Coral Sea Marine Park Seabed Flythrough Video from 2020 Surveys

A flythrough video highlights deep and mesophotic seabed environments within the Coral Sea Marine Park, offshore northeastern Australia. Bathymetry data and seafloor imagery were collected on RV Falkor during surveys FK200830 and FK200902 in August and October 2020. These surveys were led by Geoscience Australia and James Cook University with multiple collaborative research partners.

Use Cases

• Visualizing deep-sea benthic communities and habitat structures based on the described seafloor imagery.
• Studying mesophotic zone ecology, including algal meadows and coral species, based on the described habitats.
• Analyzing geomorphological features like seamounts and reef slopes based on the described bathymetry data.

Strengths

• Data collected during dedicated research cruises (FK200830 and FK200902) in 2020.
• Collaborative effort involving Geoscience Australia, James Cook University, and several other research institutions.
• Focus on specific, described features like Malay Reef, North Flinders Reef, and Cairns Seamount.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Data collected on RV Falkor, owned and operated by the Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI).

Time Range

August and October 2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 03:49:40.925553; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Coral Sea Marine Park, offshore northeastern Australia