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Coastalwatch Coastal Condition Monitoring System - Terrigal

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
Derwent Estuary Recreational Water Quality monitoring program - Nutgrove Beach East

Nutgrove Beach East monitoring site is collected as part of the Derwent Beach Watch program. Derwent Beach Watch is a collaborative program between councils and state government that tests water quality at 18 swimming sites around the estuary during summer months. 
Water samples are collected each Tuesday from the start of December to the end of March and analysed for the faecal indicator bacteria Enterococci (Enteralert method) at the Public health Lab. Because the samples must be cultured, it takes several days to publish the results.

Tags: Derwent Estuary, Hydrolab Vertical Profiler, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, Oceans | Water Quality | Contaminants, Oceans | Water Quality | Ph, Oceans | Water Quality | Turbidity, Oceans | Water Quality | Water Temperature, Water Quality Monitoring, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - 1.3.2 - Climate Change Reef Calcification

The overall objectives of this project are to understand how corals, the key ecosystem engineers on tropical reefs, have adapted and will respond in the future to the extreme variations in physical (e.g. light, temperature, water motion) and chemical (e.g. pCO2, oxygen, and nutrients) conditions characteristic of the Kimberley coastal region.
Through a series of field and laboratory experiments, we aimed to:


Study seasonal calcification rates of common Kimberley corals over two years;


Assess their thermal tolerance and establish the first bleaching thresholds for this region; and


Reconstruct their resilience to historical climate and environmental extremes using geochemical proxies in coral cores.


Data stored on Pawsey Data Store and UWA IRDS store.  The raw data from the 2017 paper are also archived in the Pangaea database.

Tags: Oceans | Coastal Processes | Coral Reefs, Paleoclimate | Ocean/lake Records | Coral Deposits, calcification rate
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Spencer Gulf prawn trawl by-catch data

By-catch species distribution and abundance data collected from prawn trawl surveys, throughout Spencer Gulf, South Australia between 1994 and 2007.

Tags: Agriculture | Agricultural Aquatic Sciences | Fisheries, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat, Biosphere | Zoology | Crustaceans, Bycatch, Global/Oceans | Southern Ocean/ Australia extension, Human Dimensions | Environmental Impacts, Marine Features (Australia) | Spencer Gulf, SA, Oceans | Marine Biology | Fish, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Trawls | Beam Trawls, Trawls | Prawn Trawls, Visual Counts/Observations, latitude, length, longitude, taxonomic_group_count, weight
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Benthic marine biophysical attributes of selected sites in the West Kimberley

Hydroacoustic surveys will be undertaken at four representative locations along the west coast of the Dampier Peninsula and Gourdon Bay to capture high resolution bathymetry and geo-referenced seabed bottom types for the production of bathymetric maps. An underwater videographic survey will then be undertaken to identify the benthic communites at the key functional group level and to produce geo-referenced benthic habitat maps.

Tags: Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Community Structure, Habitat Map, Hydroacoustic Survey, Marine Features (Australia) | Kimberley Coast, WA, Oceans | Bathymetry | Seafloor Topography, Videographic Survey
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Slocum glider deployment in Western Australia off Two Rocks (September 2010)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and biological parameters like for example dissolved oxygen and turbidity data measured by a Slocum glider in the region of Two Rocks (Western Australia).
The Ocean Gliders Facility (formerly known as the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)), manages Slocum gliders to be deployed on the continental shelf.
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, Slocum Glider, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia, 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
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Slocum glider deployment in Western Australia off Two Rocks (July - August 2009)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and biological parameters like for example dissolved oxygen and turbidity data measured by a Slocum glider in the region of Two Rocks (Western Australia).
The Ocean Gliders Facility (formerly known as the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)), manages Slocum gliders to be deployed on the continental shelf.
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, Slocum Glider, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia, 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
Fisheries Oceanography

One of the main factors affecting recruitment into WA's fisheries is the Leeuwin Current. The current runs along the continental shelf of the WA coastline between NW Cape and past Cape Naturaliste along the south coast. Oceanic processes in general, such as advection and water temperature, play an important role in recruitment in both benthic and pelagic fisheries. The Leeuwin Current strength is influenced by ENSO events.
This project collates environmental data such as:
* Fremantle sea-level data (index of Leeuwin current strength);
* monthly sea surface temperature by 1 o x 1 o blocks (satellite-based); and
* Bureau of Meteorology data such as wind strength and direction and rainfall.

