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Secchi Disc data measured during a high rainfall event in Port Jackson, 23...
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... -
Herbert River Lucinda Jetty Turbidity Data Transect Sunday 15th February 2004
The objective of the research reported in this thesis was to develop a technique to monitor the dynamics of sediments and nutrients entering the coastal ocean with river plumes... -
Orman Reef Seagrass Survey, Torres Strait, November 2018 (TropWATER, JCU)
This dataset summarises intertidal benthic surveys of Kai and Gariar Reefs (Orman Reefs, Torres Strait) in November 2018 into 3 GIS shapefiles. (1) The site shapefile describes... -
IMOS SOOP Sea Surface Temperature Data collected on the Merchant Vessel Sea...
This dataset contains Sea Surface Temperature (SST) underway observations collected on trips of a ferry (MV Sea Flyte - VHW5167) between Hillarys Boat Harbour and Rottnest... -
Geology of the Wet Tropics Bioregion (WTMA)
This dataset contains polygons depicting geology as deliniated by botanist J.P.Stanton and geologist D.J.Stanton within the Wet Tropics bioregion. The geology mapping of the Wet... -
Wind Speed and Direction for Davies Reef - 1993
This metadata record covers a subset of the data collected during dredging by the Townsville Port Authority in Cleveland Bay in 1993. Data are divided into a number of main... -
Aerial surveys of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) from Eddystone Point to...
An aerial survey was conducted for giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) on the east coast of Tasmania from Eddystone Point to Southeast Cape. This survey represents part of a... -
Water Quality dataset, Great Barrier Reef
Each collection station is denoted by date, latitude and longitude. The data were sampled at several depths at each site: the number of samples was primarily, but not always,... -
Kimberley Benthic Habitat Survey - Benthic Habitat Distribution Maps
Four locations along the Kimberley coast were video and depth surveyed to describe the substratum type, biohabitat type and the bathymetry of the seabed. Video and depth data... -
Changes in seagrass coverage in Cockburn Sound, Western Australia between...
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... -
[SUPERSEDED] Australia's network of Commonwealth Marine Reserves 2014 (DCCEEW)
This dataset is not the current marine park zoning. It is retained here for historic purposes. See... -
Aurora Australis Voyage 3 2016/17 Track and Underway Data
On every voyage of the Aurora Australis, approximately 50 onboard sensors collect data on average every 10 seconds. These data are known as the underway datasets. The type of... -
Slocum glider deployed by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation...
This dataset represents Slocum glider data collected by Glider090 deployed in the Coral Sea during Exercise Talisman Sabre in July 2011. Slocum glider data from the oceans... -
Parent record: Water exchange processes between Jervis Bay and shelf waters
This record describes components of the 'Jervis Bay Baseline Studies' project conducted by the Department of Defence, CSIRO and Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA). The... -
Phytoplankton concentration measurements in Sydney Harbour - 29th October 2004
A study of the response of phytoplankton to rainfall in Sydney Harbour, on the 29th of October 2004, is reported here. Sydney Harbour is an important port and recreational... -
Aurora Australis Voyage 2 1996-97 Underway Data
This dataset contains the underway data collected during the Aurora Australis Voyage 2 1996-97. This voyage departed Hobart for Casey and then travelled to Davis after... -
Australian Marine Parks and Zoning (DAWE)
This dataset corresponds to the zoning of Commonwealth Marine Parks managed by Parks Australia. This metadata is a non-authoritative extract maintained for the eAtlas. See links... -
Ocean temperatures over time estimated from planktonic foraminifera...
In recent years the term 'enhanced greenhouse effect' has become well known in modern society and yet aspects of this possible 'future climate' are poorly understood. The... -
Octocorals (soft coral) of the Great Barrier Reef - Spatial interpolation -...
The purpose of this study was to quantify patterns in octocoral biodiversity and their environmental drivers on the GBR. The data are based on visual surveys of octocoral... -
Gulf of Carpentaria Mangrove Aerial Shoreline Surveys 2017 & 2019 (NESP TWQ...
This project investigated the cause of the extensive areas of mangroves across the Gulf of Carpentaria which died in late 2015. Images from local fisherman showed extended...