The Seabed Mapping and Characterisation project provides fundamental geoscientific information for Australia's seabed. The project coordinates the delivery of products to the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism in support of the Offshore Energy Security Program. The website links to: * GEOMACS: Modelling of Sediment Mobility on the Continental Shelf * MARS: Marine Samples Database * Gulf of Carpentaria Reefs

The auSEABED was created by Dr. Chris Jenkins, a former staff member of School of Geoscience, to describe the materials of the Australian Maritime Region - in all, an area comprising 1/12 of the earth's globe. Because of Australia's relatively small population base and inadequate funding for at-sea science, maximum use of existing data had to be made to achieve a workable mapping. This motivated research into the use of datasets that were diverse in their methods, navigation, technologies, aims, standards, formats - and whether numeric or linguistic. The research resulted in a data mining system designed especially for the seabed. These web pages describe the digital GIS coverages that are now available for the seabed materials of the Australian maritime areas.

Salinity data collected on the Australian shelf between 1995 to 2014 have been assembled into a single data collection. Profiles, trajectories and timeseries datasets within the 500m depth contour and collected by different organisations have been included. A full list of datasets used to produce this collection is provided below: The Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS): Seals CTD profiles Argo profiles Glider deployments CTD Casts performed at National Reference Station Moorings AUV deployments Sensor networks in the Great Barrier Reef Ship underway Royal Australian Navy (RAN): Sea Surface Temperature measurements on NSW coast The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS): CTD casts Defence Science and Technology Organisation: Glider deployments Charles Darwin University – Xavier Hoenner: Hawksbill Turtles CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere: Moorings Trajectory Underway World Ocean Database 2013 (WOD) – standard depth data products: XBT profiles (XBT) CTD casts (CTD) Surface only data (SUR) Undulating Oceano Recorder (UOR) Salinity measurements from the different sources have been assembled into a common data structure in a relational database. Quality Control flags have been mapped to a common scheme and associated to each measurements. Around 25 Million measurements are available in this dataset collection. Datasets like gliders, moorings or ship underway are sampled at high resolution (e.g.: data every seconds). A sub-sampling approach has been applied to some of these datasets in order to reduce the number of measurements. For example, ship underway data have been averaged over a period of 1 minute and sub-sampled every 5 minutes. Hourly average have been performed on most of the moorings timeseries. Various quality control checks have been performed on the dataset. A full list of quality control checks is available in the Lineage section of the metadata records. A national shelf and coastal data atlas has been created using all the salinity measurements. The observations have been binned on an horizontal grid of ¼ degree with standard vertical levels (every 10 meters from the surface to -500m). Moreover, a monthly time range have been used over the period January 1995 to December 2014. The number of observations in each grid square has been determined and additional statistics have been calculated like the mean, the standard deviation, the minimum and maximum values for each grid square. Two WFS services have been created to publish the individual observations, and the statistics, used to produce the data atlas.

This dataset represents a subset of the global distribution of warm water coral reefs for Jarvis Island and should be seen as an "interim" product. It has been compiled from a number of data sources which have been merged together by UNEP-WCMC and the WorldFish Centre in collaboration with WRI and TNC. It supersedes the dataset used in the World Atlas of Coral Reefs (2001), although some aspects of this product still originate from that data source. This amalgamated dataset has been created to further mobilise the Millennium Coral Reef Map Products and their validation. This data set should by no means replace the official release of the Millennium coral reef map and users should always check at the official sites for the most up-to-date available information. This dataset does not contain the full 5 level geomorphological categorization. In part, for the validated products, it maintains the simplified Reefbase subset but for the remaining areas i.e. the unvalidated data and data from other sources, there is only a single class to indicate coral reef. When using these data, please cite the following: UNEP-WCMC, WorldFish Centre, WRI, TNC (2010). Global distribution of warm-water coral reefs, compiled from multiple sources including the Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project. Version 1.3. Includes contributions from IMaRS-USF and IRD (2005), IMaRS-USF (2005) and Spalding et al. (2001). Cambridge (UK): UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. For more information go to: http://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/1

This dataset represents a subset of the global distribution of warm water coral reefs for Wake Island and should be seen as an "interim" product. It has been compiled from a number of data sources which have been merged together by UNEP-WCMC and the WorldFish Centre in collaboration with WRI and TNC. It supersedes the dataset used in the World Atlas of Coral Reefs (2001), although some aspects of this product still originate from that data source. This amalgamated dataset has been created to further mobilise the Millennium Coral Reef Map Products and their validation. This data set should by no means replace the official release of the Millennium coral reef map and users should always check at the official sites for the most up-to-date available information. This dataset does not contain the full 5 level geomorphological categorization. In part, for the validated products, it maintains the simplified Reefbase subset but for the remaining areas i.e. the unvalidated data and data from other sources, there is only a single class to indicate coral reef. When using these data, please cite the following: UNEP-WCMC, WorldFish Centre, WRI, TNC (2010). Global distribution of warm-water coral reefs, compiled from multiple sources including the Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project. Version 1.3. Includes contributions from IMaRS-USF and IRD (2005), IMaRS-USF (2005) and Spalding et al. (2001). Cambridge (UK): UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. For more information go to: http://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/1

