Brief description
Temperate WA (Kendrick, Babcock, Smale): A cruise was undertaken in collaboration with the University of Western Australian and CSIRO to document benthic assemblages on temperate reefs off the coast of Western Australia in April, 2010. This cruise was the first in a 3 year series of IMOS AUV Facility cruises intended to establish a benthic habitat timeseries along the Eastern and Western coasts of Australia. The expectation is that these surveys will be repeated annually for at least the next two years. Surveys were conducted off Rottnest Island, Jurien Bay, and the Abrolhos Islands. Six sites were surveyed at each location spanning three depths (15 m, 25 m, 40 m), both inside and outside MPAs, with three 25 m x 25 m full photo coverage quadrants devoted to each site. Site locations targeted kelp beds and were provided by the science party. The locations of individual quadrants within each site were decided on‐site, based on bathymetric or depth sounder information. Additional scientific operations carried out during the cruise consisted of CTD casts, HOBO logger equipped moorings deployments, and SCUBA.Lineage
This data is provided by the IMOS AUV Facility and was collected by the University of Sydney's Australian Centre for Field Robotics aboard the TAFI Research Vessel R/V Challenger. The AUV Sirius undertook seafloor survey deployments along the Tasmanian Peninsula, at Port Arthur and in the Huon Channel between October 5th and 16th, 2008. This represents a first pass processing completed while onboard the ship. A more thorough revision may be available in the future. In all 19 dives were completed, in addition to a number of calibration dives which are not contained on this disk. Each mission has been processed to generate a dive report, dive tracks, geotifs and meshes. Multibeam and hydrographic data have been completed for some but not all dives. The structure of each dive summary is as follows: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
Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR)
Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR)
Credit
Commonwealth Environmental Research Facility (CERF) Marine Biodiversity Research Hub
Commonwealth Environmental Research Facility (CERF) Marine Biodiversity Research Hub
Created: 10 04 2010
Data time period: 01 04 2010 to 30 04 2010
text: northlimit=-13.50; southlimit=-35.50; westlimit=112.50; eastLimit=129.00
Subjects
BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY |
Chlorophyll |
Conductivity |
CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers) |
Cameras | Still Cameras - underwater |
Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) |
Countries | Australia |
Current Meters/Profilers | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) |
Data Loggers |
Digital Imaging (acquisition and/or analysis) |
EARTH SCIENCE |
Fluorescence |
Field Surveys | Underwater Surveys |
Fluorometers |
IMOS Facility | AUV | Autonomous Underwater Vehicle |
Marine Planning Regions (Australia) | South-east |
OCEAN CHEMISTRY |
OCEAN OPTICS |
OCEAN TEMPERATURE |
OCEANS |
Organic Matter |
Oxygen |
SALINITY/DENSITY |
Seafloor Topography |
SONAR |
Seabed Vehicles |
States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania |
Turbidity |
Turbulence Sensors |
Water Depth |
Water Temperature |
altitude |
concentration_of_coloured_dissolved_organic_matter |
depth |
heading |
latitude |
longitude |
mass_concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water |
oceans |
optical_backscatter |
platform_pitch_angle |
platform_roll_angle |
sea_water_salinity |
sea_water_temperature |
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