Environmental Logger Data from Torres Strait Stations, 2018-2020

Torres Strait environmental data from instruments deployed at Masig Island, Bramble Cay, North Warrior Reefs, and Thursday Island between 2018 and 2020. The dataset includes temperature, weather, turbidity, and salinity measurements collected by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) to model Fly River discharge impacts. It also contains GeoTIFF images from drone flights over Bramble Cay in 2019 and 2020.

Use Cases

• Modeling sediment transport and water movement based on wind and atmospheric data from weather stations.
• Identifying periods of thermal anomalies potentially linked to coral bleaching events based on temperature logger data.
• Monitoring low-salinity and high-turbidity water encroachment in the northern Torres Strait based on turbidity and salinity logger data.
• Analyzing changes in coastal morphology and vegetation based on drone-acquired GeoTIFF images from Bramble Cay.

Strengths

• Multi-year time-series data collected from 2018 to 2020.
• Multi-instrument deployment across four distinct geographic sites in the Torres Strait.
• Includes drone-acquired GeoTIFF imagery from two specific flights in November 2019 and October 2020.

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 four specific monitoring sites.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network, Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)

Collection Method

Data from deployed instruments including Vaisala WTX-530 weather stations, Li-Cor LI-192 PAR sensors, Seabird SBE39 sensors, and self-contained temperature/turbidity/salinity loggers.

Time Range

2018-2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-10 22:02:41.743399; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Torres Strait, specifically Masig Island, Bramble Cay (Maizab Kaur), the North Warrior Reefs, and Thursday Island.