cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dcab083e5
title: WAMSI 2 - Dredging Science Node - Project 5.3 - Natural Dynamics

description: The Theme 5.3 study was undertaken to improve our understanding of the spatial and temporal patterns in seagrass composition, abundance and reproductive phenology in the Pilbara region. Key environmental parameters, especially light, that influence seagrass survival and can be altered by dredging were also characterised.

From August 2013 to March 2015 (18 months), surveys of seagrass abundance were undertaken in the Exmouth Gulf region. The locations surveyed (South Muiron Island, Bundegi and Exmouth Gulf) encompassed a range in water clarity from clear to turbid. Less frequent surveys were undertaken at other locations in the Pilbara: Thevenard Island, Rosemary Island and Balla. Measurements of seagrass abundance were also obtained from monitoring conducted as part of the dredging and dredge-spoil management plan for Chevron Australia’s Wheatstone Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project.

During each survey measurements were made in the field, photographs were taken or samples were collected in order to measure the following variables:
1.	percentage cover of seagrass and other benthos;
2.	above- and below-ground biomass, shoot density, leaf length, leaf width and number of flowers;
3.	density of seagrass seeds;
4.	sediment grain size;
5.	stable isotope ratios (13C and 15N) of seagrass leaf tissue; and
6.	water quality (light, conductivity, temperature, salinity, nutrients, suspended particulate matter and chlorophyll).
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dcb7c3f76
title: Rottnest Ferries Underway Temperature 2016-09-14

description: This dataset contains the Underway (UWY) data collected on commercial ferries plying the Rottnest to mainland route. Voyages take place on a commercial schedule. A Seabird SBE38 sensor is permanently mounted on the ferry in the engine cooling waster intake. A monitoring computer records sea surface temperature whenever the vessel achieves more than a minimum preprogrammed speed over ground. Position is determined from a GPS unit. Data is transmitted to CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research centre in Hobart on the hour every hour. The vessel traverses the route from Hillarys Boat harbour to Rottnest 3 or four times per day except during a winter vessel maintenance period. This dataset has been processed and is archived within the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre in Floreat, Western Australia
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dcc0956a4
title: Indigenous Land and Sea Interests

description: Land that is owned or managed by Australia’s Indigenous communities, or over which Indigenous people have use and rights, was compiled from information supplied by Australian, state and territory governments and other statutory authorities with Indigenous land and sea management interests. Indigenous land and sea interests was comprised of: 
a)	Indigenous tenure for Australia (Aboriginal Reserve, Aboriginal Deed of Grant, Aboriginal Freehold Land (inalienable and alienable), Aboriginal Local Government Lease, Aboriginal held lease (other than pastoral), Aboriginal held pastoral lease, Multi feature Aboriginal freehold – National Parks) (1,105,992 km2);
b)	Indigenous Protected Areas IPAs including sea country (684,124 km2);
c)	Native title outcomes for areas within determinations
a.	exclusive possession (851,117 km2), and 
b.	non-exclusive possession (1,500,776 km2) ;
d)	Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database 2014 – (Aboriginal Areas, and National Park Aboriginal) – (16,790 km2).
Note 1: overlaps have been removed between tenure types (a-d). 
Note 2: Registered native title claims (yet to be determined) and Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs) are excluded
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dcca38c9c
title: WAMSI Dredging Science Node: Theme 5 Project 5.4 Recovery mechanisms

description: The objective of Project 5.4 was to determine whether recovery of seagrass in the Pilbara following disturbance is by sexual (recruitment from seeds) or asexual (vegetative regrowth from rhizome extension) means, and the relative importance of each, thereby determining the capacity, timeframes and mechanisms of recovery from light and sediment deposition effects. This was achieved through an experiment in which plots cleared of seagrass were enclosed by a barrier or left open, and changes in cover were compared to unmanipulated control (and procedural control) plots. The experiment was done at two sites, a 2-m deep (the 'shallow' site) and a 6-m deep (the 'deep' site). The experiment was intended to run for 6 months, but after 5 months disturbance caused by Tropical Cyclone (TC) Olwyn reduced seagrass cover at both sites, and removed the experimental apparatus at the shallow site. Nevertheless, results yielded by surveys prior to TC Olwyn unambiguously showed strong evidence for recovery through vegetative regrowth (full recovery in cleared plots with no barriers, plus a pattern of increasing cover from the edges of the plots) and no evidence for recovery through recruitment from seeds (no seagrass was ever recorded in any cleared plot with a barrier). The main species of seagrass present was Halophila ovalis, which is widespread throughout northwestern Australia. The transferability of inferences from this study to other places in the Pilbara is hampered by the substantial variation in abundance and species composition from place to place - different species might have different mechanisms of recovery. The nature of the experimental disturbance (complete removal of all seagrass, including roots and rhizomes) is a reasonable facsimile of a severe dredging-induced disturbance, but the spatial extent of the experimental clearances (~0.5 m2) is orders of magnitude smaller than the spatial extents of dredging-induced mortality induced elsewhere: it is plausible that recovery of patches within meadows is more easily achieved through rhizome extension than recovery that encompasses spatial extents of hectares.
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dcdee1df0
title: Rottnest Ferries Underway Temperature 2016-07-27

description: This dataset contains the Underway (UWY) data collected on commercial ferries plying the Rottnest to mainland route. Voyages take place on a commercial schedule. A Seabird SBE38 sensor is permanently mounted on the ferry in the engine cooling waster intake. A monitoring computer records sea surface temperature whenever the vessel achieves more than a minimum preprogrammed speed over ground. Position is determined from a GPS unit. Data is transmitted to CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research centre in Hobart on the hour every hour. The vessel traverses the route from Hillarys Boat harbour to Rottnest 3 or four times per day except during a winter vessel maintenance period. This dataset has been processed and is archived within the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre in Floreat, Western Australia
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dceb2c623
title: WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 2.2.4 Benthic primary productivity

description: Primary producers play significant roles in coastal processes and ecological function. These roles include provision of habitat, stabilising substrates and provision of a food source to fauna. Currently, there are very few studies on primary producers in the Kimberley region, contributing to the poor understanding of processes and adaptive mechanisms under extreme environmental conditions. The project has focussed on the data deficient components of benthic primary producers: seagrasses, macroalgae and sediment microalgae and bacterial communities. The objectives of the project were to (a) understand the temporal and spatial variations in biomass and productivity of seagrasses, macroalgae and benthic microalgae (b) investigate the rates and magnitude of microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling processes, and how they influence primary production and (c) to investigate the rates and net effect of herbivory on seagrasses, macroalgae and benthic microalgae.
The seasonal and spatial variability in biomass and growth of selected species of seagrasses and seaweeds was measured during 5 surveys at 5 sites in the Bardi Jawi Indigenous Protected Area (on dates during 2013-2015). The productivity, carbon processes and nutrient cycling of microalgae and bacteria in intertidal and shallow subtidal sediment was also measured. Rates of herbivory were measured at 3 sites during 4 surveys. Stable isotope ratios of the major primary producers were measured at 5 sites.
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dcf816483
title: WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 2.2.4 Benthic primary productivity

description: Primary producers play significant roles in coastal processes and ecological function. These roles include provision of habitat, stabilising substrates and provision of a food source to fauna. Currently, there are very few studies on primary producers in the Kimberley region, contributing to the poor understanding of processes and adaptive mechanisms under extreme environmental conditions. The project has focussed on the data deficient components of benthic primary producers: seagrasses, macroalgae and sediment microalgae and bacterial communities. The objectives of the project were to (a) understand the temporal and spatial variations in biomass and productivity of seagrasses, macroalgae and benthic microalgae (b) investigate the rates and magnitude of microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling processes, and how they influence primary production and (c) to investigate the rates and net effect of herbivory on seagrasses, macroalgae and benthic microalgae.
The seasonal and spatial variability in biomass and growth of selected species of seagrasses and seaweeds was measured during 5 surveys at 5 sites in the Bardi Jawi Indigenous Protected Area (on dates during 2013-2015). The productivity, carbon processes and nutrient cycling of microalgae and bacteria in intertidal and shallow subtidal sediment was also measured. Rates of herbivory were measured at 3 sites during 4 surveys. Stable isotope ratios of the major primary producers were measured at 5 sites.
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dd008dfcf
title: WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 2.2.4 Benthic primary productivity

