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Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction: Teachers notes and student activities
This colour resource is an 28 page booklet containing information about the law of the sea, maritime zones and managing Australia's jurisdiction. Includes a student activity... -
Geomorphology and Sedimentology of the Northern Marine Planning Area of...
This record is a review and synthesis of geological research undertaken along the northern margin of Australia. The record has been written in support of regional marine... -
Seabed Habitats and Hazards of the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf and Timor Sea,...
The Joseph Bonaparte Gulf and Timor Sea region (JBG-TS) is an area of significance for multiple resource needs, from marine planning to offshore industry development. As such,... -
Marine Zone Management and the EPBC ACT: How Environmental Marine Geological...
In order to protect the diversity of marine life in Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), the federal parliament has passed the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity... -
Distribution, abundance and trail characteristics of acorn worms at...
Acorn worms (Enteropneusta), which were previously thought to be a missing link in understanding the evolution of chordates, are an unusual and potentially important component... -
Effect of sewage nutrients on algal production, biomass and species...
Microalgal blooms are one of the most visible responses to anthropogenic nutrient loadings in coastal ecosystems. However, differentiating sources of nutrients causing blooms... -
Seabed Environments of the Eastern Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, Northern Australia
A seabed mapping survey over a series of carbonate banks, intervening channels and surrounding sediment plains on the Van Diemen Rise in the eastern Joseph Bonaparte Gulf was... -
Geoscience Australia Marine Survey 282 Post-Survey Report: Shallow Gas and...
A range of geophysical indicators have been used to infer the presence of shallow gas in the Arafura Sea. The existence of shallow gas has been confirmed by the analysis of core... -
Biophysical Processes in the Torres Strait Marine Ecosystem II. Survey...
This report contains the preliminary results of Geoscience Australia survey 273 to northwest Torres Strait. This survey was undertaken as part of a research program within the... -
Benthic environments of the Lord Howe Rise submarine plateau: Introduction...
The Australian exclusive economic zone (EEZ) contains1.6 million km2 of submarine plateaus, equal to about 13.8% of the world's known inventory of these features. This... -
Vlaming Sub-basin and Mentelle Basin: Environmental Summary
This report is one of a series of environmental summaries of frontier basins, which are scheduled for acreage release during the timeframe of the 'Energy Security Initiative'... -
Comment on Dye (2006) - "Is Geomorphic Zonation a Useful Predictor of...
In a recent paper, Dye (2006) analyzed the distribution of species of macrobenthos and meiobenthos within two geomorphic facies of four small intermittently closed and open... -
Petrel Sub-basin Marine Survey (GA-0335 / SOL5463) (NLECI Program) - Ecology...
The Petrel Sub-basin Marine Survey GA-0335 (SOL5463) was acquired by the RV Solander during May 2012 as part of the Commonwealth Government's National Low Emission Coal... -
Predicting Seabed Sand Content across the Australian Margin Using Machine...
In this study, we aim to identify the most appropriate methods for spatial interpolation of seabed sand content for the AEEZ using samples extracted on August 2010 from... -
Collaborative East Antarctic Marine Census (CEAMARC): Post-survey report,...
Description of sampling and data acquisition activites carried out by Geoscience Australia staff as part of an Australian Antarctic Division survey to the George V Land margin,... -
Predicting Seabed Mud Content across the Australian Margin: Comparison of...
In this study, we conducted a simulation experiment to identify robust spatial interpolation methods using samples of seabed mud content in the Geoscience Australian Marine... -
Including biogeochemical factors and a temporal component in benthic habitat...
Mapping of benthic habitats seldom considers biogeochemical variables or changes across time. We aimed to: (i) develop winter and summer benthic habitat maps for a sandy... -
Seabed Environments and Shallow Geology of the Leveque Shelf, Western...
Geoscience Australia undertook a marine survey of the Leveque Shelf (survey number SOL5754/GA0340), a sub-basin of the Browse Basin, in May 2013. This survey provides seabed and... -
Mapping and characterising soft-sediment habitats, and evaluating physical...
A series of short field surveys in Jervis Bay, New South Wales, were undertaken by Geoscience Australia staff as part of the Surrogates Program in the Commonwealth Environmental... -
Geomorphology and Sedimentology of the Northwest Marine Region
Literature review and spatial analysis of the sedimentology and geomorphology of the Northwest Marine Region (boundary as defined by the Department of the Environment, Water,...