Voyage details and related metadata, reports, events and data.
IN2022_V09
- is a Marine National Facility voyage
Title: Valuing Australia’s new Gascoyne Marine Park.
Voyage details on MNF site: https://mnf.csiro.au/en/Voyages/IN2022_V09
Period: 2022-11-19 00:00 to 2022-12-19 07:00 UTC
Duration: 30.29 days
From: Fremantle To: Fremantle
Ship: Investigator (RV) [details]
Description: The Gascoyne region of Australia’s seafloor was identified for protection as an area of national significance and a new marine park (MP) was proclaimed in 2013 and the management plan came into force in 2018. The Gascoyne MP lies in an area with great but poorly known biological diversity and potential for economic development. The voyage will determine the diversity of fishes and of key habitat forming and mobile marine invertebrates across the range of depth regions and in each of the three zoning categories (IUCN II, IV, VI) in the MP. The data collected during the surveys will also provide descriptions of the physical and biological habitat types in the MP and will form the basis for future monitoring and reviews of marine park performance and zoning. The data obtained will likely refine the bioregionalization boundaries of the slope provinces and bathomes in the NW of Australia and resolve debate around the importance of the region from the point of view of the levels of endemicity of fishes and the voyage will also sample the very deep waters of the NW continental margin for the first time. A recent comparative study of the lower bathyal and abyssal depths on the eastern coastal of Australia and the Great Australian Bight found significant differences in assemblages between these locations. This study will enable a further comparison of these areas with the north-west of Australia at the same depths. In lay terms: This project will describe the habitats and quantify fish and seabed biodiversity of one of Australia’s newest marine parks which stretches from depths of less than 100 m to over 5000 m. The project is likely to discover new species of marine animals and ensure that conservation needs are more fully understood. This will identify and assist managers to maintain the park’s natural values into the future.
Leader: John Keesing
Projects:

Underway data from NRUD - see this voyage
Voyage extents: 32° 12.1' S to 20° 44.5' S 110° 16.1' E to 115° 45.9' 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) GBIF
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Cruise Summary Report at SeaDataNet:-
Participants - on ship:-
Name | Role | Organisation | Project |
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William White | Alternate Chief Scientist Fish (sort, identify, weigh, count, measure) | CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure | Valuing Australia’s new Gascoyne Marine Park |
Participants - shore based:-
Name | Role | Organisation | Project |
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Dahiana Arcila | PI - piggyback | University of Oklahoma (USA) | Triacanthodidae Tissue Samples |
Tom Trull | PI - piggyback | CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart | BGC Argo floats |
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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IN2022_V09 Voyage Plan
- includes objectives, investigator details, proposed data collection, voyage track and equipment to be used.
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IN2022_V09 Voyage Summary and Highlights
- includes preliminary results, voyage narrative, types of data collected with C77/ROSCOP codes.
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IN2022_V09 UWY Data Processing Report
- details of data processing steps, calibration information, instruments used and any issues with the data.
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IN2022_V09 ADCP 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.
Dataset
- Bessey, Cindy; Martini, Andrew; Currie, Alasdair; Ponsonby, Will; Tyndall, Aaron; Crossing, Ryan; Pogonoski, John; Mortimer, Nicolas; Keesing, John; Salazar, Vinicius; Moore, Glenn; & Dawkins, Kat (2024): Design and Validation of an Open-Close Device (OCD) for Integrated Environmental DNA Sampling. v1. CSIRO. Data Collection. 10.25919/7f8n-c016
- Keesing, John; Berry, Chris; Boyd, Matt; Navidad, Cisco; Gifford, Davina (2024): IN2022_V09 Gascoyne Marine Park Bathymetry 5m - 210m Multi-resolution AusSeabed products. v1. CSIRO. Data Collection. 10.25919/twn0-eh71
IPT Resource
- New species of Laetmonice (Aphroditidae, Annelida) from bathyal and abyssal depths around Australia (2015-2022) (Darwin Core Archive) External link to reference
- Specimens collected by Museums Victoria from the Gascoyne Marine Park on the RV Investigator voyage IN2022_V09, Australia (2022) (Darwin Core Archive) External link to reference
- Specimens collected by Western Australian Museum from the Indian Ocean on the RV Investigator voyages IN2021_V04, IN2022_V08, IN2022_V09 and RV Falkor voyage FK200308, Australia (2021-2022) (Darwin Core Archive) External link to reference
Journal Article
- Bessey, Cindy,Martini, Andrew,Currie, Alasdair,Ponsonby, Will,Tyndall, Aaron,Crossing, Ryan,Salazar, Vinícius Werneck,Dawkins, Kathryn L.,Pogonoski, John J.,Moore, Glenn,Mortimer, Nick,Keesing, John K. (2025) Design and Validation of an Open–Close Device for Integrated Environmental DNA Sampling Detects A Depth Gradient in Indian Ocean Deep- Sea Fish Assemblages. Ecology and Evolution, Volume15, Issue2.