description: Primary producers play significant roles in coastal processes and ecological function. These roles include provision of habitat, stabilising substrates and provision of a food source to fauna. Currently, there are very few studies on primary producers in the Kimberley region, contributing to the poor understanding of processes and adaptive mechanisms under extreme environmental conditions. The project has focussed on the data deficient components of benthic primary producers: seagrasses, macroalgae and sediment microalgae and bacterial communities. The objectives of the project were to (a) understand the temporal and spatial variations in biomass and productivity of seagrasses, macroalgae and benthic microalgae (b) investigate the rates and magnitude of microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling processes, and how they influence primary production and (c) to investigate the rates and net effect of herbivory on seagrasses, macroalgae and benthic microalgae.
The seasonal and spatial variability in biomass and growth of selected species of seagrasses and seaweeds was measured during 5 surveys at 5 sites in the Bardi Jawi Indigenous Protected Area (on dates during 2013-2015). The productivity, carbon processes and nutrient cycling of microalgae and bacteria in intertidal and shallow subtidal sediment was also measured. Rates of herbivory were measured at 3 sites during 4 surveys. Stable isotope ratios of the major primary producers were measured at 5 sites.
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dd08c5f2e
title: Rottnest Ferries Underway Temperature 2016-08-17

description: This dataset contains the Underway (UWY) data collected on commercial ferries plying the Rottnest to mainland route. Voyages take place on a commercial schedule. A Seabird SBE38 sensor is permanently mounted on the ferry in the engine cooling waster intake. A monitoring computer records sea surface temperature whenever the vessel achieves more than a minimum preprogrammed speed over ground. Position is determined from a GPS unit. Data is transmitted to CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research centre in Hobart on the hour every hour. The vessel traverses the route from Hillarys Boat harbour to Rottnest 3 or four times per day except during a winter vessel maintenance period. This dataset has been processed and is archived within the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre in Floreat, Western Australia
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dd12c51b3
title: Rottnest Ferries Underway Temperature 2016-08-10

description: This dataset contains the Underway (UWY) data collected on commercial ferries plying the Rottnest to mainland route. Voyages take place on a commercial schedule. A Seabird SBE38 sensor is permanently mounted on the ferry in the engine cooling waster intake. A monitoring computer records sea surface temperature whenever the vessel achieves more than a minimum preprogrammed speed over ground. Position is determined from a GPS unit. Data is transmitted to CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research centre in Hobart on the hour every hour. The vessel traverses the route from Hillarys Boat harbour to Rottnest 3 or four times per day except during a winter vessel maintenance period. This dataset has been processed and is archived within the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre in Floreat, Western Australia
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dd1b3f9e4
title: Rottnest Ferries Underway Temperature 2016-09-09

description: This dataset contains the Underway (UWY) data collected on commercial ferries plying the Rottnest to mainland route. Voyages take place on a commercial schedule. A Seabird SBE38 sensor is permanently mounted on the ferry in the engine cooling waster intake. A monitoring computer records sea surface temperature whenever the vessel achieves more than a minimum preprogrammed speed over ground. Position is determined from a GPS unit. Data is transmitted to CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research centre in Hobart on the hour every hour. The vessel traverses the route from Hillarys Boat harbour to Rottnest 3 or four times per day except during a winter vessel maintenance period. This dataset has been processed and is archived within the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre in Floreat, Western Australia
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dd29840c5
title: Rottnest Ferries Underway Temperature 2016-08-31

