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    • Delayed Mode QA/QC Best Practice Manual Version 3.1 

      Woo, L. Mun; Gourcuff, Claire (Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, Australia, 2023)
      This document is the IMOS Ocean Gliders (formerly known as Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)) Best Practice manual for delayed mode processed data. IMOS Ocean Gliders is a facility under Australia’s ...

    • Validation of Himawari-8 Sea Surface Temperature Retrievals Using Infrared SST Autonomous Radiometer Measurements 

      Zhang, Haifeng; Beggs, Helen; Griffin, Christopher; Devidas Govekar, Pallavi (2023)
      This study has evaluated five years (2016–2020) of Himawari-8 (H8) Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Level 2 Pre-processed (L2P) data produced by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (Bureau) against shipborne radiometer SST ...

    • GHRSST compliant AVHRR SST products over the Australian region 

      Griffin, Christopher; Beggs, Helen; Majewski, Leon (2017)
      The Australian Bureau of Meteorology produces a Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) compliant Sea Surface Temperature (SST) dataset over the Australian region, based on direct measurements from ...

    • In-Situ TAC Product: INSITU_GLO_PHY_TS_OA_MY_013_052. Issue 1.12. 

      Szekely, T. (CMEMS, Copernicus Marine Services, 2022)
      The document describes the Quality of the global gridded temperature and salinity fields released with the delayed mode temperature and salinity products and the associated error bars. The details of the product CORA: ...

    • Culturing and microscopy techniques for the analysis of phytoplankton diversity_2023. 

      Ocean Teacher Global Academy (OTGA) (2023)
      Phytoplankton comprises a range of very different organism from tiny and almost featureless picoplankton taxa to large diatoms and dinoflagellates nearing 1 mm in diameter. They essentially form the base of the food web ...

    • Ocean Data Analysis with R Programming for Early Career Ocean Professionals (ECOPs) (Asia). 

      Ocean Teacher Global Academy (OTGA) (2023)
      The course serves as an introduction to R programming language and software environment (RStudio) for data exploration, cleaning, organizing, analysis and visualization. Relevant oceanographic (physical, chemical and ...

    • Improving data reliability to support marine pollution assessment according to MSFD Descriptor 8 in the European Seas: the contribution of EMODnet Chemistry, 

      French, Megan Anne; Lipizer, Marina (2023)
      Introduction: According to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD, 2008/56/EC), member states of the European Union (EU) had to develop a common approach in environmental monitoring and assessment. Regarding marine ...

    • OpenFairViewer: a FAIR, ISO and OGC (meta)data compliant GIS data viewer for browsing, accessing and sharing geo-referenced data. 

      Blondel, Emmanuel (Zenodo, 2023)
      The OpenFairViewer is an HTML5/JS map viewer application developed to adopt the FAIR Data principles, while complying with ISO/OGC standards for geospatial data. It enables data findn, access, query and sharing of geospatial ...

    • Guidelines for Harmonizing Ocean Surface Microplastic Monitoring Methods. Version 1.2. 

      Michida, Yutaka; Chavanich, Suchana; Chiba, Sanae; Cordova, Muhammad Reza; Cozsar Cabanas, Andrés; Galgani, Francois; Hagmann, Pascal; Hinata, Hirofumi; Isobe, Atsuhiko; Kershaw, Peter; Kozlovskii, Nikolai; Li, Daoji; Lusher, Amy L.; Marti, Elisa; Mason, Sherri A.; Mu, Jingli; Saito, Hiroaki; Shim, Won Joon; Syakti, Agung Dhamar; Takada, Hideshige; Thompson, Richard; Tokai, Tadashi; Uchida, Keiichi; Vasilenko, Katerina; Wang, Juying (Ministry of the Environment, Japan, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo , Japan, 2023)
      This document presents the version (1.2) of “Guidelines for Harmonizing Ocean Surface Microplastic Monitoring Methods” (herein after referred to as the Guidelines). Its primary goal is to propose ways of harmonizing ...

    • 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, ...

    • Best practices for Core Argo floats: Getting started, physical handling, metadata, and data considerations. Version 1. [GOOS ENDORSED PRACTICE] 

      Morris, Tamaryn; Scanderbeg, Megan; West-Mack, Deborah; Gourcuff, Claire; Poffa, Noé; Udaya Bhaskar, TVS; Hanstein, Craig; Diggs, Steve; Talley, Lynne; Turpin, Victor; Liu, Zenghong; Owens, Breck (South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), Cape Town, South Africa, 2023)
      Argo floats have been deployed in the global ocean for over 20 years. The Core mission of the Argo program (Core Argo) has contributed well over 2 million profiles of salinity and temperature of the upper 2000 m for a ...

    • 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 ...

    • Quantifying Daytime Heating Biases in Marine Air Temperature Observations from Ships. 

      Cropper, Thomas E.; Berry, David I.; Cornes, Richard C.; Kent, Elizabeth C. (2023)
      Marine air temperatures recorded on ships during the daytime are known to be biased warm on average due to energy storage by the superstructure of the vessels. This makes unadjusted daytime observations unsuitable for many ...

    • Recommendations for the design of in situ sampling strategies to reconstruct fine-scale ocean currents in the context of SWOT satellite mission. 

      Barcelo-Llull, Bàrbara; Pascual, Ananda (2023)
      The new Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission aims to provide sea surface height (SSH) measurements in two dimensions along a wideswath altimeter track with an expected effective resolution down to ...

    • Ten simple rules for making a vocabulary FAIR 

      Cox, Simon J. D.; Gonzalez-Beltran, Alejandra N.; Magagna, Barbara; Marinescu, Maria- Cristina (2021)
      We present ten simple rules that support converting a legacy vocabulary—a list of terms available in a print-based glossary or in a table not accessible using web standards—into a FAIR vocabulary. Various pathways may ...

    • Biological sampling procedures for fish and crustaceans: Fin clip for genetics. Version 1.4 

      EAF-Nansen Programme of the FAO (Institute of Marine Research, Norway for the EAF-Nansen Programme of the FAO, Bergen, Norway, 2023)
      Onboard the DF Nansen, genetic samples are usually taken from species with a large geographical range, and that are commercially important in a larger region. The results are used to study population genetics and connectivity. ...

    • INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules: Technical Guidelines based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119. Version 1.3. 

      Drafting Team Metadata and European Commission Joint Research Centre (European Commission Joint Research Centre, Luxembourg, 2013)
      According to Article 5(1) of Directive 2007/2/EC, Member States shall ensure that metadata are created for the spatial data sets and services corresponding to the themes listed in Annexes I, II and III, and that those ...