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O&A Marine Plankton Collection

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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The O&A Marine Plankton Collection comprises of historical zooplankton samples collected between 1940 - 1996. The collection is housed at the EcoSciences Precinct, Dutton Park, QLD. The collection includes: (1) Phytoplankton and zooplankton samples collected by the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Australian Continuous Plankton Recorder survey (AusCPR) (2) Zooplankton samples from the IMOS National Reference Stations program. (3) Detailed information regarding the plankton collection held at Dutton Park was added in August 2014 (refer to: Plankton_Historic_samples_ sorted_ by_AF_24_06_2014.xlsx). Note that this list is incomplete and is currently only a working list, as such it be updated regularly. Refer to document link below. The collection includes data collected by the following vessels: 1. Diamantina voyages 1959-1963: Indian Ocean, Western Australia, GAB, Jjakarta, Sumatra, North West, during 1970-1973 (1973 Freemantle to Hobart). 2. Derwent Hunter 1954-1961: South East Australia (1959-60), NSW coast (Port Stephens-Jervis Bay) and Tasman Sea (1960), Jervis Bay 1961, 3. Courageous (1978) 4. Gascoyne: 1962, SE Indian Ocean Coastal Station Data: 1. Port Hacking stations: 1959, 1968-1971 2. Batemans Bay 1959-1960, 3. Bermagui 1957-1960 4. Jervis Bay 1958-1960 4. Eden NSW: 1956-1960

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title O&A Marine Plankton Collection
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/9d3620f0-1307-4849-81ea-87341a2c40ac
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Anthony.Richardson@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/01/1940
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "O&A Marine Plankton Collection". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/oa-marine-plankton-collection