Region: The Northern Territory
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Queensland and Northern Australia Moorings
Queensland and Northern Australia Moorings collect key oceanographic data from shelf arrays located in the northern tropics along the Great Barrier Reef and the north west region of Western Australia. The mooring array provides near real-time and delayed mode observations of physical oceanographic conditions of the regions and water quality measurements. Data Deployments The Great…
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Understanding of Marine Imagery
Understanding of Marine Imagery will establish a national repository for annotations of marine imagery, including those collected by IMOS Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. This repository will aid in the sharing of quantitative information and encourage consistencies in annotated labelling and providing tools for summarising and reporting on data relating to species and habitat distributions around Australia.…
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National Reef Monitoring Network
The National Reef Monitoring Network brings together shallow reef surveys conducted around Australia (and globally) into a centralised database. Data Contributors The IMOS National Reef Monitoring Network sub-Facility collates, cleans, stores and makes this data rapidly available from contributors including: Reef Life Survey, and the Australian Temperate Reef Collaboration (a partnership between the University of…
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National Mooring Network
The National Mooring Network is a collection of mooring arrays strategically positioned in Australian coastal waters. The National Mooring Network measures physical and biological parameters, and includes regional arrays of shelf moorings, acidification moorings, acoustic observatories and a network of National Reference Stations that include additional vessel-based sampling. Locations Currently eight National Reference Stations are…
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Event Based Sampling
The IMOS Event Based Sampling sub-Facility uses Ocean Gliders to monitor marine heatwaves in Australian coastal waters, with up to four deployments per year. Data is transmitted from Ocean Gliders in near real-time and available through the Australian Ocean Data Network. Why it’s important The ability of Ocean Gliders to provide high-resolution temporal and spatial…
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Ocean Gliders
Ocean gliders are autonomous underwater vehicles that propel themselves with changes in buoyancy, ascending and descending through the water column. The gliders are relatively cheap, reusable and can be remotely controlled, making them a relatively cost-effective method for collecting repeat subsurface ocean observations. Locations The use of these contemporary gliders provides a unique opportunity to…