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Sensor-Float 1 deployment at Orpheus Island as part of the Facility for the Automated Intelligent Monitoring of Marine Systems - FAIMMS

Created 24/06/2017

Updated 11/08/2023

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A round 1.4m yellow buoy has been deployed in Little Pioneer Bay, Orpheus Island, just off the research station in the central part of the Great Barrier Reef.

The buoy is configured as a sensor-float with a Campbell Scientific logger, a spread-spectrum radio for communicating with the base station (located near the Research Station) a surface mounted (60cm under the water surface) thermistor and an inductive modem to support a range of inductive sensors, initially this will be a SeaBird SBE39 measuring temperature and pressure (depth).

The float is moored at the entrance to Little Pioneer Bay, just deep of the reef front and will be used to measure the water entering the bay with particular interest in warm water pushing up into the bay. The data will support work being done in the bay by James Cook University researchers.

The unit will be serviced every six months and will be used in the future for attaching new sets of sensors.

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Title Sensor-Float 1 deployment at Orpheus Island as part of the Facility for the Automated Intelligent Monitoring of Marine Systems - FAIMMS
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/2160de0b-fa6c-4986-9f99-6317ba051685
Contact Point
Australian Institute of Marine Science
reception@aims.gov.au
Reference Period 24/06/2017
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Data.gov.au