Keppel Bay: Fate of Agricultural Contaminants in the Fitzroy Estuary

The Fitzroy River delivers the second largest quantity of catchment-derived nutrients and sediments to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon. This dataset from the Fitzroy Agricultural Contaminants Project, a Coastal CRC project, aims to understand the fate and impact of these materials within the Fitzroy Estuary-Keppel Bay system. It is provided by Geoscience Australia Data and was last updated on 2026-04-30.

Use Cases

• Modeling the transport and dispersion of agricultural contaminants based on the description of the Fitzroy Estuary-Keppel Bay system.
• Assessing the impact of nutrient loads on near-shore reef ecosystems based on the described research aims.
• Analyzing the fate of sediments from river discharge in a coastal lagoon environment based on the project's focus.

Strengths

• Data originates from a formal research project, the Fitzroy Agricultural Contaminants Project, a Coastal CRC project.
• Focuses on a specific, high-impact system: the Fitzroy River, which delivers the second largest quantity of materials to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon.
• Last updated on 2026-04-30 14:21:30.894706, indicating recent metadata maintenance.

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 study area of the Fitzroy Estuary-Keppel Bay.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Likely contains field measurements and/or modeling outputs from the Fitzroy Agricultural Contaminants Project.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 14:21:30.894706; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Fitzroy Estuary and Keppel Bay, adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.