WAMSI 2 - DREDGING NODE - PROJECT 4.3 Estimating sediment deposition fields around dredging activities

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

The objective of WAMSI DREDGING SCIENCE NODE Project 4.3 was to better understand the relationship between TSS and the orbital motion of waves using the instrumentation used during the Gorgon dredging program, at multiple sites using the baseline (pre-dredging) data and then during the dredging program. Specifically, the objective was to predict TSS levels based on the orbital velocity of waves and to identify periods where the measured TSS levels are higher than the modelled data predicts and which therefore may indicate turbidity caused by dredging or spoil disposal and which could represent periods of high sediment deposition. The information from the sediment deposition sensor can then be used to verify periods of high(er) sediment deposition.. Data is in the form of a report, which is a secured (printable, non-editable), searchable, Portable Document Format (PDF) showing the results of the analyses.

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Field Value
Title WAMSI 2 - DREDGING NODE - PROJECT 4.3 Estimating sediment deposition fields around dredging activities
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/5cd1f67c-5e0c-4f54-9438-6d9b3414ae4d
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
reception@aims.gov.au
Reference Period 14/02/2019
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "WAMSI 2 - DREDGING NODE - PROJECT 4.3 Estimating sediment deposition fields around dredging activities". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/wamsi-2-dredging-node-project-4-3-estimating-sediment-deposition-fields-around-dredging-activit