Voyage details and related metadata, reports, events and data.
IN2015_E03
- is a Marine National Facility voyage
Title: Acoustics and pelagic ecosystems -testing equipment, developing procedures and sample collection
Period: 2015-04-16 06:56 to 2015-04-23 03:26 UTC
Duration: 6.85 days
From: Hobart To: Hobart
Region: Derwent Estuary, south east Tasmania, southern Tasmanian waters.
Ship: Investigator (RV) [details]
Description: MNF RV Investigator trial voyage IN2015_E03 Acoustics and pelagic ecosystems -testing equipment, developing procedures and sample collection. Voyage Objectives: This voyage will trial the vessels acoustic and pelagic ecosystem sampling capabilities. In particular the capability to deploy new acoustic and optical sampling technologies safely and to be able to carry out diel 24 hr sampling stations deploying a variety of sampling platforms. This will require the vessels operations to switch from gear types within a 12 hour cycle of CTD, net systems and lowered acoustic and optical technologies. To ensure a realistic simulation of procedures and processing of samples, work flows will be tested assuming collection of quality data sets. To safely work up towards full operational status, trials of equipment and procedures will be carried out in shallow water and once safe procedures and techniques have been established move to deeper water. Sampling to 2500 m will be attempted to trial net, CTD, acoustic, optical equipment capability. This will be targeted to a site of suspected elevated production. The vessels low noise capability will be tested and a reference noise signature obtained close to port to enable regular checks to be done in the future. The pelagic acoustic systems on the vessel will be calibrated and operated to ensure they can contribute to the IMOS bioacoustics facility. New acoustic systems on board will be operated and tested. Science Equipment and Operations: Develop and implement procedures and JHAs for scientific operations for the following: Calibration of Simrad EK60 and ME70 acoustic echosounders Noise ranging of the vessel Trials and deployments of the MIDOC, IKMT, EZ net systems Trials and deployment of DECAF and a profiling Acoustic Optical System Undertake two 24 hr stations to characterise the plankton to micronekton with acoustic, optical and biological sampling - includes CTD, Triaxis LOPC, drop net, side net, AOS, MIDOC, IKMT and EZ net systems. Investigate the deep water sampling capability to 2500 m for elevated production - CTD, EZ net, IKMT and Deep video. Trials of the Simrad ME70 and the multi-frequency classification of pelagic habitat using EK sounders and sub-bottom profiler Collect and process data and samples as for a research voyage to test laboratories, facilities and on board systems: Operation of wetlabs to process catches from plankton to micronekton with freeze and preservation capabilities (formaldehyde and alcohol) Photographic recordings including Kreisel tank. CTD biological sampling to estimate macro nutrients and bacteria and plankton communities
Leader: R. Kloser (CSIRO O&A)
Project: Investigator - general vessel operations, gear trials, etc. [details] Primary

Voyage extents: 43° 17.5' S to 42° 34.5' S 147° 20.3' E to 148° 59.2' E Get voyage track shapefile Get CSV
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Metadata from OBIS Australia datasets:- biological data is published via the OBIS-AU IPT server and delivered to one or more of OBIS, ALA and GBIF
Download from OBIS Australia IPT View at - Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) GBIF
Download from OBIS Australia IPT View at - Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) GBIF
Cruise Summary Report at SeaDataNet:-
Participants - on ship:-
Name | Role | Organisation | Project |
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Aaron Tyndall | Seagoing Instrumentation Team Support | Marine National Facility | Seagoing Instrumentation Team |
Adrian Flynn | CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research | ||
Alec Duncan | Acoustic Modelling | Curtin University | |
Andreas Marouchos | Engineer | CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart | |
Arti Verma | PhD student | Curtin University | |
Briony Hutton | Acoustics | Echoview Software | |
Caroline Sutton | Biological sampling | CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart | |
Cassie Schwanger | Hydrochemist | Marine National Facility | Hydrochemistry |
Dave Watts | Geophysical Survey and Mapping Support | Marine National Facility | Geophysical Survey and Mapping |
David Hughes | PhD student plankton | University of Technology, Sydney | |
David Hughes | PhD student | CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart | |
