The WA Museum with funding from Strategic Research Fund for the Marine Environment (SRFME) focused on documenting the fauna of the Central West Coast, Western Australia, specifically the diversity of fishes, molluscs, crustaceans, echinoderms, scleractinian corals and sponges. The specific locations were Jurien Bay and Green Head localities with a focus on the Jurien Bay Marine Park, and Cervantes to the South and Dongara to the North.

The Flinders Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR) survey was a pilot study undertaken in August 2012 as part of the National Marine Biodiversity Hub's National monitoring evaluation and reporting theme. The aim of this theme is to develop a blueprint for the sustained monitoring of the South-east CMR Network. The particular aims of the survey were twofold; 1) to contribute to an inventory of demersal and epibenthic conservation values in the reserve and 2) to test methodologies and deployment strategies in order to inform future survey design efforts. Several gear types were deployed; including multibeam sonar, shallow-water (less than 150m) Baited Remote Underwater Video Systems (BRUVS), deep- water BRUVS (to 600 m), towed video and digital stereo stills. This resource contains the deep-water BRUVS footage captured on the slope (~500m depth) of two sites: the Flinders CMR and the adjacent Cape Barren fisheries closure. At each site 3 stereo deepBRUVS were deployed over a 3-day period, during which they recorded between 11 and 15 1-hour sampling events each.

Between 1998 and 2000 a partnership between the Western Australian Museum and Woodside Energy Ltd. was formed to survey and collect the marine flora and fauna of the Dampier Archipelago. Techniques employed during the surveys of the Dampier Archipelago included SCUBA diving, shore collecting, dredging, underwater photography of living specimens and video recording of the ocean floor, which resulted in the recording of more than 4 500 species, including 268 new to science. Many publications resulted from this survey and a website was created to distribute this valuable information.

This project was undertaken in collaboration with CRC Reefs partners the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the Queensland Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries (QDPI&F), and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and the Queensland Museum (QM). The GBR Seabed Biodiversity Project aimed to map seafloor habitats and characterised their associated fauna and flora at more than 1,500 locations in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (GBRWHA). The research provided new information on the biodiversity of inter-reefal communities in the GBRWHA that provided important imput into management plans. The development of a bioregional scale understanding of the significant large marine ecosystems in Australia's tropical waters contributed to the use and protection of Australia's marine resources. This collection includes: Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations (BRUVs), single-beam acoustics, epibenthic sled, scientific trawl, sample processing at sea, laboratory processing and identification, transect substratum and biohabitat for analysis including: Substratum: soft mud, silt(sandy-mud), sand, coarse sand, sand waves/dunes, rubble(5-50mm), stones(50-250mm), rocks(>250mm), bedrock/reef. Biohabitat: no biohabitat, bioturbated, percentage of coverage of Alcyonarians, Whip, Gorgonian, Sponge, Hard Coral, Live Reef Corals, Flora, Algae, Halimeda, Caulerpa, Seagrass, Bivalve Shell Beds, Squid Eggs, Tube Polychaete Beds. 1.5m epibenthic sled tow sampled biota for records, preserved on vessel, and retained for lab sorting. Sample taxa identified to alpha taxonomy, species name if identified. Most samples added to the collections of the Queensland Museum. Sediment sampling included analysis processed by Geoscience of percentage of carbonate, gravel grainsize fraction, sand grainsize fraction mud grainsize fraction. Echogram data was collected along the vessel tracks. Please note: as other parties were involved in the collection of the data, that additional permission may be required for its use and/or distribution.

This report provides details of activities undertaken by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), Geoscience Australia, the University of Western Australia and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory during a marine biodiversity survey to the Oceanic Shoals Commonwealth Marine Reserve (Timor Sea) in 2012. The survey was an activity within the Australian Government's National Environmental Research Program Marine Biodiversity Hub and is a key component of Theme 4 - Regional Biodiversity Discovery to Support Marine Bioregional Plans. Data collected during the survey will be used to support research being undertaken in other Themes of the Marine Biodiversity Hub, including the modelling of ecosystem processes for the northern region, and to support the work programs of the Department of Environment.

This report provides details of activities undertaken by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), Geoscience Australia, the University of Western Australia and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory during a marine biodiversity survey to the Oceanic Shoals Commonwealth Marine Reserve (Timor Sea) in 2012. The survey was an activity within the Australian Government's National Environmental Research Program Marine Biodiversity Hub and is a key component of Theme 4 - Regional Biodiversity Discovery to Support Marine Bioregional Plans. Data collected during the survey will be used to support research being undertaken in other Themes of the Marine Biodiversity Hub, including the modelling of ecosystem processes for the northern region, and to support the work programs of the Department of Environment.