The Southern Australia Moorings Sub-Facility is part of the National Mooring Network Facility. This sub-facility is establishing a national reference transect of moorings and measurements off South Australia, which includes all parameters measured by the IMOS National Reference Stations (NRS). The South Australia moorings sub-facility is based at the South Australian Research and Development Institute in Adelaide and is responsible for a total of five moorings. These moorings are deployed to continuously monitor the large seasonal coastal upwelling of water that occurs along the region's continental shelf during summer. This upwelling brings cold, nutrient rich waters onto the shelf which boosts primary productivity, creating one of the most productive coastal marine ecosystems in Australian waters. The five moorings measure an array of physical and biological properties and are a combination of four regional moorings and a National Reference Station (biological sampling at SAM5CB, SAM8SG, SAMGSV, SAMUSG and NRS). The regional moorings consist of one shelf mooring located on the same isobath as the NRS and in the path of the upwelled/downwelled exchange, a mooring located near the mouth of Spencer Gulf to measure possible winter outflow of saline rich water, and two moorings situated in Upper Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent. The NRS is located at a convergence point of isobaths and monitors upwelling and outflow events as well as long-term variations in the strength of the coastal current. There are six discontinued moorings that were once part of this sub-facility, for which data is still available: M1 Deep Slope Mooring (SAM1DS) and M6 Investigator Strait Mooring (SAM6IS) were both discontinued in 2009, M4 Canyon Mooring (SAM4CY) and M2 Cabbage Patch Mooring (SAM2CP) were both discontinued in 2010, and M4 Mid-Slope Mooring (SAM3MS) and M7 Deep-Slope Mooring (SAM7DS) which were discontinued in 2013-2014.

The Western Australia Mooring Sub-Facility is part of the National Mooring Network Facility. The Western Australia moorings sub-facility is responsible for a collection of moorings designed to monitor variability in the Leeuwin Current and continental shelf currents both in terms of along-shore and cross-shore variability. Moorings in the region also monitor processes within the Perth Canyon. The time-series monitoring of physical and biological parameters provided by these moorings supplements past and current research activities in the region based at the CSIRO, the Department of Fisheries WA and Western Australian Universities. The sub-facility currently maintains five regional moorings (four decommissioned) and two National Reference Stations. The regional moorings are located off Perth, clustered near the Perth Canyon and the Two Rocks Line. The Two Rocks Line contains four moorings which transect the continental shelf north of Perth from the 44m to the 500m isobath (the 50m mooring was decommissioned in May 2013, and the 150m mooring in October 2013). Around the Perth Canyon, there remains one shelf mooring in shallower water at the head of the canyon, formerly two slope moorings were located near the 500m isobath (decommissioned in July 2010 and March 2014), to monitor processes in and around the canyon. Primarily these moorings are thermistor strings allowing the structure of the Leeuwin Current to be determined. Two of the moorings also sample biogeochemical parameters.

The SA Canyon Mooring (IMOS platform code: SAM4CY) is a discontinued South Australian regional mooring. The data available from this mooring (4/2/09 - 16/03/10) was designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in coastal ocean waters. The mooring is located at Latitude:-36.52, Longitude:136.86.

The SA Deep Slope Mooring (IMOS platform code: SAM1DS) is a discontinued South Australian regional mooring. The data available from this mooring (10/12/08 - 4/06/09) was designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in coastal ocean waters. The mooring is located at Latitude:-36.52, Longitude:136.24.

The IMOS National Reference Station Sub-Facility (NRS) comprises of a series of national reference stations designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in Australian coastal ocean waters. The reference stations increase the number of long term time series observations available to researchers, both in terms of variables recorded, temporal distribution and geographical extent. Data is collected using moored sensors and in monthly water sampling field trips. As the project progresses NRS moorings will be fitted for telemetry and data will become available in real time from each of the NRS sites around Australia (currently only Darwin and Yongala). There are 8 current NRS sites: Two in Queensland, one in the Northern Territory, one in Western Australia, one in Tasmania, one in New South Wales, one in South Australia and one in Victoria. There is one former site at Esperance, the mooring was retrieved in December 2013 and not redeployed; and one former site at Ningaloo Reef, with the mooring retrieved in August 2014 and not redeployed. Operation of the NRS sub-facility is distributed between several operators and is coordinated nationally.

The NRS Kangaroo Island Mooring (IMOS platform code: NRSKAI) is one of a series of National Reference Stations designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in Australian coastal ocean waters. The mooring is located at Latitude:-35.83. Longitude:136.447. Sensor data are collected at the mooring using an NXIC Conductivity Temperature Pressure (CTD) by Falmouth Scientific, a Workhorse Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) by Teledyne RDI and a Water Quality Monitor (WQM) by WETLabs. Parameters measured include temperature, pressure, salinity, chlorophyll concentration and turbidity. Sensor data are available in quality controlled NetCDF format from the IMOS OPeNDAP server. Biogeochemical data are also available.

The Western Australia (WA) Perth Canyon 500m North Mooring (IMOS code WACASO) was deployed in January 2010. This mooring was decommissioned in January 2014. Data is downloaded from instruments on the mooring. Parameters collected are Temperature.

The NRS Rottnest Island Mooring (IMOS platform code: NRSROT) is one of a series of national reference stations designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in Australian coastal ocean waters. The mooring is located at Latitude:-32, Longitude: 115.416. 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.

The Western Australia (WA) Perth Canyon 500m North Mooring (IMOS code WACANO) was deployed in January 2010, and decommissioned in July of that year. Data is downloaded from instruments on the mooring. Parameters collected are Temperature.