Don McKenzie | Operations Officer | Marine National Facility | Voyage Management on RV Investigator |
Gordon Keith | Software | CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart | |
Hayden Schilling | PhD student | University of New South Wales - Centre for Marine Science | |
Hugh Barker | Data Acquisition and Processing Computing Support | Marine National Facility | Data Acquisition and Processing |
Jacques Malan | Instrumentation | CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart | |
Jeff Cordell | Instrumentation | CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart | |
Karen Gowlett-Holmes | Biological sampling | CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart | |
Lisa Gershwin | CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart | ||
Mark Doubell | Plankton Ecologist | South Australian Research and Development Institute | |
Mark Lewis | Seagoing Instrumentation Team Support | Marine National Facility | Seagoing Instrumentation Team |
Matt Boyd | Geophysical Survey and Mapping Support | Marine National Facility | Geophysical Survey and Mapping |
Matt Sherlock | Instrumentation | CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart | |
Paul van Ruth | Production leader | South Australian Research and Development Institute | |
Peter Hughes | Hydrochemist | Marine National Facility | Hydrochemistry |
Rob McCauley | Curtin University | ||
Rudy Kloser | Equipment Champion | CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart | |
Ryan Downie | Biological sampling | CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart | |
Stephen Thomas | Seagoing Instrumentation Team Support | Marine National Facility | Seagoing Instrumentation Team |
Steve van Graas | Data Acquisition and Processing Computing Support | Marine National Facility | Data Acquisition and Processing |
Tara Martin | Geophysical Survey and Mapping Support | Marine National Facility | Geophysical Survey and Mapping |
Tegan Sime | Voyage Manager | Marine National Facility | Voyage Management on RV Investigator |
Tim Ryan | Shift Leader | CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart | |
Will Ponsonby | Seagoing Instrumentation Team Support | Marine National Facility | Seagoing Instrumentation Team |
This list includes those that may have only been on part of the voyage. See voyage reports on 'Reports and Maps' tab for details.
Marine National Facility Reports - plans, summaries and data processing
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IN2015_E03 Voyage Plan
- includes objectives, investigator details, proposed data collection, voyage track and equipment to be used.
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IN2015_E03 Hydrology data Processing Report
- details of data processing steps, calibration information, instruments used and any issues with the data.
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IN2015_E03 CTD Data Processing Report
- details of data processing steps, calibration information, instruments used and any issues with the data.
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Publications, reports and datasets from this voyage.
Conference abstract
- Caroline A. Sutton , Annabelle Erskine , David Webb and Rudy Kloser (2024) CSIRO’s Micronekton database including data from 1992 to 2021. ICES PICES 7th International Zooplankton Production Symposium March 17 22, 2024, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. S04 17387 Oral External link to reference
Dataset
- Kloser, Rudy; Ryan, Tim; Martin, Tara; Boyd, Matt; Watts, Dave; Navidad, Cisco; Taylor, Charlie; Plunkett, Tom (2022): IN2015_E03 South-Eastern Tasmania 10m - 210m Multi-resolution AusSeabed products. v1. CSIRO. Data Collection. 10.25919/8q3m-ns92
IPT Resource
- Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) (Darwin Core Archive) External link to reference
- CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC) (Darwin Core Archive) External link to reference
Journal Article
- Haris, Kunnath,Kloser, Rudy J,Ryan, Tim E,Malan, Jacques,Demer, David (2017) Deep-water calibration of echosounders used for biomass surveys and species identification. ICES Journal of Marine Science 75 pp1117-1130. 10.1093/icesjms/fsx206
Report
- Sutton, Caroline; Kloser, Rudy; Gershwin, Lisa. Micronekton in southern Australia and the Southern Ocean:
A collation of the biomass, abundance, diversity and distribution data from CSIRO’s historical mesopelagic depth stratified net samples.. Hobart: CSIRO; 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/102.100.100/365479?index=1
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Data publishing
This is a list of online datasets hosted by CSIRO. Other processed datasets hosted by collaborating organisations may be found on the 'Metadata' or "Reports, Publications and Maps' tab.
