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 hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network and was last updated in June 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the transport and fate of nutrients and sediments based on the described estuarine processes.
• Assessing the impact of agricultural contaminants on near-shore reef ecosystems as mentioned in the description.
• Informing catchment management strategies for the Fitzroy River based on the project's understanding of contaminant fate.

Strengths

• Focuses on a major contributor of contaminants to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, the Fitzroy River.
• Part of a structured research project (Coastal CRC) with a defined aim to understand contaminant fate.
• Hosted by the authoritative Australian Ocean Data Network.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and data scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is provided in HTML and PDF formats, which may require extraction for analysis.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-16 23:32:34.439490; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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