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  Comparative assessment of seafloor sampling platforms. 

  Przeslawski, Rachel; Foster, Scott; Monk, Jacquomo; Langlois, Tim; Lucieer, Vanessa; Stuart-Smith, Rick (Geoscience Australia, Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2018)

  The Australian Marine Parks are the largest network of marine protected areas in the world, and their establishment means that Australia is now tasked with managing an area almost 3.3 million km2. In addition, Australia ...
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  Data Discoverability and Accessibility Report from July 2019 Workshop on Marine Imagery. 

  Przeslawski, Rachel; Barrett, Neville; Bax, Narissa; Carroll, Andrew; Foster, Scott; Heupel, Michelle; Jansen, Jan; Langlois, Tim; Moltmann, Tim; Pocklington, Jacqui; Stuart-Smith, Rick; Wyatt, Mat (Geoscience Australia, Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2019)

  There are increasing incentives for marine researchers to share their data, but the will of the marine community to share data has often not yet caught up with our capabilities. Marine imagery and associated annotation, ...
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  Data discoverability and accessibility Report from workshops on marine imagery and biological specimen data, September 2018. 

  Przeslawski, Rachel; Falkner, Inke; Foster, Scott; Mancini, Seb; Bainbridge, Scott; Bax, Narissa; Carroll, Andrew; Flukes, Emma; Gonzalez-Riviero, Manuel; Langlois, Tim; Moore, Kirrily; Rehbein, Mark; Tattersall, Katherine; Watts, Dave; Williams, Alan; Wyatt, Mathew (Geoscience Australia, Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra Australia, 2019)

  As the rate of marine data acquisition increases, so too does the need for that data to abide by the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) principles. From the nation’s perspective, a coherent and assessable ...
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  Scoping of new field manuals for marine sampling in Australian waters. Report to the National Environmental Science Programme. 

  Przeslawski, Rachel; Bodrossy, Lev; Carroll, Andrew; Cheal, Alistair; Depczynski, Martial; Foster, Scott; Hardesty, Britta Denise; Hedge, Paul; Langlois, Tim; Lara-Lopez, Ana; Lepastrier, Aero; Mancini, Sebastien; Miller, Karen; Monk, Jacquomo; Navarro, Matt; Nichol, Scott; Sagar, Stephen; Stuart-Smith, Rick; van de Kamp, Jodie; Williams, Joel (Geoscience Australia, Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2019)

  A suite of field manuals was released by the NESP Marine Hub in early 2018 to facilitate a national monitoring framework, with a focus on seven marine sampling platforms: multibeam sonar, autonomous underwater vehicles, ...
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  Australian Sub-bottom Profiling Guidelines: AusSeabed Community Guidelines. 

  McNeil, Mardi; Bergersen, Douglas; Johnstone, Elizabeth; Vandenbossche, Philippe; Yule, Christopher (Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia, 2023)

  The Australian Sub-bottom Profiling (SBP) Guidelines are intended to establish a standardised approach to the acquisition of SBP data in an Australian context. Developed by the AusSeabed community, the aim is to provide ...
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  A two-part seabed geomorphology classification scheme, Version 2.0. Part 1: Morphology features glossary. 

  Dove, Dayton; Nanson, Rachel; Bjarnadóttir, Lilja R.; Guinan, Janine; Gafeira, Joana; Post, Alix; Dolan, Margaret F.J.; Stewart, Heather; Arosio, Riccardo; Scott, Gill (Zenodo, 2020)

  This report updates the ‘Two-part Seabed Geomorphology classification scheme’ of Dove et al. (2016) and presents a new glossary (Part 1) of Seabed Morphology features. This Morphology glossary is intended to provide marine ...
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  A two-part seabed geomorphology classification scheme. Part 2: Geomorphology classification framework and glossary - Version 1.0. 

  Nanson, Rachel; Arosio, Riccardo; Gafeira, Joana; McNeil, Mardi; Dove, Dayton; Bjarnadóttir, Lilja; Dolan, Margaret; Guinan, Janine; Post, Alix; Webb, John; Nichol, Scott (Zenodo, 2023)

  Maps of seabed geomorphology provide foundational information for a broad range of marine applications. These maps rely on bathymetry data from which geomorphic units can be identified, supported by knowledge of the ...
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  Developing an ocean best practice: a case study of marine sampling practices from Australia. 

  Przeslawski, Rachel; Barrett, Neville; Carroll, Andrew; Foster, Scott; Gibbons, Brooke; Jordan, Alan; Monk, Jacquomo; Langlois, Tim; Lara-Lopez, Ana; Pearlman, Jay; Picard, Kim; Pini-Fitzsimmons, Joni; van Ruth, Paul; Williams, Joel (2023)

  Since 2012, there has been a surge in the numbers of marine science publications that use the term ‘best practice’, yet the term is not often defined, nor is the process behind the best practice development described. ...
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  AusSeabed Community Guidelines: Satellite Derived Bathymetry 

  Ellis, Matthew; Formanek, Rebecca; Townsend, Nigel (AusSeabed, Canberra, Australia, 2022)

  The Satellite Derived Bathymetry (SDB) guidelines are intended to provide users of SDB sourced from the AusSeabed portal with the required knowledge to appropriately use SDB datasets. This is not a guide on how to produce ...
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  Our Knowledge Our Way in caring for Country: Indigenous-led approaches to strengthening and sharing our knowledge for land and sea management. Best Practice Guidelines from Australian Experiences. 

