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IMOS - Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - SIRIUS, CAMPAIGN: GREAT BARRIER REEF, FEBRUARY 2011

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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) Sirius (IMOS Platform code: SIRIUS) was deployed in the Great Barrier Reef in February 2011. In the Great Barrier Reef the program is focused on seagrass beds in the middle of the GBR lagoon to understand how their abundance is affected by upwelling coming through the Magnetic and Palm Passages and on deepwater coral reefs on the outer GBR. Although there is extensive monitoring of shallow water reefs along the extent of the GBR, there has been relatively little opportunity to monitor deeper reefs. Understanding the nature of these deepwater reefs may provide important insights into the resilience of the GBR to stresses such as changing temperatures, ocean acidification, cyclones and nutrient influx from the coast. Surveys of the seagrass beds in the lagoon, which were designed to revisit sites surveyed using towed video ten years ago, and at Myrmidon Reef on the outer GBR were completed during July 2011 to establish benthic reference sites in this area.

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Title IMOS - Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - SIRIUS, CAMPAIGN: GREAT BARRIER REEF, FEBRUARY 2011
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/42f9482f-4fd9-4a77-881a-99559acd8e57
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
info@aodn.org.au
Reference Period 28/02/2011 - 01/03/2011
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "IMOS - Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - SIRIUS, CAMPAIGN: GREAT BARRIER REEF, FEBRUARY 2011". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/imos-autonomous-underwater-vehicles-sirius-campaign-great-barrier-reef-february-2011