Sampling Detects A Depth Gradient in Indian Ocean Deep‐Sea Fish Assemblages
. Ecology and Evolution 15 pp-. 10.1002/ece3.70902
- Evans, Aaron,Voss, Nancy,Braid, Heather,Kubodera, Tsunemi,Bolstad, Kathrin (2024) Diversity of the ‘eerie’ glass squid genus Steenstrup, 1861 (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida) in the Pacific Ocean. New Zealand Journal of Zoology pp1-36. 10.1080/03014223.2024.2416207
- Flaxman, Beth,Kupriyanova, Elena (2024) New species of Laetmonice (Aphroditidae, Annelida) from bathyal and abyssal depths around Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 76 pp195-210. 10.3853/j.2201-4349.76.2024.1900
- Mah C.L. (2024). New Goniasteridae and in situ observations significant to deep-sea coral predation. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 83: 1–35. 10.24199/j.mmv.2024.83.01
- Matsumoto, Tatsuya,Motomura, Hiroyuki (2024) Two new species of the scorpionfish genus Neomerinthe Fowler 1935 (Teleostei: Scorpaenidae) from northwestern Australia. Ichthyological Research pp-. 10.1007/s10228-024-00975-z
- O'Neill, H. L., White, W. T., Pogonoski, J. J., Alvarez, B., Gomez, O., & Keesing, J. K. (2023). Sharks checking in to the sponge hotel: First internal use of sponges of the genus Agelas and family Irciniidae by banded sand catsharks Atelomycterus fasciatus. Journal of Fish Biology, 1–6. 10.1111/jfb.15554
- Verhoeff TJ (2025). Flapjack octopods of Australia (Cephalopoda: Cirrata: Opisthoteuthidae), Part II northwestern Australia and adjacent waters. Australian Journal of Taxonomy 92: 1–28 10.54102/ajt.c46g9
- Verhoeff, Tristan Joseph (2025) Flapjack octopods of Australia (Cephalopoda: Cirrata: Opisthoteuthidae), Part II northwestern Australia and adjacent waters. Australian Journal of Taxonomy pp1-28. 10.54102/ajt.c46g9
- Verhoeff, Tristan Joseph,O'Shea, Steve (2025) A new southern hemisphere species of Cirroteuthis (Octopoda: Cirrata: Cirroteuthidae), and re-evaluation of the taxonomic status of Cirroteuthis hoylei Robson, 1932. Folia Malacologica 33 pp-. 10.12657/folmal.033.003
- Verhoeff, Tristan Joseph,O'Shea, Steve (2025) A new southern hemisphere species of Cirroteuthis (Octopoda: Cirrata: Cirroteuthidae), and re-evaluation of the taxonomic status of Cirroteuthis hoylei Robson, 1932. Folia Malacologica 33 pp-. 10.12657/folmal.033.003
- White, William T.,Mollen, Frederik H.,O’Neill, Helen L.,Yang, Lei,Naylor, Gavin J. P. (2023) Species in Disguise: A New Species of Hornshark from Northern Australia (Heterodontiformes: Heterodontidae). Diversity 15 pp849-. 10.3390/d15070849
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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.