Time : ongoing

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Broadscale Environmental Monitoring Program (BEMP) sites

This dataset depicts the location of the Broadscale Environmental Monitoring Program (BEMP) sites.  It was compiled from data provided by EPA Tasmania, IMAS and published reports.
BEMP was initiated in 2009 by the State Government to provide knowledge and information on ecosystem function in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel and Huon Estuary. BEMPs have been developed for all marine farming regions. The objective of each program is to document (on an ongoing basis) broadscale spatial and temporal trends for key environmental parameters, allowing assessment of the environmental effects of finfish aquaculture in Tasmania. Marine farming licence conditions include participation in respective BEMPs.
The BEMP program initially covered assessment of water column and sediment health at a broadscale level but has been expanded to include inshore reef, deep-reef and seagrass distribution and health. Seagrass monitoring occurs over transects. In this dataset, only the start location is displayed. Sediment sampling includes benthic infauna, stable isotopes, particle size, visual assessment, redox analysis, and sulphide measurements. Visual assessment, redox and sulphide analysis is carried out each year, while analysis of benthic infauna, stable isotopes and particle size is undertaken every four years. In the intervening years these samples are collected, preserved and retained. Water quality analytes include physico-chemical parameters (temperature, dissolved oxygen and salinity), nutrients (dissolved nutrients: ammonia, nitrate, phosphate, and silicate, nutrients: total nitrogen, total phosphorous), chlorophyll a and phytoplankton species counts. Water quality sampling is undertaken monthly from May to January and fortnightly from February to April.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Assessing the biodiversity and degradation of human-impacted estuaries in North-Western Tasmania

Water quality and biological data was collected from four tide-dominated river estuaries indicative of catchments with varying levels of human impacts to: 1) assess draft indicator levels for water quality, and 2) investigate biological indicators of estuarine health in NW Tasmania. This data includes sampling from Detention River, Duck Bay, Montagu River and Black River

Tags: Benthic macroinvertebrates, Degradation, Human impact, Temperate Reef
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Age vs Depth profile of core GC11, collected from the Capricorn Channel off the Eastern Australian Coast

A gravity core (GC11) was collected from a depth of 502 mbsl within the Capricorn Channel, southern Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Isotopic values for 18O and 13C were obtained from Gs. ruber and correlated with the SPECMAP age-model. The results highlight 4 glacial cycles, incorporating Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 1 through to MIS 11. Isotopically heavier 18O values at ~460cm, ~345cm, 150cm, and 30cm correspond respectively to MIS 10 (359 kyr BP), MIS 8 (260 kyr BP), MIS 6 (140 kyr BP) and the LGM (20 kyr BP). Sedimentation rates are typically low, &lt;1 cm/kyr to ~4 cm/kyr. The higher sedimentation rates are evident at glacial / interglacial terminations, but then drop off rapidly in the interglacials.

Tags: 51200000, Foraminifera, Foraminiferans, Foraminiferida, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sedimentation, age_model, core_depth, sedimentation_rate
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
2016 SoE Marine Chapter - Case Study - National assessment of shallow reefs

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 Case Study "The National assessment of shallow reefs". The full Case Study, including figures and tables (where provided), is attached to this record. Where available, the Data Stream(s) used to generate this Case Study are accessible through the "On-line Resources" section of this record.