  Woodward, Emma; Hill, Rosemary; Harkness, Pia; Archer, Ricky (NAILSMA and CSIRO, Cairns, Australia, 2020)

  These Guidelines are a key output from a project of the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program (NESP), Northern Australia Environmental Resources (NAER) Hub, titled Knowledge Brokering for Indigenous ...
• Developing Ocean Best Practices in Australia. [Video] 

  Przeslawski, Rachel; Foster, Scott; Langlois, Tim; Bax, Nic (NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2021)

  Ocean best practices are increasingly recognised as a way to facilitate the collection and use of quality, comparable and collatable data. International efforts have focussed on criteria of what should be elevated to a ...
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  Australian Multibeam Guidelines [Version 2] 

  Picard, K.; Leplastrier, A.; Austine, K.; Bergensen, N.; Cullen, R.; Dando, N.; Donohue, D.; Edwards, S.; Ingleton, T.; Jordan, A.; Lucieer, V.; Parnum, I.; Siwabessy, J.; Spinoccia, M.; Talbot-Smith, R.; Waterson, C.; Barrett, N.; Beaman, R.; Bergersen, D.; Boyd, M.; Brace, B.; Brooke, B.; Cantrill, O.; Case, M.; Dunne, S.; Felllows, M.; Harris, U.; Ierodicaonou, D.; Johnstone, E.; Kennedy, P.; Lewis, A.; Lytton, S.; Mackay, K.; McLennan, S.; Mitchell, C.; Nichol, S.; Post, A.; Price, A.; Przeslawski, R.; Pugsley, L.; Quadros, N.; Smith, J.; Stewart, W.; Sullivan, J.; Tran, M.; Whiteway, T.

  The primary objective of this guideline is thus to establish common approaches of acquisition and processing that will result in greater applicability and interoperability of swath acoustic mapping data. These approaches ...
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  Impact and Outcomes of Marine Sampling Best Practices. 

  Przeslawski, Rachel; Foster, Scott D; Langlois, Tim; Gibbons, Brooke; Monk, Jacquomo (NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2021)

  In 2017, the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub committed to developing field manuals for selected marine sampling platforms to ensure that data collected at different times and places across Australia are directly comparable. ...
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  Field Manuals for Marine Sampling in Australian Waters, Version 2. 

  Przeslawski, Rachel; Foster, Scott (NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2020)

  The Marine Biodiversity Hub has developed a suite of field manuals to ensure that data collected by marine sampling platforms at different times and places across Australia are directly comparable. The Marine Sampling ...
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  Comparison of sampling methods to assess benthic marine biodiversity. Are spatial and ecological relationships consistent among sampling gear? 

  Flannery, Emma; Przeslawski, Rachel (Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia, 2015)

  Marine benthic biodiversity can be measured using a range of sampling methods, including benthic sleds or trawls, grabs, and imaging systems, each of which targets a particular community or habitat. Due to the high cost ...
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  A Suite of Field Manuals for Marine Sampling to Monitor Australian Waters. 

  Przeslawski, Rachel; Foster, Scott; Monk, Jacquomo; Barrett, Neville; Bouchet, Phil; Carroll, Andrew; Langlois, Tim; Lucieer, Vanessa; Williams, Joel; Bax, Nicholas (2019)

  One of the main challenges in assessing marine biodiversity is the lack of consistent approaches to monitor it. This threatens to undermine ocean best practice in marine monitoring, as it impedes a reduction in the bias ...
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  Marine Sampling Field Manual for Grabs and Box Corers [Version 1]. [SUPERSEDED by DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-918] 

  Przeslawski, R.; Berents, P.; Clark, M.; Edgar, G.; Frid, C.; Hughes, L.; Ingleton, T.; Kennedy, D.; Nichol, S.; Smith, J. (NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2018)

  This Grab and Box Corer Field Manual includes gear designed to sample unconsolidated sediment and organisms on the seafloor. General steps are outlined in Figure 9.1 and described in detail in the sections ...
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  Marine Sampling Field Manual for Benthic Sleds and Bottom Trawls [Version 1]. [SUPERSEDED by DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-918] 

  Przeslawski, R.; Althaus, F.; Clark, M.; Colquhoun, J.; Gledhill, D.; Flukes, E.; Foster, S.; O’Hara, T.; Proctor, R. (NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2018)

  This Sled and Trawl Field Manual includes gear designed to sample organisms on the seafloor, excluding microbes and meiofauna (see chapters in Eleftheriou and Mcintyre 2005, Danovaro 2010 for such methods). ...
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  Marine Sampling Field Manual for Towed Underwater Camera Systems [Version 1]. [SUPERSEDED by DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-918] 

  Carroll, A.; Althaus, F.; Beaman, R.; Friedman, A.; lerodiaconou, D.; Ingleton, T.; Jordan, A.; Linklater, M.; Monk, J.; Post, A.; Przeslawski, R.; Smith, J.; Stowar, M.; Tran, M.; Tyndall, A. (NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2018)

  As still and video cameras can be mounted to tow bodies in a variety of ways (Figure 7.2, Table 7.1), this field manual does not mandate specific gear types. Rather, it provides recommendations for ...
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  Marine Sampling Field Manual for Pelagic Stereo BRUVS (Baited Remote Underwater Videos) [Version 1]. [SUPERSEDED by DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-918] 

  Bouchet, P.; Meeuwig, J.; Huveneers, C.; Langlois, T.; Letessier, T.; Lowry, M.; Rees, M.; Santana-Garcon, J.; Scott, M.; Taylor, M.; Thompson, C.; Vigliola, L.; Whitmarsh, S. (NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2018)

  This manual relates to gear designed to acquire digital video imagery of macro-organisms living in the ocean’s water column, from small zooplankton (Letessier et al. 2013a) to marine mega-vertebrates (Letessier ...

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