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Role of zooxanthellae in the thermal tolerance of corals, Great Barrier Reef
The acclimatization potential of Acropora millepora was investigated through transplantation and experimental manipulation. Twenty-two colonies were sourced from each of a cool... -
Tide gauge deployments, Harrington Reef, Great Barrier Reef (1985-1988)
2 deployments of tide gauges (Aanderaa WLR) were made at Harrington Reef (-10.817, 142.72) and 3 deployments were made at a replacement mooring approximately 2km south. This... -
Co-dynamics of Symbiodiniaceae and bacterial populations during the first...
Fourteen colonies of A. tenuis were collected from Geoffrey Bay, Magnetic Island and transported to the National Sea Simulator Facility (SeaSim) at the Australian Institute of... -
Carbon turnover and accumulation by coral reefs
High-precision measurements of changes in oxygen and various parameters of the CO2 system in sea water were used to monitor community metabolism in four Pacific coral reef... -
Perturbation of persistent foraminiferal assemblages by elevated land runoff...
A total of 11 sediment cores were collected from inshore fringing reefs adjacent to 7 islands in the Whitsunday Islands Group, Queensland. The cores were collected from three... -
Larval settlement behaviour of Coscinoderma sponges from the Torres Strait,...
This experimental study of larval settlement behaviour of Coscinoderma mathewsi, undertaken in December 2009, explored some specific aspects of recruitment behaviour raised from... -
Patterns in the distribution of holothurians across the central Great Barrier Reef
Surveys of the distribution of holothurians were conducted on 2 inshore reefs (Pandora and Phillips), 2 mid-shelf reefs (John Brewer and Rib) and two outer-shelf reefs (Myrmidon... -
Temperature Data for the GBR Region (NESP TWQ 4.2, AIMS)
This collection of temperature logger data has been produced to cover the most recent back to back bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef to be used as a reference data set... -
Gene flow of Holothuria scabra populations along the north-east coast of...
17 to 141 individuals were collected from 8 populations of the fished holothurian species Holothuria scabra (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea), from north-east Australia, the Torres... -
Weather records in corals from northern Australia (CCEP Project)
A large scale coral core drilling program was undertaken between March 1986 and April 1987. Coral cores were collected from Porites spp. bommies on reefs between Darwin and... -
Facility for the Automated Intelligent Monitoring of Marine Systems - FAIMMS
Sensor networks are a leading edge technology that can be used to provide spatially dense bio-physical measurements in real-time. In the marine environment they have particular... -
Estimating above-ground biomass in six mangrove tree species, north eastern...
Mangrove trees of six species were sampled in order to derive allometric relationships for estimating leaf biomass, branch biomass, stem biomass and total above-ground biomass... -
South Pacific Epidemiological and Health Information Services (SPEHIS) fish...
This database combined data from a number of public sources to assist in analysing for climate trends in ciguatera within the South Pacific. Monthly fish poisoning rates for... -
Australian Maritime Boundaries: Geoscience Australia
Australia's Maritime Boundaries (AMB) is now on-line via AMSIS. As an island continent, Australia has sovereign rights over a vast area of ocean, along with the fishery,... -
Zooplankton community composition of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory
The composition of the zooplankton community in a macrotidal (8m), tropical estuarine system (Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia) was studied over a 2 year period.In... -
Water and fine sediment dynamics in King Sound, Western Australia
Two field trips were made to King Sound, in the dry seasons of 1997 and 1998. King Sound drains an area of 121,315 km², most of which is in the Fitzroy River catchment. In 1997,... -
Towed Video deployments in Oceanic Shoals Commonwealth Marine Reserve (Timor...
Towed video surveys were carried out in targeted shallow seabed environments within the proposed Oceanic Shoals Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR) in the Timor Sea. The survey... -
Heron Island Sensor Float 4
A round 1.4m yellow buoy has been deployed in the Heron Island lagoon as part of the sensor network infrastructure at Heron Island in the southern Great Barrier Reef off... -
Surveys of Octocoral communities, benthic cover and environmental factors on...
All surveys were carried out by the principal researcher using Rapid Ecological Assessment. The dataset comprises 33 entries from 7 reef locations.On each reef 1-3 sites were... -
The concentration of metals in the northern Adriatic anchovy (Engraulis...
Northern Adriatic anchovies (Engraulis encrasicholus) and the sardine (Sardina pilchardus), were sampled from catches landed at the Mirna Cannery in Rovinj, Yugoslavia (now...