AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Characterisation of fish communities at Scott Reefs, Seringapatam Reef and the Rowley Shoals, Western Australia

In September/October 1993, fish communities at North Scott Reef, South Scott Reef, Seringapatam Reef and the Rowley Shoals (Mermaid Reef, Clerke Reef and Imperieuse Reef) were surveyed. Fish population censuses for a number of reef fish families (Chaetodontidae, Pomacentridae, Acanthuridae, Scaridae, Labridae, Caesionidae, Siganidae, Pomacanthidae and Zanclidae) were carried out by trained divers at a number of outer reef slope and lagoon sites at each reef. The log5 abundance of fish species was recorded during 45-minute SCUBA swims in which the observer swam a zig-zag course along an approximately 250m long section of the reef within a depth range of 0-12m.Absolute counts of snappers, emperors, cods and butterfly fish (Lutjanidae, Lethrinidae, Serranidae and Chaetodontidae) were also made at outer reef slope and lagoon sites.Additional fish counts of Labridae and Pomacentridae were made at 3 sites at South Scott Reef using standardised counting methods developed for long-term monitoring of fish populations on the Great Barrier Reef. This technique involved counting fish along 5 replicate 50m x 2m transects per site at a depth of approximately 6m.In addition to the quantitative counts of the groups mentioned above, lists of all species of fish observed at each site were compiled.
 This study was initiated to quantitatively characterise the fish communities on the major offshore reef systems of north west Australia (Scott Reefs, Seringapatam Reef and the Rowley Shoals) and to compare their composition and structure to fish communities at similar latitudes in the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Wind statistics at Governor Head Meteorological Station, Jervis Bay in May 1991

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 May 1991. Five datasets are included here representing different times of the day: 0000-0545, 0600-1145, 1200-1745 and 1800-2345. Individual measurements have been converted so that trends of wind speed and direction can be seen for the time period in question. The fifth dataset incorporates all the wind data collected irrespective of time providing a monthly summary. The station initially recorded wind data at 15 minute intervals.
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 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
Circum-Antarctic shoreward heat fluxes derived from eddy- and tide-resolving simulation

Model data used to quantify the roles of mean and transient flows in transporting heat across almost the entire Antarctic continental slope and shelf using an ocean/sea-ice model run at eddy- and tide-resolving (1/48 degree) horizontal resolution.

Tags: Cell center separation along Z axis, Cell center separation in X across western cell wall, Cell center separation in Y across southern cell wal, Cell face separation along Z axis, Cell face separation in X along southern cell wall, Cell face separation in Y along western cell wall, Elevation of bottom of lowest model grid cell at tracer points, Elevation of bottom of lowest model grid cell at u-points, Elevation of bottom of lowest model grid cell at v-points, Model bathymetry, averaged advective potential temperature flux due to u, averaged advective potential temperature flux due to v, averaged advective potential temperature flux due to w, averaged advective salt due to v, averaged advective salt flux due to u, averaged advective salt flux due to w, averaged merid. (relative to grid) velocity, averaged of u^2, averaged of v^2, averaged of w^2, averaged potential temperature, averaged salinity, averaged vertical velocity, averaged zonal (relative to grid) velocity, cosine(alpha) relative to geographic direction at grid cell center, latitude North of center of grid cell, latitude North of southwest corner of grid cell, longitude East of center of grid cell, longitude East of southwest corner of grid cell, mask of tracer cell, mask of u cell, mask of v cell, sine(alpha) relative to geographic direction at grid cell center, vertical coordinate of center of cell, vertical coordinate of face of cell, vertical profile of reference density
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Diversity of bacteria associated with the coral Pocillopora damicornis from the Great Barrier Reef

