Data Trawler - Survey Details

SS 05/2007     - is a Marine National Facility voyage

Period:- 2007-06-07 to 2007-07-07

From: Dampier To: Darwin

Region: Australia's

Ship :- Southern Surveyor [details]

Project:- Characterising ecosystems of the deep continental shelf and slope seabed using optimised mapping techniques (Survey Only) [details]

Description:- Exploring and characterising marine ecosystems of the NW Region
Characterising the benthic biogeography of the deep continental shelf and slope in Australia's "North West Region", with emphasis on the processess maintaining (and threatening) biodiversity, and support for implementing the NW Regional Marine Plan and Commonwealth Marine Protected Areas.
Voyage split into three legs - Dampier to Broome, Broome to Brrome, Broome to Darwin.
Voyage Objectives
At depths of 100m, 200m, 400m, 700m and 1000m on transects in focus areas, and at 'standard' 100m and 400m sites spaced at approx 60n.m intervals, sampling will:

Metadata:-

Deep Sea Octocorals, First Compilation of Regional and Distributional Records of Deep Water Corals [details]

Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 05/2007 Multibeam Echosounder Data [details]

Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 05/2007 Single beam acoustic data [details]

Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 05/2007 Underway Data [details]

Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 05/2007 - Voyage of discovery - benthic biodiversity of the deep continental shelf and slope in Australia's "North West Region" [details]

Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 05/2007 - Voyage of discovery - Sediments of the deep continental shelf and slope in Australia's "North West Region" [details]

Southern Surveyor Voyage SS05/2007 - Voyage of discovery - Video and seabed images of of the deep continental shelf and slope in Australia's "North West Region" [details]

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Reports

• View the Survey plan - includes objectives, investigator details, proposed data collection, voyage track and equipment to be used.

• View the Survey Summary report - includes preliminary results, voyage narrative, types of data collected with C77/ROSCOP codes.

• View the Science Highlights report - a smaller report of the key outputs.

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Publications from data derived from this voyage

• Gary C. B. Poore, Lynda Avery, Magda Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, Joanna Browne, Niel L. Bruce, Sarah Gerken, Chris Glasby, Elizabeth Greaves, Anna W. McCallum, David Staples, Anna Syme, Joanne Taylor, Genefor Walker-Smith, Mark Warne, Charlotte Watson, Alan Williams, Robin S. Wilson, Skipton Woolley (2014) Invertebrate diversity of the unexplored marine western margin of Australia: taxonomy and implications for global biodiversity. Marine Biodiversity, 1-16. [view via DOI]

Data publishing:- This is a list of online datasets. use the Get data link on the right to extract data using the O&A Data Trawler.

Deployments by start time:- Click on column header to sort