Lord Howe Island Shelf and Submarine Volcano Seafloor Survey, April 2008

April 2008 survey aboard the RV Southern Surveyor mapped the morphology and benthic environments of the shallow shelf surrounding Lord Howe Island and the deeper flanks of its submarine volcano. The data were collected by a collaboration between the University of Wollongong and Geoscience Australia under the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities' Marine Biodiversity Hub. The survey aimed to understand reef growth history at the southern limit of reef formation and the links between physical environment and biodiversity distribution.

Use Cases

• Mapping seabed habitats and infauna distribution based on the described survey of benthic environments.
• Analyzing the history of reef growth at the southern limit of coral formation based on the described drowned reef structure.
• Investigating erosional and depositional processes on a submarine volcano based on the described flank morphology analysis.
• Informing the revised Plan of Management for the Lord Howe Marine Parks based on the stated survey objectives.

Strengths

• Survey conducted in April 2008 aboard the RV Southern Surveyor, providing a specific temporal and operational context.
• Data collection was a collaboration between University of Wollongong and Geoscience Australia, indicating institutional oversight.
• Survey objectives explicitly target both shallow shelf morphology and deeper submarine volcano flanks, suggesting multi-scale analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified; last metadata update was 2026-06-22 23:59:25.058163.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Marine survey aboard RV Southern Surveyor using mapping and sampling techniques.

Time Range

April 2008

Freshness

Survey conducted in April 2008; metadata last updated 2026-06-22 23:59:25.058163.

Geography

Lord Howe Island shelf and submarine volcano, Australia