Full description
The overall aims were to provide data on the distribution of deep seabed habitats and fauna that are amenable to scientific hypothesis testing, can be immediately applied to marine resource management processes, and that enable strategic development of tools and techniques for understanding the processes that maintain deep sea biodiversity. This work was to support the process of NWR Estate inventory and management performance assessment by providing interpreted benthic habitat maps, faunal inventories, distribution maps and conservation values. Data will be collected at scientific reference sites from potential MPA areas that can be re-visited for monitoring purposes in the future. Sampling along environmental gradients (geographic range and depth) in this section of Australia's coast will also provide the opportunity to evaluate biogeographic hypotheses. Further refinement of predictive methods for identifying seabed habitat types, initially developed in temperate and cool-temperate environments, will be enabled by data collection from this tropical location in Australia. We intended to highlight the importance of this underlying science as a modern 'Voyage of Discovery' given the likely significance of the findings in terms of Australia's biodiversity and its biogeography and evolution. (From Voyage Plan)This record describes the video and still imagery collected with the CSIRO deep-towed camera system. Imagery has not been systematically annotated or scored. The associated videos and still images have been archived as described in MarLIN record 14436 'Benthic Habitats Video Image Archive'
Lineage
Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeeded
Statement: Data source: field surveys
Notes
CreditFunding: Department of the Environment and Water resources
Credit
Wealth from Oceans Flagship
Wealth from Oceans Flagship
Credit
Bruce Barker
Bruce Barker
Credit
Alan Williams
Alan Williams
Credit
Matt Sherlock
Matt Sherlock
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Jeff Cordell
Jeff Cordell
Credit
Pamela Brodie
Pamela Brodie
Data time period: 2007-06-07 to 2007-07-07
text: westlimit=115; southlimit=-21; eastlimit=124; northlimit=-15.5; projection=AGD84
text: uplimit=-32; downlimit=-1065
Subjects
ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) |
Acoustic Equipment/Echosounders |
Benthic habitat image surveys and analysis |
Cameras - Still - Underwater |
Cameras - Video - Underwater |
Coastal Waters (Australia) | West Australia Coast North, WA |
Current direction in the water body |
Current speed in the water body |
Earth Science | Biological Classification | Animals/Invertebrates |
Earth Science | Biological Classification | Animals/Invertebrates | Arthropods | Crustaceans |
Earth Science | Biological Classification | Animals/Invertebrates | Arthropods | Crustaceans | Decapods |
Earth Science | Biological Classification | Animals/Invertebrates | Cnidarians | Anthozoans/Hexacorals |
Earth Science | Biological Classification | Animals/Invertebrates | Echinoderms |
Earth Science | Biological Classification | Animals/Invertebrates | Mollusks |
Earth Science | Biological Classification | Animals/Invertebrates | Segmented Worms (Annelids) |
Earth Science | Biological Classification | Animals/Invertebrates | Sponges |
Earth Science | Biosphere | Aquatic Ecosystems | Benthic Habitat |
Earth Science | Biosphere | Aquatic Ecosystems | Marine Habitat |
Earth Science | Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Community Dynamics | Community Structure |
Earth Science | Human Dimensions | Environmental Impacts | Conservation |
Earth Science | Oceans | Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography | Continental Margins |
Earth Science | Oceans | Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography | Seafloor Topography |
Earth Science | Oceans | Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography | Submarine Canyons |
Earth Science | Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sediment Composition |
Earth Science | Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sedimentary Structures |
Earth Science | Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sedimentary Textures |
Earth Science | Oceans | Marine Sediments | Terrigenous Sediments |
Eastward current velocity in the water body |
Global / Oceans | East Indian Ocean |
Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean |
Multibeam Echosounder |
Northward current velocity in the water body |
Research Voyage: SS 05/2007 |
Ship: Southern Surveyor |
Survey of the North West Slope for NRSMPA and Regional Marine Planning |
Underwater Surveys (acquisition and/or analysis) |
Upward current velocity in the water body |
current profilers |
oceans |
research vessel |
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Other Information
Voyage Plan SS05/2007 (Documentation Link)
url :
https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/reporting/get_file.cfm?eov_pub_id=787![]()
Identifiers
- Local : Anzlic Identifier: ANZCW0306006895
- Local : Marlin Record Number: 6895
- global : bc1b3741-e25a-5039-e044-00144f7bc0f4
