IN2023_V05: Marine Ecosystem Voyage Data from Southeast Australia

End-of-voyage data archive from the RV Investigator's SEA-MES Voyage 1, which took place between June 28 and July 30, 2023. The archive includes raw data from over 40 instruments measuring ocean currents, water chemistry, plankton, atmospheric conditions, and wildlife observations. Data is curated by CSIRO's National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Information and Data Centre and archived at the CSIRO Data Access Portal.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean currents and water properties based on ADCP and CTD data.
• Analyzing plankton community composition and distribution based on Continuous Plankton Recorder and Multinet samples.
• Studying atmospheric-ocean gas exchange based on Greenhouse Gas Analyser and pCO2 measurements.
• Mapping seafloor topography based on Multibeam Echosounder and Sub-bottom Profiler data.
• Assessing marine biodiversity and species presence based on eDNA samples, trawl data, and wildlife observations.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 33-day voyage period from June 28 to July 30, 2023.
• Archive includes measurements from over 40 distinct oceanographic and atmospheric instruments.
• Voyage documentation is available electronically to Marine National Facility support.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC)

Collection Method

Instrument-based data collection during the RV Investigator voyage IN2023_V05.

Time Range

2023-06-28 to 2023-07-30 (AEST)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-16 09:47:59.440778; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southeast Australian marine ecosystem, voyage departed from and returned to Hobart.