Use the Get data link on the right to extract data using the NCMI Data Trawler.
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Marine biodiversity observations and/or samples |
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Gravity Measurements |
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Multibeam echosounder |
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pCO2 |
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External link - download datafile at IMOS Data fields and units document (.pdf) |
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Radon measurements | No data in database |
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Sub-bottom profiler |
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Singlebeam echosounder |
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Underway |
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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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Underway System [details] | Air Sampling Inlet Mode,Air Temperature Sensor - ROTRONIC T&RH HC2A-S3,Air Temperature Sensor - ROTRONIC T&RH HC2A-S3,Air Temperature Sensor - ROTRONIC T&RH HC2A-S3,Air Temperature Sensor - ROTRONIC T&RH HC2A-S3,Burket Flow meter,Burket Flow meter,CSIRO Hobart pCO2,CSIRO Hobart pCO2,CSIRO Hobart pCO2,CSIRO Hobart pCO2,CSIRO Hobart pCO2,CSIRO Hobart pCO2,CSIRO Hobart pCO2,CSIRO Hobart pCO2,CSIRO Hobart pCO2,CSIRO Hobart pCO2,CSIRO air sampling inlet,CSIRO air sampling inlet,Depth: TECHSAS-DERIVED. For more information contact the Data Acquisition and Processing group.,Fluorometer,Fluorometer Concentration,Gyrocompass,IMOS Port Pyranometer-SN 35123F3,IMOS Port Radiometer-SN 35111F3,IMOS Stbd Pyranometer-SN 35122F3,IMOS Stbd Radiometer-SN 35093F3,IMOS wind monitor,IMOS wind monitor,IMOS wind monitor,IMOS wind monitor,ISAR SST,Kobold MIK-C Flow meter,Kobold MIK-C Fluorometer Flow Meter,Kongsberg Maritime Skipper DL850 doppler log,Kongsberg Maritime Skipper DL850 doppler log,Kongsberg Maritime Skipper DL850 doppler log,Kongsberg Maritime Skipper DL850 doppler log,Kongsberg Maritime Skipper DL850 doppler log,Kongsberg Maritime Skipper DL850 doppler log,LI-COR LI-190 Quantum Sensor,LI-COR LI-190 Quantum Sensor,MAAP Status,Multiangle Absorption Photometer (MAAP),Multiangle Absorption Photometer (MAAP),Optode Dissolved Oxygen Concentration,Optode Dissolved Oxygen Saturation,Optode Water Temperature,Ozone Monitor RVT1,Ozone Monitor RVT1,Ozone Monitor RVT2,Ozone Monitor RVT2,Picarro Greenhouse Gas Spectrometer CO2,CH4,H2o,Picarro Greenhouse Gas Spectrometer CO2,CH4,H2o,Picarro Greenhouse Gas Spectrometer CO2,CH4,H2o,Port Rain Gauge,Port drop keel sensor,RM Young 05106 wind monitor,RM Young Wind Sensor Type 05106,RM Young Wind Sensor Type 05106,RM Young Wind Sensor Type 05106,RM Young Wind Sensor Type 05106,RM Young Wind Sensor Type 05106,RM Young Wind Sensor Type 05106,RM Young Wind Sensor Type 05106,RM Young Wind Sensor Type 05106,Remote Temperature (T) - SN 672,Seapath 330+,Seapath 330+,Seapath 330+,Seapath 330+,Starboard Rain Gauge,Starboard drop keel sensor,ThermoSalinoGraph (TSG)-SN 3465,ThermoSalinoGraph (TSG)-SN 3465,Vaisala Ship's Barometer PTB330 | 2022-11-18 21:16 | 2022-12-19 07:09 | -32.1647 | 115.7637 | -32.1642 | 115.7655 | |||||||
ADCP Data [details] | Teledyne RDI ADCP 150 kHz | 2549 | 2022-11-19 07:07 | 2022-12-19 03:12 | -31.9342 | 115.6002 | -31.9426 | 115.6281 | 686 |