Keppel Bay and Casuarina Creek Dry-Season Water Column and Sediment Surveys

A report on two dry-season surveys of Keppel Bay and Casuarina Creek in northern Australia. It focuses on biogeochemical properties of the water column and underlying sediments to understand sediment, nutrient, and agrochemical pathways in macrotidal estuaries. The data was published by the Australian Ocean Data Network and last updated in June 2026.

Use Cases

• Model sediment and nutrient accumulation rates based on core and bottle incubation data.
• Analyze links between primary production and sediment dynamics using water column and sediment property observations.
• Assess the role of Keppel Bay in redirecting catchment inputs using the study's zonation framework.
• Investigate the impact of land-use changes on coastal water quality using biogeochemical property data.

Strengths

• Report includes a detailed sampling strategy and methods section for reproducibility.
• Focuses on a specific, ecologically significant region (Keppel Bay and the Fitzroy Estuary) facing documented threats.

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 and temporal bias inherent to two dry-season surveys.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Field surveys involving water column sampling, sediment coring, and bottle incubations.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 05:28:41.528120; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Keppel Bay and Casuarina Creek, tropical northern Queensland, Australia.