A National Environmental Science Program inventory provides data and monitoring standards for offshore renewable energy development in Australia. The inventory covers five proposed and declared development areas: Hunter, Gippsland and Bass Strait, Illawarra, Southern Ocean, and south-west Western Australia. It was presented at the 2024 AMSA-NZMSS Conference Hobart Tas and is hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network.
Use Cases
- Assessing potential environmental impacts based on descriptions of installation, operation, and decommissioning phases.
- Designing monitoring programs based on best practice standards for environmental impact evaluation.
- Incorporating Indigenous cultural and environmental values into project planning based on links to development areas.
- Characterizing seabed habitats and oceanographic interactions based on geomorphology and habitat data.
- Modeling species interactions based on seasonality and distribution data for marine organisms.
Strengths
- Inventory covers five specific Australian offshore wind development areas.
- Collaborative project established under the National Environmental Science Program.
- Description details five key thematic areas of data and standards.
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 updated metadata indicates 2026-05-05.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Collaborative National Environmental Science Program project establishing an inventory.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-05 05:14:52.805960
- Geography
- Hunter, Gippsland and Bass Strait, Illawarra, Southern Ocean, and south-west Western Australia, Australia