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Brief description
The NRS Port Hacking Referece Station (IMOS site code: NRSPHB) is one of a series of national reference stations designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in Australian coastal ocean waters. It is located at -34.116S, 151.219E. Biogeochemical sampling is being performed at the mooring site as part of the National Reference Station water sampling program. Sampling commenced in February 2009 and is conducted monthly. Related sensor data are obtained at the Port Hacking 100m Mooring (PH100, part of the ANMN-NSW sub-facility), approximately 800 metres away.Lineage
Maintenance and Update Frequency: continual
Statement: NATIONAL REFERENCE STATIONS
The IMOS national reference stations will extend the number of long term time series observations in Australian coastal waters in terms of variables recorded both in their temporal distribution and geographical extent. It will also provide for biological, physical and chemical sampling and for 'ground truth' of remotely sensed observations. Currently there are only 3 long term reference stations and these would be extended to 9 distributed around the continent.
At each coastal reference station a mooring will be deployed with sensors for conductivity, temperature, depth, fluorescence, dissolved oxygen, photo-synthetically available radiation (PAR), fluorescence and measurement of turbidity at three depths - the surface, seabed and an intermediate depth. At the seafloor Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) will be deployed. All reference stations will telemeter a reduced data set via Iridium satellite for real time monitoring.
Physical sampling will be undertaken at each of the reference stations on a monthly basis. The physical samples will be analysed for nutrients, plankton species, both visibly and genetically, and pCO2. Biological sampling will greatly improve Australia's capability to meet its obligations for ecosystem based management and allow many researchers the opportunity to investigate possible long term changes in ecology that are likely to be linked to climate variability and wide scale validation of remotely sensed (satellite) observations of plant biomass.
Notes
CreditAustralia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). It is operated by a consortium of institutions as an unincorporated joint venture, with the University of Tasmania as Lead Agent.
Credit
Sydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS)
Sydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS)
Created: 10 03 2009
Modified: 02 11 2011
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Subjects
Alkalinity |
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS |
BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY |
BIOSPHERE |
Carbon Dioxide |
Conductivity |
CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers) |
EARTH SCIENCE |
Fluorescence |
Fluorometers |
IMOS Platform | NRSPHB | Port Hacking National Reference Station Mooring |
Inorganic Carbon |
Nutrients |
OCEAN CHEMISTRY |
OCEAN CIRCULATION |
Ocean Currents |
OCEAN OPTICS |
OCEAN TEMPERATURE |
OCEANS |
Oxygen |
Photosynthetically Active Radiation |
Plankton |
SALINITY/DENSITY |
States, Territories (Australia) | New South Wales |
Turbidity |
Water Depth |
Water Temperature |
oceans |
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Other Information
(Access to historical dataset for Port Hacking National Reference Station (1953 to 2007))
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Identifiers
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