Australian Gould's Petrel Data Inventory for Gippsland Offshore Energy Area

Fifteen priority species, including 12 birds and 3 cetaceans, were identified for this inventory by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and NOPSEMA. This record specifically describes the collated data inventory for the Australian Gould's Petrel in relation to the Gippsland Offshore Renewable Energy declaration area. The project was conducted by the Australian Ocean Data Network to evaluate data utility for environmental assessments.

Use Cases

• Assess potential impacts of offshore renewable energy development on endangered seabirds based on the collated occurrence data.
• Identify data gaps for priority species in the Bass Strait region based on the project's evaluation of dataset accessibility.
• Support regulatory processes for the Gippsland declaration area based on the inventory of publicly-available species information.

Strengths

• Focuses on 15 priority species identified by Australian government authorities DCCEEW and NOPSEMA.
• Project methodology involved evaluating dataset utility for specific regulatory assessments.
• Data inventory is publicly available via a provided DOI (10.25959/GB51-RW44).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Rapid exploration involving identification and evaluation of publicly-available datasets and information sources.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-17 00:28:42.963219; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Gippsland Offshore Renewable Energy declaration area and adjacent areas in Bass Strait, Australia.