0cf0e1eb-8033-4fe2-9656-37529daa0523 urn:uuid eng UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2025-06-23T14:42:18 creation ISO 19115 2016 Satellite Relay Tagging Program - Southern Ocean - MEOP Quality Controlled CTD Profiles 0cf0e1eb-8033-4fe2-9656-37529daa0523 CTD (Conductivity-Temperature_Depth)-Satellite Relay Data Loggers (CTD-SRDLs) are used to explore how marine animal behaviour relates to their oceanic environment. Loggers developed at the University of St Andrews Sea Mammal Research Unit transmit data in near real-time via the Argo satellite system. Data represented here was collected in the Southern Ocean, from elephant, fur and Weddell Seals. In 2024 data was added from flatback and olive ridley turtles, from a pilot study co-funded by the Royal Australian Navy in collaboration with the Australian Institute of Marine Science and Indigenous Ranger groups. Data parameters measured by the instruments include time, conductivity (salinity), temperature, pressure and depth. The data represented by this record have been Qc'd and are the Australian subset of the MEOP-CTD database (MEOP: Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole), complemented with the most recent Southern Ocean deployment data. This Australian subset of the Southern Ocean database represents about one quarter of the entire MEOP-CTD database, which currently is about 52,000 profiles obtained from 275 CTD-SRDL tag deployments. The Australian dataset originated in 2004, and was initially collected by Mark Hindell's team based at the University of Tasmania, and in later years his data has formed part of the Animal Tracking Facility of Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS). Agency | SMRU | Sea Mammal Research Unit CTD Satellite Relay Data Logger Continents | Antarctica Countries | Australia Countries | Australia (including external territories) Countries | Indonesia Countries | New Zealand Global / Oceans | Atlantic Ocean Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean Marine Features (Australia) | Bass Strait, TAS/VIC Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Mammals Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Reptiles Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity Offshore Islands (Australia) | Heard & McDonald Islands Offshore Islands (Australia) | Macquarie Island Regional Seas | Arafura Sea Regional Seas | Tasman Sea Regional Seas | Timor Sea States, Territories (Australia) | New South Wales States, Territories (Australia) | Northern Territory States, Territories (Australia) | Queensland States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania States, Territories (Australia) | Victoria Tags and Tracking Devices Animal Tracking Facility page on IMOS website documentDigital HTML Data Paper describing the Southern Ocean Database documentDigital HTML Paper - A review of the MEOP consortium documentDigital PDF GitHub repository for MEOP documentDigital HTML Best Practice Manual for SMRU CTD Satellite Relay Data Loggers documentDigital PDF View and download data though the AODN Portal documentDigital HTML View profile plots from Oceancurrent SealCTDs page documentDigital HTML imos:aatams_sattag_qc_ctd_profile_map documentDigital Qc'd CTD data WMS aatams_sattag_qc_ctd_profile_data documentDigital This OGC WFS service returns filtered geographic information. The returned data is available in multiple formats including CSV. WFS OGC WFS help documentation documentDigital HTML aatams_sattag_qc_ctd_profile_map#url documentDigital The ncUrlList is a WFS service that returns a list of URLs matching a query. HTML ncUrlList help documentation documentDigital HTML Access To AWS Open Data Program registry for the Cloud Optimised version of this dataset documentDigital HTML Access to Jupyter notebook to query Cloud Optimised converted dataset documentDigital HTML Website for the Integrated Marine Observing System documentDigital HTML Department of Defence website documentDigital HTML Unnamed resource documentDigital License Graphic PNG Unnamed resource documentDigital HTML