Macquarie Harbour Dissolved Oxygen and Temperature Monitoring Data (2017-2018)

Australian Ocean Data Network provides dissolved oxygen and temperature data collected from Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania, between 2017 and 2018. The data was gathered using HOBO Dissolved Oxygen loggers deployed at two locations under FRDC project 2016-067. It documents environmental conditions relevant to finfish aquaculture and benthic ecosystem health.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between dissolved oxygen levels and benthic fauna decline based on the described environmental stress.
• Assessing the long-term impact of aquaculture waste on harbor water quality based on the described particulate waste assimilation.
• Monitoring seasonal or event-driven hypoxia in a coastal estuary based on the time-series data from two locations.
• Correlating temperature fluctuations with dissolved oxygen saturation levels in a specific harbor environment.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific two-year period (2017-2018) for temporal analysis.
• Loggers were deployed at two distinct locations within Macquarie Harbour, providing spatial context.
• Data collection is associated with a specific research project (FRDC 2016-067), suggesting a defined purpose.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• The dataset's last update is listed as 2026-07-22; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Collected using HOBO Dissolved Oxygen loggers (U26-001).

Time Range

2017-2018

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-22 03:05:22.533098

Geography

Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania, Australia