Three colonies of the coral Pocillopora damicornis located at 3-5 m depths were tagged at the weather station on Davies Reef, Great Barrier Reef.The microbial communities of three separate coral colonies were assessed using clone library construction alongside restriction fragment length polymorphism and phylogenetic analysis. Diversity was also investigated spatially across six replicate samples within each single coral colony using 16S rDNA and rpoB-DGGE analysis.
 To investigate the bacterial community associated with Pocillopora damicornis, a major reef-building coral found throughout the Great Barrier Reef. To make comparisons of the bacterial communities both within a single coral colony and between three separate coral colonies were made using molecular microbial techniques. Comparisons were also performed between two microbial sampling techniques commonly used in coral-microbial studies, the syringe based coral mucus sampling and the airbrushing of the coral to provide a tissue slurry sample.
 The first analysis and comparison of microbial communities from a coral from the GBR.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Genome-wide SNP analysis reveals an increase in adaptive genetic variation through selective breeding of coral

This study combined phenotypic, pedigree, and genomic marker data from colonies sourced from a warm reef on the Great Barrier Reef reproductively crossed with conspecific colonies from a cooler reef to produce combinations of warm purebreds and warm-cool hybrid larvae and juveniles.
Corals of the species Acropora spathulata were collected from one reef in the far north of the Great Barrier Reef (Tijou) and one reef in the central GBR (Backnumbers). During spawning, the eggs and sperm were separated and then mixed, resulting in larvae from 30 distinct familial crosses. These crosses include three produced from two parents sourced from the warm far northern reef (WW1, WW2, WW3), one cross with a warm dam and cool sire (WC) and one with a cool dam and warm sire (CW).
This study focused on the five familial crosses sequenced at both the larval stage (27.5&deg;C) and the juvenile stage (27.5&deg;C and 31&deg;C). Aposymbiotic juveniles were infected with Symbiodinium tridacnidorum, Cladocopium goreaui, and Durusdinium trenchii with cultured material obtained from the AIMS Symbiont Culture Facility. Full details of the collection, environmental parameters of each location, permits, spawning, larval and juvenile rearing, and symbiosis establishment can be found in Quigley et al. (2020)
Individual larvae were genotyped (total n = 68) across five families representing three population crosses (n = WW: 34, WC: 15, CW: 19).
Statistical analysis of SNP metrics were conducted in R, along with modelling SNP frequency distributions. Full details are in the linked paper, Quigley, Bay and van Oppen (2020).

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Coastalwatch: Coastal Condition Monitoring System - Kingscliff

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
Secchi Disc data measured during a high rainfall event in Port Jackson, 20 August 2007

The Sydney Harbour catchment area includes a number of different river systems which drain into the Port Jackson estuary. During high rainfall events the catchment areas behave differently to deliver contaminants into the Port Jackson estuary. Under conditions of high rainfall contaminants are delivered to areas very quickly as freshwater slides over the top of the denser more saline waters of the estuary. Secchi Disc samples were taken along the Port Jackson estuary over four days to determine the behaviour of the freshwater plume as it travels in a layer of freshwater to be flushed or flocculate out at some point in the estuary.

Tags: Oceans | Ocean Optics | Secchi Depth, Oceans | Water Quality | Toxic Chemicals, secchi_depth_of_sea_water
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Slocum glider deployment in Western Australia off Two Rocks (February - March 2013)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and biological parameters including dissolved oxygen and turbidity data measured by a Slocum glider in the region of Two Rocks (Western Australia).
Slocum glider data from the oceans around Australia have been collected by the Ocean Gliders Facility (formerly known as the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)), since June 2008 and are ongoing. The data are obtained from an onboard suite of instruments which include Seabird-SBE41 CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth), WETLabs BBFL2SLO 3 parameter optical sensor (measuring Chlorophyll-a, CDOM and 700nm Backscatter) and an Aanderaa oxygen optode (measuring concentration of dissolved oxygen in seawater.

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
Spencer Gulf Blue Crab fishery-independent survey data

Blue crab abundance, distribution and size structure from surveys conducted throughout Spencer Gulf since 2002.