DESCRIPTION OF THE FOCUS OF THE CASE STUDY
Shallow rocky and coral reef biodiversity (&lt;25 m depth) around Australia’s coasts and at offshore islands and reef systems. This assessment is based on the recent Australia-wide rollout of Reef Life Survey monitoring methodology (data available at http://reeflifesurvey.imas.utas.edu.au), which includes consideration of reef fishes, large mobile invertebrates such as sea urchins, crown of thorns, lobsters and abalone, and habitat-forming seaweeds and corals.
PRESSURES/ISSUES OF IMPORTANCE
Pressures from recreational and commercial fisheries are of particular importance to larger fish species and lobsters, while ocean warming is having widespread impacts on the composition of communities in temperate zones. The marine heatwave in WA has had a particularly large impact on shallow water reef biodiversity in WA since SoE 2011, with widespread coral bleaching in the northwest and loss of kelp habitats and changing fish communities in the southwest. Cyclones and storms have also had substantial impacts on coral communities at Ningaloo Reef and parts of the GBR. Inner Great Barrier Reef coral structures have been adversely affected by siltation and nutrification.
DATA STREAM(S) USED IN CASE STUDY
Reef Life Survey visual census data were used for the current status assessment, with extensive spatial coverage of sites around the continent. Temporal trend information came from a combination of RLS, LTTRMP and AIMS long-term GBR monitoring datasets at 16 particular locations (MPA locations include the broader region and sites inside and outside sanctuary zones): 
NSW: Batemans Marine Park, Jervis Bay Marine Park, Sydney, Lord Howe Island, Port Stephens
VIC: Beware Reef, Port Phillip Heads
SA: Encounter Bay (Fleurieu Peninsula)
WA: Rottnest Island, Jurien Marine Park, Ningaloo Marine Park
QLD: Capricorn-Bunker, Southern GBR, Central GBR, Northern GBR
TAS: Maria Island

Tags: Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), case study, community assemblage, expert assessment, reefs
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Regional Recreational Creel Surveys

The Recreational Fisheries Program has a strategic plan to conduct creel surveys of recreational fishing on a rotating region-by-region basis. The regions include the West Coast, Gascoyne, Pilbara, Kimberley and South Coast. An integrated approach where all regions are surveyed on a regular basis (about once every five years) to monitor changes in recreational catch and fishing effort is in place. So far the regions that have been surveyed include the West Coast and Gascoyne regions.
A creel survey of recreational fishing in the Pilbara region and Broome was conducted during 1999/2000. The final report is in draft form.
The recreational catch of blue swimmer crabs in Cockburn Sound and Geographe Bay was estimated from a 12-month creel survey of recreational boat-based and shore-based fishers from September 2001 to August 2002. The final report for this project has now been completed.
A 12-month survey of boat-based and shore-based fishing in South Coast estuaries commenced in December 2002, data collection ended in March 2004 and analyses are underway. The final report is due to be completed by December 2004.
Time: ongoing, but on a cyclic basis
This project also manages other data collection systems relating to the commercial fishing industry including annual returns for vessel characteristics, gear and equipment and processors returns including value of fish processed from the holders of Land-based Processors Licences that engage in the processing of fish other than rock lobster, prawns or scallops (database system still to be established).

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Oxygen-isotope records, age-model results and sedimentation rates of core MD88-784

Core MD88-784 was recovered during the French ASPARA IV cruise in 1988, aboard the Marion Dufresne. The core was located on the Tasman Fracture Zone of the Mid-Ocean Ridge, within the Polar Front Zone.  
Isotopic analysis was performed on tests of the planktonic foraminifera Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (200-250um), and indicate that the core contains isotope stages 1 to 3. The base of the core is found to reach the oxygen isotope stage 3-4 boundary. 
The core is considered to have lost the uppermost section of the core that converts the last 3kyr against the SPECMAP stack. The results also indicate that the Holocene period has the highest rates of sedimentation observed through time. Further variations (excluding isotope-stage 1) appear to indicate that a reduction of the sedimentation rate occurred during the interglacial periods, in contrast to that of the glacials.

Tags: Age model, Biosphere | Microbiota | Foraminifers, Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sedimentation, Paleoclimate | Ocean/lake Records | Oxygen Isotopes
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
SAIMOS - Biological and Flow Cytometry data collected from CTD stations in South Australia, in February 2010

