Brief 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 biological samples taken during the survey. Fishes were lodges in the CSIRO Fish collection, invertebrate specimens were photographed and distributed to Australian museums for identification by taxonomists, focusing on sponges, corals, echinoderms, ascidians, molluscs and crustaceans. To date (as per Dec 2016) we are aware of 27 manuscripts of taxonomic revisions and/or descriptions that have used material collected from this survey.
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Data source: field surveys;Identification updates received from expert taxonomists are integrated into the catch data.
The data including all upgrades entered until Dec 2016 have been transferred to the CSIRO Information and Data Centre, and loaded into the CSIRO Data Trawler.
Notes
CreditCollaboration with various museums
Funding: CSIRO Wealth from Oceans and DEWHA
Felicity McEnnulty
Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Franzis Althaus
Alan Williams
Data time period: 2007-06-07 to 2007-07-09
text: northlimit=-15.5; southlimit=-21; westlimit=115; eastLimit=124
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RV Southern Surveyor Survey Information including voyage plans and summaries (Data Link)
uri :
https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_list.cfm
URI : https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_list.cfm?source_id=8
(Ship-based operations database (csv extracts))
uri :
https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/download.cfm
URI : https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/download.cfm?file_id=5151
Marine National Facility (Documentation Link)
uri :
https://mnf.csiro.au/
Voyage Plan SS05/2007 (Documentation Link)
uri :
https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/reporting/get_file.cfm
URI : https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/reporting/get_file.cfm?eov_pub_id=787
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- Local : Marlin Record Number: 6938
- Local : Anzlic Identifier: ANZCW0306006938