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Climate change and urchin fertilisation and the effect on the growth rate of...
The effect of pH, temperature and sperm concentration on the fertilisation of Sterechinus neumayeri was investigated. Adult Sterechinus neumayeri were collected from Ellis Fjord... -
Human Impacts group Benthic Biodiversity Database
Access database containing biological and environmental data collected by the Australian Antarctic Division, Human Impacts Benthic Biodiversity group. -
The Zooplankton Ecology of Ellis Fjord
From the abstract of one of the papers: Three new zooplankton nets have been designed to enable improved collection of zooplankters from ice-covered waters. These nets also... -
SRE4 Sediment Chemistry
Sediment Recruitment Experiment 4 (SRE4) was a large, long term (5 year) field experiment run at Casey Station (from 2001 to 2006) testing the effects of 4 different... -
Assessing the impact of contaminated sediments on hard-substrate Antarctic...
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2691 See the link below for public details on this project. Contaminants may persist in marine sediments and be re-suspended during... -
Infaunal marine invertebrate fauna inside and outside of bacterial mats,...
Infaunal marine invertebrates were collected from inside and outside of patches of white bacterial mats from several sites in the Windmill Islands, Antarctica, around Casey... -
Photoquadrat survey of hard substratum assemblages around Casey Station:...
A survey of the epibenthic fauna of hard-substrata was made around Casey Station, using a camera mounted on a frame to take photoquadrats. A nested sampling design was used with... -
Light-driven tipping points in polar ecosystems - Casey Station, Antarctica
Some ecosystems can undergo abrupt transformation in response to relatively small environmental change. Identifying imminent "tipping points" is crucial for biodiversity... -
Deep Ocean Camera Observations, Dalton Polynya and Mertz Glacier region, V2 2014/15
The RSV Aurora Australis V2 – Casey Resupply and Marine Science Voyage took place from 5 December 2014 to 25 January 2015. The voyage code is v2_201415020. The principal... -
Seafloor image annotations from the Sabrina upper slope, East Antarctica
Four camera tow transects were completed on the upper slope during survey IN2017_V01 using the Marine National Facility’s Deep Tow Camera. This system collected oblique facing... -
SRE4 (Sediment Recruitment Experiment 4) Sediment grain size analysis, Casey...
Sediment Recruitment Experiment 4 (SRE4) was a large, long term (5 year) field experiment run at Casey Station (from 2001 to 2006) testing the effects of 4 different... -
Diatom and associated data for examining the effects of heavy metal and...
Full title: Diatom and associated data for a manipulative field experiment examining the effects of heavy metal and petroleum hydrocarbon contamination on benthic diatom... -
SRE4 Metals in treatment Oils
Sediment Recruitment Experiment 4 (SRE4) was a large, long term (5 year) field experiment run at Casey Station (from 2001 to 2006) testing the effects of 4 different... -
Environmental Impact Assessment of the Davis Sewage Outfall
Untreated, macerated wastewater effluent has been discharged to the sea at Davis Station since 2005, when the old wastewater treatment infrastructure was removed. This... -
Toxicity of dispersed and undispered Special Antarctic Blend diesel in...
This data set describes the toxicity of marine sediment spiked with undispersed diesel and diesel dispersed with Dasic Slickgone. The temperate heart urchin species... -
Soft sediment assemblages at Casey Station: Brown Bay Grid - samples taken...
A survey of macrobenthic assemblages in soft-sediments was done at Casey Station, East Antarctica. Samples were taken along four transects in Brown Bay, along a pollution... -
Event logs and station lists from all CEAMARC voyages by the Aurora...
Copies of the event logs/station lists taken from the Aurora Australis, Astrolabe and Umitaka Maru during their CEAMARC cruises (collaborative East Antarctic Marine Census). -
Diatom, and associated data from grid samples collected in Brown Bay
Sediment samples were collected from nine points along 3 parallel transects within the contaminated Brown Bay. The diatom spreadsheet (diatom_data) contains both initial diatom... -
Diatom data for transects at 4 locations in the Windmill Islands
Sediment samples were collected from four locations within the Windmill Islands (Cloyd Island, Odbert Island, Shannon Bay and Brown Bay). Within each location three parallel... -
A manipulative field experiment examining the effect of heavy metal and...
The effects of hyrdocarbon and heavy metal contamination of marine sediments on recruitment of soft-sediment assemblages were examined in a field experiment at Casey Station,...