IN2025_V06: Hydrology from the Coral Sea Marine Park Voyage

Hydrology data from the RV Investigator's 2025 voyage provides water chemistry profiles from the Coral Sea Marine Park. Samples were collected via Niskin bottles at various depths during CTD deployments, analyzing salinity, dissolved oxygen, and multiple nutrients. This quality-controlled dataset is archived by CSIRO's National Collections and Marine Infrastructure.

Use Cases

• Mapping nutrient gradients (phosphate, silicate, nitrate) to assess marine productivity.
• Analyzing dissolved oxygen profiles to study ocean deoxygenation trends.
• Correlating salinity and temperature data from CTD casts with biological sampling.
• Modeling biogeochemical processes in the deep-sea environment of a marine park.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly described as processed and quality-controlled.
• Covers a specific, recent research voyage from October 10 to November 14, 2025.
• Archived by a recognized national research institution (CSIRO NCMI IDC).

Limitations

• Key metadata such as row count, file size, specific columns, and license are unknown across all sources.
• Relies on external voyage and data processing reports for full documentation.
• Data format availability is limited to HTML and PNG, suggesting a lack of direct, structured data files.

Provenance

Source

Marine National Facility (MNF) RV Investigator voyage IN2025_V06, archived at CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC).

Collection Method

Samples collected from Niskin bottles at various depths during Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) deployments.

Time Range

Voyage took place between October 10, 2025 and November 14, 2025 (AEST).

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-04-28 according to the most recent platform entry.

Geography

Coral Sea Marine Park, departing from and returning to Brisbane, Australia.