of bangalow palms (<em>Archontophoenix cunninghamiana</em>), woody vines and large epiphytes. 

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:<ul>
<li>1840: Intact rainforest</li>
<li>1862: Area opened-up for selection</li>
<li>1900: Cedar getters select large trees</li>
<li>1910: Rainforest cleared and converted to pasture for dairying</li>
<li>1911-1948: Area used for grazing dairy cattle</li>
<li>1948: Area acquired for public use (water storage)</li>
<li>1950-1989: Minimal management - land in transition (open public space)</li>
<li>1950-1952: Rocky Creek Dam constructed</li>
<li>1983-1990: Commenced experiments using assisted regeneration on small test plots</li>
<li>1991-2000: Large scale assisted regeneration (25&nbsp;ha) by converting lantana thickets to rainforest</li>
<li>2001-2011: Minimal management.</li>

</ul>

Tags: Assisted regeneration, Cedar getters, Conversion, Dairying, Lantana, Regrowth forest, Weed control
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Data Analysis for Determination of International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) 2020 Coordinates for the 2019 and 2020 Fiji Islands GPS/GNSS Survey Campaign Network

Fiji’s Geodesy Section of the Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources, through the Pacific Community (SPC) Pacific Geospatial &amp; Surveying Council (PGSC) Partnership Desk requested Geoscience Australia to compute International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) coordinates for one hundred and fifty-four (154) geodetic control stations across the Islands in the Fiji Archipelago, Rotuma and its dependencies Archipelago and Ceva-i-ra Island. The following three (3) geodetic survey campaigns GPS/GNSS measurements observed from 10th to 17th November 2019, 8th to 15th December 2019, and 26th January to 2nd February 2020 (Lal et al., 2022). The GPS data was processed using version 5.2 of the Bernese GPS Software in a regional network together with selected International GPS Service (IGS) sites. The GPS solutions were constrained to the ITRF2020 reference frame through adopting IGS20 coordinates on selected IGS reference sites and using the final IGS earth orientation parameters and satellite ephemerides products. These coordinates provide the coordinate reference frame for the project of the modernisation of Fiji’s geodetic datum.

Tags: Earth system sciences, GPS, National Datum, Published_External, geodetic reference frame, international terrestrial reference frame itrf
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
L071 St Georgina Cockroach Waterhole area experimental seismic survey, NT, 1964

In November 1964, the Bureau of Mineral Resources made a brief experimental seismic survey near Cockroach Wdterhole in the centre of the Tobermory 1:250,000 map area, Northern Territory. This survey was designed as part of a more extensive reconnaissance seismic survey to be made in 1964 and 1965 on areas of outcropping Lower Palaeozoic rocks in the southern part of the Georgina Basln. In this initial part of the survey a shortial profile was shot using a simple recording technique and noise tests and tests of various shot and geophone arrangements were carried out. It was established that, despite diffibult drilling conditions and the prevalence of random, high frequency noise, a suitable seismic technique for reconnaissance in this area, which it was hoped was representative of a very extensive region, could be developed.

Tags: AU-NT, HVC_144637, Published_External, Seismic Data seismic survey, Seismology and Seismic Exploration, geophysics, petroleum exploration, seismic reflection, seismic velocity
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data