This database describes the basic variables for the Southern Surveyor cruise of May 2006 and 2007 of a warm core eddies off Western Australia. Position locations, temperature, salinity variables along with some pigment data are provided. This data base is designed for participants of that cruise to use as a share tool.

The Coastal and Marine Resources Information System (CAMRIS) incorporates the Australian estuarine database, which includes the National Estuaries Study (Bucher and Saenger 1989). Attributes include location, name, climatic variables, run-off coefficients, land use, flood frequency, water quality, habitat types including seagrass/mangrove/saltmarsh, fisheries/conservation/amenity values, administration, literature and threats.CAMRIS is a small-scale spatial analysis system developed in collaboration by several divisions of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), as part of the CSIRO Coastal Zone Program. CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology is the custodian of the 'coastal' subset of the Australian Resources Information System (ARIS). Coastal ARIS became the core dataset of the CAMRIS project. The Coastal ARIS database was developed from a coastal inventory developed by Galloway et al. This inventory contained relatively large-scale data including landform, geology, vegetation, soil, land use, climate and population information for each of 3027 3x10km sections around the coastline of mainland Australia and Tasmania but excluding offshore islands. NOTE for Shapefile version: Item names in the ArcView Shapefile for download have been altered due to a 10 character fieldname limitation in the DBF file:Estuary.shp RUNOFF_COEF becomes R_off_coef MAX_TIDAL_RANGE becomes Mx_tid_rng SAND-MUD_AREA becomes Sdmud_area MANGROVE_AREA becomes Mgrve_area SEAGRASS_AREA becomes Sgras_area SALTMARSH_AREA becomes Smrsh_area ESTUARINE_AREA becomes Estua_area GALLOWAY_SECTION becomes Gallwy_sct LANDUSE_CODE becomes Lnduse_cde FLOOD_REGIME becomes Flood_rgme MANGROVE_COVER becomes Mgrove_cvr SEAGRASS_COVER becomes Sgrass_cvr SALTMARSH_COVER becomes Smarsh_cvr FISH_THREAT becomes Fsh_threat CONS_THREAT becomes Con_threat AMENITY_VALUE becomes Amenity_vl

The standing crop (weight of above-ground material) of seagrass at different locations from Cockburn Sound was measured in December 1977.

Data was collected from Cockburn Sound to determine: - the past and present distribution of seagrasses; - the 'standing crop' (weight of above-ground material) of seagrass in December 1977; - the light penetration or attenuation in the water column in Cockburn Sound; - the suitability of water quality for seagrass growth through the use of field transplants of seagrass; and - the primary productivity of Posidonia spp. in Cockburn Sound