Flow cytometry data was collected in February 2010, in waters off South Australia. 
The general purpose of the study is to be able to establish background knowledge on the ecosystem on the continental shelf of South Australia and the impact of upwelling/saline outflow events on microbial communities to ultimately develop a biogeochemical model of the region. Sampling was carried out during cruises conducted on board the RV Ngerin as part of the Southern Australian Integrated Marine System (SAIMOS). During each cruise, the physical, chemical and biological properties of the chlorophyll fluorescence maximum (FM) layer were investigated. Flow cytometry data has been collected for picophytoplankton, bacteria and viruses.
Six main stations have been sampled over the course of the study, five are located on the 100 m isobath, i.e. RS (35.508S, 136.278E), B2 (35.418S, 136.148E), B3 (35.258S, 136.048E), B4 (35.168S, 135.418E) and B5 (35.008S, 135.198E), and one from an offshore station (B1; 36.188S, 136.178E) located southwest of Kangaroo Island. Note that combining the distances between stations (14–25 nautical miles), the average component of the current velocity at middepth along the shelf (0.01 m s21) and the average speed of the vessel (i.e. 9 knots) indicate that different water masses were sampled at each station. Additional samples have on occasion been collected from the National Reference Station (NRS) at Kangaroo Island (35.832S, 136.447E) and the SA Spencer Gulf Mouth Mooring (SAM8SG, 35.25S, 136.690E), where the saline outflow occurs.

Tags: Biosphere | Microbiota | Bacteria, Biosphere | Vegetation | Phytoplankton, IMOS Node | SA-IMOS | Southern Australian Integrated Marine Observing System, Niskin Bottles, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Inorganic Matter, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrogen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Organic Matter, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Phosphate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Silicate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Oceans | Ocean Winds | Surface Winds, Picophytoplankton, Virus, amount_of_bacteria_in_sea_water, amount_of_picophytoplankton_in_sea_water, amount_of_virus_in_sea_water, concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water, depth, depth_of_chlorophyll_maximum, latitude, longitude, mass_concentration_of_particulate_inorganic_matter_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_particulate_organic_matter_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_suspended_matter_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_nitrogen_in_ammonium_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_nitrogen_in_nitrate_and_nitrite_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_phosphorus_in_phosphate_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_silicate_in_sea_water, sea_surface_temperature, wind_from_direction, wind_speed
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Redmap (South Australia) - Sightings of Algae and Plant Species

Redmap is a primarily a website that invites the community to spot, log and map marine species that are uncommon in their region, or along particular parts of their coast. The information collected is mapped and displayed on the site, demonstrating, in time, how species distributions may be changing.
Sightings are divided into two categories – those with a photo that can be ‘verified’ by a marine biologist, and sightings without photos that we call community sightings (anecdotal). All the information collected, with and without photos, is mapped and will be used in the following years to map out a ‘story’ of changes occurring in our marine environment.
The main data collected includes the species sighted (normally selected from a list comprising preselected species of interest), the location, date/time and activity being undertaken.  Other optional information gathered include biological data such as sex, size and weight and environmental data such as water depth and temperature and habitat.
This record is associated with live data (and will subsequently change over time) and spatial elements have reduced accuracy.  It is also subject to a three year embargo (ie. does not contain data less than three years old).  If you wish to discuss obtaining a citable, static dataset, that is current and/or contains accurate spatial elements, please see Point of Contact.

Tags: Hand Sampling, body_length, body_weight, climate change, range shift, species distribution, fishing, latitude, longitude
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Health and Status of Seagrass in Cockburn Sound, Owen Anchorage and Warnbro Sound: 1998 to 2008

Since 1998, a survey of seagrass health has been repeated annually between Stragglers Rocks and Warnbro Sound in the Perth metropolitan waters, in January, on behalf of DEC (Department of Environment and Conservation) and CSMC (Cockburn Sound Management Council).  The survey has incorporated measurements of several quantitative variables at each assessment site, and also established a series of permanent transects over the lower depth limit of seagrass meadows at four different sites.
Parameters measured (some were measured only in some years) include: 
- Seagrass shoot density 
- Shoot height (maximum) 
- Shoot height (average) 
- Leaf productivity 
- Seagrass above ground biomass 
- Epiphyte biomass 
- Photoquadrats 
- Photography of leaves 
- Video transect 
- Videography of leaves 
- Canopy cover (%) 
- Meadow cover (%) 
- Epiphyte cover (%)
- Epiphyte composition 
- Rhizome mat 
- Coloniser species

Tags: Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Biomass, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Primary Production, Biosphere | Vegetation | Vegetation Cover, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Plants
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network