WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - 3.2.1 - Plume Characteristics (Field) - Field Trip 2

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

3D plume mapping was conducted over a 10 day period at Chevron’s Wheatstone dredging operation near Onslow Western Australia. Dredge plums created by a cutter suction dredge were sampled from CSIRO vessel RV Linnaeus on voyage number LI2014_v11. Underway measurements were made using a ship mounted ADCP to measure vertical velocity profiles and backscatter intensity and DALEC that measured the spectral qualities of incoming and reflected sea surface light. Profile data were collected using LISST (particle size distributions) , CTD (backscatter, temperature and salinity), Hydroscat, Hydrorad (used measure light profiles, extinction coefficients , and scattering properties). Surface and bottom water samples were be collected at selected sites and analyzed for particle size distributions A mooring was deployed for 8 days in 8 metres of water. The mooring consisted of two Acoustic Doppler Velocimeters (ADVs) and an ADCP

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Title WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - 3.2.1 - Plume Characteristics (Field) - Field Trip 2
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/156cc9da-9f71-4ad4-90d2-99898cfebfa8
Remote Last Updated 20/05/2021
Contact Point
Western Australian Marine Science Institution
nick.mortimer@csiro.au
Reference Period 03/05/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Western Australia Government "WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - 3.2.1 - Plume Characteristics (Field) - Field Trip 2". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/draft-wamsi-2-dredging-node-2-3-2-plume-characteristics-field-field-trip-2_bcd6