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Marine biodiversity observations and/or samples |
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CTD profile |
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Hydrology |
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Multibeam echosounder |
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Sea Surface Temperature |
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Deployment | Operation | Station | Cast | Gear | Project | Start and end times | Start Location | End Location | Depth range | Max Depth | Description | |||
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CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 1 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 20 - SN 0552,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 20 - SN 4722 | 2423 | 2015-04-17 21:08 | -42.6340 | 148.4016 | 90.7 | |||||||
CTD Cast [details] | 2 | Cast 18 | Altitude CTD 20-52306,CTD 20 - SN 0552,Conductivity CTD 20-SN 3168,Fluorometer-CTD20-Chelsea-06-5941-001,Licor - CTD 24 - SN 70111,Oxygen-CTD 20-SBE 43-SN1239,Pressure CTD 20,Temperature CTD 24 - SN 4522,Transmissometer - CTD 24 -CST-1421DR | 2423 | 2015-04-18 15:47 | 2015-04-18 16:34 | -42.6680 | 148.5009 | -42.6683 | 148.5009 | 998 | |||
CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 2 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 20 - SN 0552,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 20 - SN 4722 | 2423 | 2015-04-18 18:16 | -42.6683 | 148.5009 | 1001.2 | |||||||
CTD Cast [details] | 3 | Cast 27 | Altitude CTD 20-52306,CTD 20 - SN 0552,Conductivity CTD 20-SN 3168,Fluorometer-CTD20-Chelsea-06-5941-001,Licor - CTD 24 - SN 70111,Oxygen-CTD 20-SBE 43-SN1239,Pressure CTD 20,Temperature CTD 24 - SN 4522,Transmissometer - CTD 24 -CST-1421DR | 2423 | 2015-04-19 00:37 | 2015-04-19 01:26 | -42.7417 | 148.4830 | -42.7470 | 148.4879 | 997 | |||
CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 3 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 20 - SN 0552,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 20 - SN 4722 | 2423 | 2015-04-19 01:18 | -42.7471 | 148.4884 | 1000.9 | |||||||
CTD Cast [details] | 4 | Cast 44 | Altitude CTD 20-52306,CTD 20 - SN 0552,Conductivity CTD 20-SN 3168,Fluorometer-CTD20-Chelsea-06-5941-001,Licor - CTD 24 - SN 70111,Oxygen-CTD 20-SBE 43-SN1239,Pressure CTD 20,Temperature CTD 24 - SN 4522,Transmissometer - CTD 24 -CST-1421DR | 2423 | 2015-04-20 06:10 | 2015-04-20 07:55 | -42.7680 | 148.8521 | -42.7772 | 148.8638 | 2496 | |||
CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 4 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 20 - SN 0552,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 20 - SN 4722 | 2423 | 2015-04-20 07:47 | -42.7773 | 148.8639 | 2500.5 | |||||||
CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 5 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 20 - SN 0552,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 20 - SN 4722 | 2423 | 2015-04-20 19:08 | -43.0067 | 148.9169 | 1001.1 | |||||||
CTD Cast [details] | 5 | Cast 51 | Altitude CTD 20-52306,CTD 20 - SN 0552,Conductivity CTD 20-SN 3168,Fluorometer-CTD20-Chelsea-06-5941-001,Licor - CTD 24 - SN 70111,Oxygen-CTD 20-SBE 43-SN1239,Pressure CTD 20,Temperature CTD 24 - SN 4522,Transmissometer - CTD 24 -CST-1421DR | 2423 | 2015-04-20 19:10 | 2015-04-20 20:02 | -42.9922 | 148.9024 | -43.0056 | 148.9159 | 999 | |||
CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 6 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 20 - SN 0552,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 20 - SN 4722 | 2423 | 2015-04-21 16:08 | -42.6765 | 148.4992 | 401.7 | |||||||
CTD Cast [details] | 6 | Cast 59 | Altitude CTD 20-52306,CTD 20 - SN 0552,Conductivity CTD 20-SN 3168,Fluorometer-CTD20-Chelsea-06-5941-001,Licor - CTD 24 - SN 70111,Oxygen-CTD 20-SBE 43-SN1239,Pressure CTD 20,Temperature CTD 24 - SN 4522,Transmissometer - CTD 24 -CST-1421DR | 2423 | 2015-04-21 16:32 | 2015-04-21 17:09 | -42.6713 | 148.4985 | -42.6811 | 148.5015 | 400 | |||
CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 7 | CTD 20 - SN 0552,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 20 - SN 4722 | 2423 | 2015-04-21 17:08 | -42.6819 | 148.5019 | 206.6 | |||||||
CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 8 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 20 - SN 0552,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 20 - SN 4722 | 2423 | 2015-04-22 00:59 | -42.7104 | 148.5092 | 400.9 | |||||||
Multibeam echosounder [details] | 2423 | 2015-04-19 02:14 | -42.7514 | 148.4924 | 2123.5 |