description: This dataset contains the Underway (UWY) data collected on commercial ferries plying the Rottnest to mainland route. Voyages take place on a commercial schedule. A Seabird SBE38 sensor is permanently mounted on the ferry in the engine cooling waster intake. A monitoring computer records sea surface temperature whenever the vessel achieves more than a minimum preprogrammed speed over ground. Position is determined from a GPS unit. Data is transmitted to CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research centre in Hobart on the hour every hour. The vessel traverses the route from Hillarys Boat harbour to Rottnest 3 or four times per day except during a winter vessel maintenance period. This dataset has been processed and is archived within the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre in Floreat, Western Australia
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dd391b92b
title: Biorig total colour difference data

description: Biorig coupon colour data for mains and stormwater rigs at Mawson Lakes site for the Infrastructure and Aesthetics component of the MARSUO Project.
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dd474105f
title: Density estimates of Spotted Handfish (Brachionichthys hirsutus) - GPS Underwater Visual Census. 2015-2016

description: Dive surveys were conducted in 2015 and 2016 to establish a baseline and monitor the status of the critically endangered spotted handfish (Brachionichthys hirsutus) population. This dataset contains track records of variable length, GPS tracked underwater visual census transects conducted within 11 sites across the Derwent Estuary (n=9) and D'Entrecasteaux Channel (n=2).

Records illustrated search effort (transect length, swathed area) and total fish sighted along each transect. Data were also presented in a standardised unit, with density estimates (fish per hectare [Ha]) extrapolated for each transect. In addition, this dataset also included information for each sighting of individual fish. This dataset contains size measurement (total length) and location (depth, latitude, longitude) records for each sighted fish.
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dd4f30b5c
title: Draft genome assemblies of 380 rhizobia isolates (Bradyrhizobia) from Southwestern Australia

description: Draft genome assemblies of 380 Bradyrhizobium isolates collected from soil samples at the base of Acacia acuminata trees in Southwest Australia
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dd5a852e4
title: Parkes observations for project P934 semester 2016OCTS

description: On the smallest scales, the warm interstellar medium contains surprisingly complex structure, including extremely overdense filaments and blobs of plasma that remain intact for months, despite physical processes that should cause them to disperse on short (week) time scales.   It is possible that magnetization plays a role in confining this plasma.     On these AU length scales the plasma is best probed by observing the scintillations of compact background radio sources such as pulsars and quasars.   Recent observations show that overdensities are confined to narrow regions along lines of sight.  Over the last decade, improvements in the analysis of scintillation have enabled better characterization of these structures.     These studies however have focused on the ISM in the solar-system neighbourhood and the Galactic plane.    Here we propose to observe pulsars at high galactic latitudes to extend the sample lines of sight.  We will determine if the scattering regions are confined to the Galactic plane or persist into the halo of the galaxy.   We will also search for (or place limits on) magnetic field variations within these scattering regions and discrete structures.  Our observations will also provide important constraints on the scintillation of fast radio bursts, extragalactic sources which may be magnified by the similar structures to those studied here.
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dd670e8da
title: RV Investigator Voyage IN2016_T02 End of Voyage (EOV) Archive

description: This record describes the End of Voyage (EOV) archive from the Marine National Facility (MNF) RV Investigator Transit voyage in2016_t02, titled "Natural iron fertilisation of oceans around Australia: linking terrestrial dust and bushfires to marine biogeochemistry."  The voyage took place from Hobart (TAS) to Sydney (NSW) between August 25 and August 29, 2016.

Data collected during the voyage includes:

(1) Acoustic Systems and Navigation: 
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP; 75, 150 KHz ), Fisheries echosounder EK60,  Multibeam Echosounder - EM710, EM122, Sub-bottom Profiler - SBP120, GPS Positioning system, Doppler Velocity Log.

(2) Underway:
Starboard and portside Radiometers, Pyranometers, Radon, Oxygen, CTD, XBTs (Expendable Bathythermographs), Weather Radar, Greenhouse gas analysers - Aerodyne and Picarro, air pressure, wind speed and direction, PAR (Photosynthetically Active Radiation), Ozone, Thermosalinographs, 

(3) Voyage Specific:
CPC: Condensation Particle Counters;  CCN: Cloud Condensation Nuclei Counter; Gravity Meter; MAAP: Multiangle Absorption Photometer; SMPS: Scanning Mobility Particle Sizers; ISAR: Infrared Sea Surface Temperature Autonomous Radiometer.

