Region: South Australia
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Estuarine and Coastal Moorings
Australia’s coastal zones face increasing pressures from climate change, sea-level rise, and coastal development, creating a need for coordinated monitoring of environmental conditions where land meets the sea. IMOS will establish a national, standardised network of estuarine and coastal moorings to provide near real-time observations of water quality. How it works Small to medium buoys are…
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Marine Microplastics
Marine microdebris is comprised of anthropogenic solid waste, specially microplastics, smaller than 5mm in length, indivertibly or intentionally disposed in marine environments. Their ubiquitous presence and levels are predicted to increase. The IMOS Marine Microplastics sub-Facility has been established to assess temporal and spatial variations of this contamination to better inform environmental management and policy.…
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Marine Microbiome Initiative
The Australian Microbiome Initiative is a national bio-resource, providing a central database of microbial diversity, developed in association with Bioplatforms Australia. Water samples from several depths are collected from IMOS National Reference Stations and the Southern Ocean Time Series mooring in the sub-Antarctic Zone, establishing a time-series of the marine microbial and planktonic communities in Australian coastal and…
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Surface Waves
Surface Waves provides oceanic wave data and wave products using satellite remote sensing. The key aims of Surface Waves is to calibrate and distribute surface ocean wave data from both current and next-generation satellite missions, supporting ongoing and emerging research and industry and service operations in Australia. The efficiency of and high-quality data produced by…
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Remote Sensing Collections
Remote Sensing Collections is a data management activity, developed to improve access to satellite remote sensed marine products and as such does not directly deploy instruments. The primary focus of Remote Sensing Collections is sea surface temperature and ocean colour products, but also assists the other Satellite Remote Sensing sub-Facilities, facilitating data availability and facilitate…
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Ground Stations
Ground Stations operate and service a reception antenna at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in Townsville, Queensland to support the collection and streaming of satellite remote sensing data to national and international data centres. This Ground Station extends data coverage into the equatorial part of the Western Pacific Ocean and complements other ground…