Tags: Agriculture | Agricultural Aquatic Sciences | Fisheries, Biosphere | Zoology | Crustaceans, Blue Crab, Cages and Enclosures, Crab Pots, Global/Oceans | Southern Ocean/ Australia extension, Marine Features (Australia) | Spencer Gulf, SA, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Portunus armatus, latitude, length, longitude, reproductive_status, taxonomic_group_count, weight
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Shell cross sections of the bivalve Pinctada imbricata collected from Moreton Bay

Petrological and some geochemical analysis methods require the sample to be made into a thin or thick section. This record provides a series of shell cross-sectional images and also outlines the process involved in thin/thick section preparation. 
This is part of a project that assesses the viability of interpretating environmental records (such as temperature, salinity and heavy metal pollution) from shell geochemistry through trace element and isotopic analysis.

Tags: 23236012, Biosphere | Zoology | Mollusks, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Trace Elements, Paleoclimate | Ocean/lake Records | Isotopes, Pinctada imbricata
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Coastal Lake Assessment and Management Tool (CLAM): Deep Creek, Nambucca Shire Council

The Coastal Lake Assessment and Management (CLAM) tool allows stakeholders to assess the social, economic and environmental trade-offs associated with development, remediation and use options for coastal lakes and estuaries. Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) developed CLAM in 2004 when contracted by the NSW State Government to provide sustainability assessments of 8 coastal lakes. Several projects have since been established directly with local government and NRM groups.
To date, 27 CLAMs have been developed in New South Wales, where they generally fit within estuary management or catchment management plans. To develop these CLAMs and build local capacity to maintain them, ANU-Enterprise Pty Ltd - the commercial company of ANU developed an Accreditation Scheme whereby local consultants are trained in the CLAM approach.

Tags: Agriculture | Agricultural Aquatic Sciences | Aquaculture, Agriculture | Agricultural Aquatic Sciences | Fisheries, Agriculture | Agricultural Plant Science | Reclamation/revegetation/restoration, Agriculture | Forest Science | Forest Fire Science, Agriculture | Forest Science | Reforestation, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Coastal Habitat, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Estuarine Habitat, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Lakes, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Rivers/stream Habitat, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Saline Lakes, Biosphere | Terrestrial Ecosystems | Agricultural Lands, Biosphere | Terrestrial Ecosystems | Wetlands, Biosphere | Wetlands | Estuarine Wetlands, Biosphere | Wetlands | Riparian Wetlands, Deep Creek, Human Dimensions | Economic Resources | Agricultural Economics, Human Dimensions | Environmental Impacts | Eutrophication, Human Dimensions | Environmental Impacts | Reclamation/revegetation/restoration, Human Dimensions | Environmental Impacts | Sewage, Human Dimensions | Environmental Impacts | Urbanization, Human Dimensions | Environmental Impacts | Water Management, Human Dimensions | Land Use/land Cover | Land Management, Hydrosphere | Surface Water | Lakes, Hydrosphere | Surface Water | Rivers/streams, Hydrosphere | Water Quality | Nutrients, Land Surface | Erosion/sedimentation | Suspended Solids, Land Surface | Landscape | Landscape Management, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Estuaries, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Lagoons, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Mangroves, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Sea Level Rise, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Shorelines
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Derwent Estuary Ambient Water Quality monitoring program - Site NN

Site NN is sampled monthly by Norske Skog as part of the Derwent Ambient Water Quality monitoring program.
Since 2003, ambient water quality monitoring has been carried out on a monthly basis at up to 28 sites throughout the Derwent estuary by Norske Skog Boyer, Nyrstar Hobart and the State Government. Monitoring is carried out by three different boat-based sampling parties, but is co-ordinated to occur on the same day each month. 
At each site, in-situ field measurements are taken using calibrated sensors for temperature, salinity, pH, dissolved oxygen and turbidity. Water clarity is also measured using a secchi disk. Surface and bottom water samples are collected for analysis of true color, total suspended solids(TSS), total  and dissolved nutrients, organic carbon and zinc. at most sites, depth integrated samples are also collected for chlorophyll a using a plastic tube. Bottom samples in the Middle and Outer estuary are collected using a niskin bottle. Pumps are used in the upper estuary site to fill up the bottles. All water samples are analysed at Analytical Service Tasmania, a National Association of Testing Authorities-accredited laboratory. Monitoring site depth is 2 meters

