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Coastal Shelfs 0-200m | |
| Name: | 0-40 m North-West shelf |
| Region: | North-west |
| Area: | not set |
| Data aggregated on 2026-04-23 15:09 | |
The following is the list of gear types used within this region. Click on 'gear type' for a detailed report of that gear.
| Gear Type | Code | Map colour | Layers used | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ocean based acoustic current meter | OB_ACM | ■ |
NOAA drifting buoys (map) CSIRO NCMI Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler data - link to layer metadata |
Records - 40 Deepest: db,Records - 552 Deepest: db |
| multibeam sonar | MBS | ■ | MNF singlebeam TOPAS sub-bottom profiler | Records - 30 Deepest: db |
| demersal remote underwater video | D_BRUV | ■ |
AIMS Glomar Shoal BRUVS 2013 AIMS Rankin Bank BRUVS 2013 AIMS - Ningaloo BRUVS WAMSI - link to layer metadata |
Records - 78 Deepest: db |
| Water quality and chemistry | WQ_C | ■ |
SRS Bio Optical DataBase - link to layer metadata MMP Locations Depth Weighted Avg CMAR Hydrology - link to layer metadata |
Records - 1 Deepest: db,Records - 111 Deepest: db,Records - 133 Deepest: db |
| CTD sensor | CTD | ■ |
Glider deployments - link to layer metadata CMAR CTD Data Overview (1982 - present) - link to layer metadata CMAR Towed CTD - link to layer metadata AIMS CTD cast summary RAN CTD data AIMS CTD data |
Records - 5 Deepest: db,Records - 78 Deepest: db,Records - 327 Deepest: db,Records - 779 Deepest: db |
| demersal trawl or sled | DT_S | ■ |
CMAR Catch Operations Data overview (1965 to current) - link to layer metadata |
Records - 459 Deepest: db |
| Glider | glider | ■ |
Glider deployments - link to layer metadata |
Records - 5 Deepest: db |
| remote or autonomous underwater video | R.A_UV | ■ |
AUV Deployments - link to layer metadata IMOS - Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Facility trajectory map - link to layer metadata |
Records - 26 Deepest: db |
| eXpendable BathyThermograph | XBT | ■ |
XBT Profile Data - link to layer metadata |
Records - 312 Deepest: db |
| Zooplankton samples | ZP | ■ |
The Australian Zooplankton Database (1938 onwards) - Data - link to layer metadata SOOP AusCPR zoop trajectory map - link to layer metadata |
Records - 38 Deepest: db,Records - 1 Deepest: db |
| sediment grab and core samples | SG | ■ |
AIMS - Sediment Mudcore sediment surface MNF Sediment Sampling sites - all voyages Seabed sediments sampling |
Records - 167 Deepest: db,Records - 1 Deepest: db,Records - 498 Deepest: db |
| diver visual | DV | ■ |
Reef Life Survey (RLS) Sites (http://reeflifesurvey.com) - link to layer metadata |
Records - 64 Deepest: db |
| Continuous Plankton Recorder | CPR | ■ |
CPR Plankton Colour Index Survey - link to layer metadata CPR Zooplankton Abundance Survey - link to layer metadata CPR Phytoplankton Abundance Survey - link to layer metadata |
Records - 4 Deepest: db |
| midwater acoustics | MW_A | ■ |
MNF singlebeam EK60 38-120 kHz (Southern Surveyor) MNF singlebeam EK60 12kHz (Southern Surveyor) |
Records - 94 Deepest: db |

Region extents: 112° 54.5' E 27° 42.6' S to 129° 01.8' E 12° 18.7' S Refresh map
Acknowledgements: Background map - Bright Earth e-Atlas Basemap v1.0 (AIMS, GBRMPA, JCU, DSITIA, GA, UCSD, NASA, OSM, ESRI) CC BY
Time series plot (1930 to present) - Y axis is per year
Region data
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| Year | CPR | CTD | DT_S | DV | D_BRUV | MBS | MW_A | OB_ACM | R.A_UV | SG | WQ_C | XBT | ZP | glider |
| 1961 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 1962 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 1966 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 1967 | 9 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 1968 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 1969 | 8 | |||||||||||||
| 1970 | 1 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 1971 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 1972 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 1973 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| 1976 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 1977 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 1978 | 4 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 1979 | 6 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 1980 | 14 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 1982 | 98 | 22 | ||||||||||||
| 1983 | 86 | 11 | ||||||||||||
| 1984 | 53 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1985 | 16 | |||||||||||||
| 1986 | 19 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 1987 | 9 | 20 | 11 | 9 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1988 | 19 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 1989 | 23 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||
| 1990 | 28 | 20 | ||||||||||||
| 1991 | 14 | 35 | ||||||||||||
| 1992 | 16 | |||||||||||||
| 1993 | 16 | 20 | 47 | |||||||||||
| 1994 | 10 | 143 | 10 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 1995 | 16 | 24 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 3 | ||||||||
| 1996 | 11 | 82 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| 1997 | 18 | 19 | 9 | 15 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1998 | 41 | 20 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 1999 | 14 | 69 | 8 | 9 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2000 | 25 | 92 | 1 | 24 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2001 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 2002 | 7 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2003 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2004 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 2005 | 36 | 16 | 13 | |||||||||||
| 2006 | 54 | 2 | 45 | |||||||||||
| 2007 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 41 | 16 | ||||||||
| 2008 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 66 | 39 | |||||||||
| 2009 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| 2010 | 3 | 11 | 42 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 1 | |||||||
| 2011 | 69 | 54 | 2 | 22 | 17 | 34 | ||||||||
| 2012 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 28 | 25 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| 2013 | 2 | 23 | 94 | 62 | 9 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| 2014 | 52 | 28 | 17 | |||||||||||
| 2015 | 13 |