Larval fishes are a useful metric of marine ecosystem state and change, as well as species-specific patterns in phenology. This information sheds light on larval distribution and spawning for fisheries management needs. This dataset includes larval fish abundances collected from 12 voyages around Australia since 1983, as well as more recent data from the Marine National Facility (MNF). The backbone of the dataset is from five Integrated Marine Observing Systems (IMOS) National Reference Stations (NRS) (North Stradbroke, Port Hacking, Maria Island, Kangaroo Island and Rottnest Island), between 2014 and 2021 as part of the IMOS Larval Fish Monitoring Sub-Facility of the National Mooring Network Facility (data currently available up to 2021). This adds information to the biological, ecological and oceanic measurements already sampled at these long-term monitoring sites. For information on using the data from the NRS stations and research voyages, please refer to Smith et al., 2018. It is advised that anyone using this data should read this methodology or contact the project contact person to understand the nuances of each sampling and analysis chain. The fish larvae product is available as raw count product, where fish larvae are classified to the lowest taxonomic level possible (with 228 taxonomic groups identified so far, at either the Family, Genus, or Species level). Associated metadata includes location, temperature, salinity, net type, and tow volume. There is a static snapshot of the database as at March 2018 (https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/69/5ab33c62f9c52), and this has been documented in a Scientific Data publication (Smith et al., 2018). This metadata record provides access to the dynamic (most recent) version of the database, which can serve as a data repository for survey of larval fish assemblages in the region.

This dataset represents a subset of the global distribution of warm water coral reefs for the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) and should be seen as an "interim" product. It has been compiled from a number of data sources which have been merged together by UNEP-WCMC and the WorldFish Centre in collaboration with WRI and TNC. It supersedes the dataset used in the World Atlas of Coral Reefs (2001), although some aspects of this product still originate from that data source. This amalgamated dataset has been created to further mobilise the Millennium Coral Reef Map Products and their validation. This data set should by no means replace the official release of the Millennium coral reef map and users should always check at the official sites for the most up-to-date available information. This dataset does not contain the full 5 level geomorphological categorization. In part, for the validated products, it maintains the simplified Reefbase subset but for the remaining areas i.e. the unvalidated data and data from other sources, there is only a single class to indicate coral reef. When using these data, please cite the following: UNEP-WCMC, WorldFish Centre, WRI, TNC (2010). Global distribution of warm-water coral reefs, compiled from multiple sources including the Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project. Version 1.3. Includes contributions from IMaRS-USF and IRD (2005), IMaRS-USF (2005) and Spalding et al. (2001). Cambridge (UK): UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. For more information go to: http://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/1

Fish larvae were sampled along a five-station transect extending from inshore (18m depth) to offshore waters (1000m depth) of the coast of South-Western Australia (see thumbnail). 148 taxa from 93 teleost families were identified. The temporal and spatial structure of the fish assemblages were analysed in relation to the environmental variables. Assemblages were closely correlated to water masses (Capes and Leeuwin Current)

This dataset represents a subset of the global distribution of warm water coral reefs for Kingman Reef and should be seen as an "interim" product. It has been compiled from a number of data sources which have been merged together by UNEP-WCMC and the WorldFish Centre in collaboration with WRI and TNC. It supersedes the dataset used in the World Atlas of Coral Reefs (2001), although some aspects of this product still originate from that data source. This amalgamated dataset has been created to further mobilise the Millennium Coral Reef Map Products and their validation. This data set should by no means replace the official release of the Millennium coral reef map and users should always check at the official sites for the most up-to-date available information. This dataset does not contain the full 5 level geomorphological categorization. In part, for the validated products, it maintains the simplified Reefbase subset but for the remaining areas i.e. the unvalidated data and data from other sources, there is only a single class to indicate coral reef. When using these data, please cite the following: UNEP-WCMC, WorldFish Centre, WRI, TNC (2010). Global distribution of warm-water coral reefs, compiled from multiple sources including the Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project. Version 1.3. Includes contributions from IMaRS-USF and IRD (2005), IMaRS-USF (2005) and Spalding et al. (2001). Cambridge (UK): UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. For more information go to: http://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/1

Sea level and meteorological data collected during various projects in Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent, South Australia since 1990.