Tags: Derwent Estuary, Hydrolab Vertical Profiler, Niskin Bottles, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Ammonia, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrite, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Phosphate, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Secchi Depth, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, Oceans | Water Quality | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Water Quality | Conductivity, Oceans | Water Quality | Nitrogen Compounds, Oceans | Water Quality | Oxygen, Oceans | Water Quality | Ph, Oceans | Water Quality | Phosphorous Compounds, Oceans | Water Quality | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Water Quality | Trace Metals, Oceans | Water Quality | Turbidity, Oceans | Water Quality | Water Temperature, Secchi Disks, True Colour, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Small-scale logging in mangroves of Timor Leste

The impact of small-scale cutting of mangroves by family groups was examined in 3 high-salinity forests on the dry tropical, north coast of Timor Leste.Forests characteristics were stems (ha-1) and average basal area (m2 ha-1), total above-ground biomass (t ha-1) measured by diameter at breast height (dbh), canopy cover (%), and leaf area index - LAI: leaf area, ground area (m2). Concentrations of particulate nutrients were examined. Interstitial concentrations of dissolved sulfide, metals, and ammonium were measured as well as soil desiccation (i.e. its salinity). Also measured were solute uptake and O2 translocation to live roots, and rates of anaerobic soil metabolism (sulfate reduction). Mangrove species noted were Ceriops tagal, Rhizophora apiculata, Bruguiera gymnorrhiza, and Avicennia marina.
 A pilot study to measure mangrove primary production and biogeochemistry on the southern coast and northern coast of Timor Leste.
 Sediment chemistry, forest biomass estimates (DBH), socio-economic pressure, costs and benefits of limited logging, implications for sustainability.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Size-assortative pairing in the fiddler crab Uca capricornis

A unique relationship exists between neighbouring males and females in the fiddler crab Uca capricornis. This experiment was designed to examine whether the nearest female or male neighbour was correlated with the size of a focal male. Throughout different experiments a total of 746 neighbour relations have been investigated. The size data collected during these experiments (531 male-female neighbours : 215 male-male neighbours) is the basis of this dataset. 
Female size was found to be positively correlated with the size of her nearest male neighbour. Male size was also positively correlated with the size of his nearest male neighbour, but more weakly than between male-female pairs.

Tags: 28 960036, Behavioural Ecology, Biosphere | Zoology | Crustaceans, Fiddler Crab, Neighbour Relations, Ocypodidae, Size-assortative pairing, Uca capricornis, carapace_size, code, male_code, plot
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Fishes and benthos of near-shore seagrass and sandflat habitats at Monkey Mia Shark Bay, Western Australia

In February and June 1983, fishes and benthic fauna were sampled to provide quantitative estimates of densities and volumes of the benthic invertebrate animals and biomass of the seagrass in summer, as well as abundances of the fishes occurring during the day and night and in both summer and winter in Amphibolis seagrass beds and sand flats at Monkey Mia Shark Bay, Western Australia.

Tags: 63 318000, Amphibolis sp., Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Biomass, Cymodoceaceae, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Intertidal Zone, Oceans | Marine Biology | Fish, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Habitat, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Plants, seagrasses
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Slocum glider deployment off Coffs Harbour (New south wales) (November 2011)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and biological parameters like for example dissolved oxygen and turbidity data measured by a Slocum glider off Coffs Harbour (New South Wales).
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) | New South Wales, 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
Strand line fauna of beaches on the east coast of Tasmania

Sandy beaches on Tasmania's east coast, from Catamaran to Cape Portland, were sampled between September 1994 and June 1995. At each of 120 sites the strandline fauna was sampled using pitfall traps set overnight during the low tide period. A number of physical and biotic characteristics of each beach were also measured.

Tags: Arachnids, Crustaceans, Insects, Myriapods, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Sandy beaches, Strandline
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network