Marine Pressures within Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone (NESP MaC 1.3)

Marine pressures operating within Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone (NESP MaC 1.3) is a dataset from the National Environmental Science Program. It collates and synthesizes pressures on marine environments using a common language framework to inform monitoring priorities for Australian Marine Parks. The data was published by the Australian Ocean Data Network and was last updated on 2026-04-18.

Use Cases

• Assess cumulative environmental risk based on synthesized pressure data for Australia's marine waters.
• Inform national monitoring priorities based on the common language framework for pressures.
• Support spatial analysis of human activities based on the spatially explicit pressure data.
• Design marine park management strategies based on identified pressure combinations.

Strengths

• Data covers all of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone and state/territory waters.
• Uses a nationally accepted common language framework for describing pressures.
• Last updated on 2026-04-18, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Collated and synthesized from various sources using the Monitoring Effectiveness framework's common language.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-18 18:10:26.991292; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone and state/territory waters.