NESP Community Practices

 

Recent Submissions

  • 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 ...

  • 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, ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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, ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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. ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Choosing between strategies for designing surveys: autonomous underwater vehicles. 

    Foster, Scott D.; Hosack, Geoffrey R.; Hill, Nicole A.; Barrett, Neville S.; Lucieer, Vanessa L. (2014)
    1. Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), which collect images of marine habitats, are now an established sampling tool. The use of AUVs is becoming more widespread as they offer a non-destructive method to survey substantial ...

  • CATAMI classification scheme for scoring marine biota and sub-strata in underwater imagery. Version 1.4. 

    CATAMI Technical Working Group (National Environmental Research Program, Marine Biodiversity Hub, Canberra, Australia, 2014)
    Transforming raw underwater imagery into quantitative information useful for science and policy decisions requires substantial manual effort by human experts. This process will soon become unsustainable as the volume of ...

  • A Standardised Vocabulary for Identifying Benthic Biota and Substrata from Underwater Imagery: The CATAMI Classification Scheme. 

    Althaus, Franziska; Hill, Nicole; Ferrari, Renata; Edwards, Luke; Przeslawski, Rachel; Schönberg, Christine H. L.; Stuart-Smith, Rick; Barrett, Neville; Edgar, Graham; Colquhoun, Jamie; Tran, Maggie; Jordan, Alan; Rees, Tony; Gowlett-Holmes, Karen (2015)
    Imagery collected by still and video cameras is an increasingly important tool for minimal impact, repeatable observations in the marine environment. Data generated from imagery includes identification, annotation and ...