Bynoe Harbour 2016 Sediment Oxygen Uptake and Carbon Dioxide Release Rates

O2 consumption and CO2 production rates measured from core incubation experiments on seabed sediments. The data were collected during a marine survey from 2-29 May 2016 in Bynoe Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia, by Geoscience Australia, the Australian Institute of Marine Science, and the Northern Territory Government. The survey was part of a four-year (2014-2018) program to create thematic habitat maps for marine resource management.

Use Cases

• Modeling benthic carbon fluxes based on sediment oxygen uptake and CO2 production rates.
• Assessing habitat health and biogeochemical function for marine resource management decisions.
• Correlating sediment chemistry with acoustic backscatter and grain size data collected during the same survey.

Strengths

• Data is associated with a detailed post-survey report (Siwabessy et al., 2016) providing methodological context.
• Collection involved multiple authoritative institutions: Geoscience Australia, AIMS, and the Northern Territory Government.
• Survey had specific, documented objectives for habitat mapping, providing a clear research context.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the single survey location and time period.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Northern Territory Government Department of Land Resource Management.

Collection Method

Core incubation experiments conducted on seabed sediments collected during the RV Solander survey SOL6432/GA4452.

Time Range

Data collected from 2-29 May 2016.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 06:30:04.000335; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Bynoe Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia.