12638ac0-d242-4c06-9f81-d9bb1c5f8602 urn:uuid eng UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2025-06-23T12:05:47 creation ISO 19115 2016 IMOS - New Technology Proving - Profiling Moorings Evaluation 12638ac0-d242-4c06-9f81-d9bb1c5f8602 Profiling Moorings Evaluation trialled the deployment of two different commercially available profiling mooring platforms (McLane Prawler and Delmar Wirewalker). The project aimed to determine the operational needs of these profiling systems and assess increases in sampling efficiencies and spatial resolution of data through the water column. During the assessment phase, the two profiling mooring systems were co-located in a range of ocean environments to ensure reliability and longevity over long deployment periods. The first deployment of the two systems was completed in March 2020, just south of Myrmidon Reef in Queensland by staff from AIMS and CSIRO, to test deployment in a tropical environment. The second deployment took place in inner Storm Bay, Tasmania; a temperate location, with this site similar to the conditions at the IMOS National Reference Stations at Maria Island, Port Hacking and Kangaroo Island. Subsequent deployments took place in outer Storm Bay in 500m to test the deeper profiling capabilities of both systems; and returned to Myrmidon Reef, Queensland, for final testing after improvements to system and mooring configurations. These moorings measure ocean temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll fluorescence, turbidity, photosynthesis available radiation, using instruments fixed along the mooring, and a profiler which moves along the mooring wire. {"type": "Point", "coordinates": [147.2, -18.33]} 147.2 147.2 -18.33 -18.33 Buoys | Moored Buoys CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers) Countries | Australia Fluorometers Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean Marine Features (Australia) | Great Barrier Reef, QLD Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nutrients Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen Oceans | Ocean Optics | Fluorescence Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity Regional Seas | Coral Sea Regional Seas | Tasman Sea States, Territories (Australia) | Queensland States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania Profiling Moorings Evaluation page on IMOS website documentDigital HTML NetCDF files via THREDDS catalog documentDigital HTML Website of the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN) documentDigital HTML Unnamed resource documentDigital License Graphic PNG Unnamed resource documentDigital HTML