The EOV, XBT and Bridge logs were supplied and archived in pdf.  ELOG files were generated as .csv and archived.  All voyage documentation is available electronically to MNF support via the local network "global_docs." Access to voyage documentation for non-CSIRO participants can be made via DataLibrariansOAMNF@csiro.au.

The archive for the IN2016_T02 EOV data is curated by the CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere (O&A) Information and Data Centre (IDC) in Hobart, with a permanent archive at the CSIRO Data Access Portal (DAP, https://data.csiro.au/dap/), providing access to participants and processors of the data collected in the MNF RV Investigator IN2016_T02 voyage.
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dd7075c57
title: Parkes observations for project P814 semester 2016OCTS

description: During the past 6 years, we at Parkes and collaborators at other
radio telescopes have been remarkably successful at discovering
millisecond pulsars (MSPs) associated with unidentified Fermi-LAT
gamma-ray sources. Based on lessons learned, we here propose to
extend our P814 project, which so far has yielded 13 new MSPs in
repeated 1-hour searches at 1.4 GHz of unidentified LAT sources
with spectral characteristics that are consistent with those of
known pulsars. The coming 4FGL gamma-ray source catalog contains
hundreds of unidentified sources with better source-class discrimination
than previous catalogs. We have selected the "top 40" of these
sources suitable for Parkes searches. Because of interstellar
scintillation, large orbital acceleration, and eclipses, it is
important to search the most highly ranked sources multiple times.
Here we propose to observe 40 high Galactic latitude unidentified
Fermi sources three times each. The overall time request is 120
hours on source, or 132 hours including overheads.
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dd8d10caa
title: Parkes observations for project P892 semester 2017APRS_BPSR_01

description: SUPERBx is an extension to the SUPERB survey which looks at the highest Galactic latitudes in a search for fast radio bursts (FRBs). We will focus our efforts at high Galactic latitudes where our previous work has shown FRB detectability to be as much as 4 times higher than in the plane. SUPERBx uses optimised GPU codes to search for pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs), making discoveries in real time. Handling our data as it comes in is essential for the SKA Phase I era so this work applies directly to the high-data rates of next generation telescopes. The FRBs discovered (we have already discovered four FRBs in this project) will have much more associated information than all previous detections. Firstly our discovery lag is ~1 second, rather than months/years. The Parkes observations will be shadowed by other radio telescopes (in particular the refurbished Molonglo which has now reached a level of performance where it has independently discovered 3 FRBs in 2016) to allow localisation of the discovered FRBs, and a host of optical and high-energy telescopes will then be triggered as appropriate. This is key for identifying FRB host galaxies, so as to solve the mystery of their progenitors and to exploit their many uses as tools for precision cosmology measurements.
DOI: 10.25919/5c36dd9562913
title: Parkes observations for project P892 semester 2017APRS_BPSR_02

description: SUPERBx is an extension to the SUPERB survey which looks at the highest Galactic latitudes in a search for fast radio bursts (FRBs). We will focus our efforts at high Galactic latitudes where our previous work has shown FRB detectability to be as much as 4 times higher than in the plane. SUPERBx uses optimised GPU codes to search for pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs), making discoveries in real time. Handling our data as it comes in is essential for the SKA Phase I era so this work applies directly to the high-data rates of next generation telescopes. The FRBs discovered (we have already discovered four FRBs in this project) will have much more associated information than all previous detections. Firstly our discovery lag is ~1 second, rather than months/years. The Parkes observations will be shadowed by other radio telescopes (in particular the refurbished Molonglo which has now reached a level of performance where it has independently discovered 3 FRBs in 2016) to allow localisation of the discovered FRBs, and a host of optical and high-energy telescopes will then be triggered as appropriate. This is key for identifying FRB host galaxies, so as to solve the mystery of their progenitors and to exploit their many uses as tools for precision cosmology measurements.