Recent datasets

Toxicity of three insecticides and two fungicides to Acropora tenuis coral larvae (NESP TWQ 3.1.5, AIMS)

Published on
13 March 2020

This dataset shows the effects of three insecticides (diazinon, fipronil, imidacloprid) and two fungicides (chlorothalonil, propiconazole) on larval metamorphosis in the coral Acropora tenuis. These five pesticides have been detected in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon and/or catchments. Settlement assays were conducted in Nov-Dec 2016 and Nov 2017. The aim of this research is to add toxicity data for inclusion into water quality guidelines.

Effects of herbicide exposure on growth of the cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa (Cyanophyta) (NESP TWQ 3.1.5, AIMS and JCU)

Published on
12 March 2020

This dataset shows the effects of imazapic (detected in the Great Barrier Reef catchments) on the growth rate (from cell density data) on the cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa over a 72 hour exposure period during laboratory experiments conducted in 2019. The aims of this project were to develop and apply standard ecotoxicology protocols to determine the effects of Photosystem II (PSII) and alternative herbicides on the growth of the cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa.

Effects of herbicide exposure on growth and photosynthetic efficiency of the microalgae Rhodomonas salina (Cryptophyceae) (NESP TWQ 3.1.5, AIMS and JCU)

Published on
12 March 2020

This dataset shows the effects of herbicides (detected in the Great Barrier Reef catchments) on the growth rates (from cell density data) and photosynthesis (effective quantum yield) on the microalgae Rhodomonas salina during laboratory experiments conducted from 2018-2019. The aims of this project were to develop and apply standard ecotoxicology protocols to determine the effects of Photosystem II (PSII) and alternative herbicides on the growth and photosynthetic efficiency of the microalgae Rhodomonas salina.

Effects of herbicide exposure on growth and photosynthetic efficiency of the diatom Chaetoceros muelleri (Ochrophyta) (NESP TWQ 3.1.5, AIMS and JCU)

Published on
12 March 2020

This dataset shows the effects of herbicides (detected in the Great Barrier Reef catchments) on the growth rates (from cell density data) and photosynthesis (effective quantum yield) on the microalgae Chaetoceros muelleri during laboratory experiments conducted from 2018-2019. The aims of this project were to develop and apply standard ecotoxicology protocols to determine the effects of Photosystem II (PSII) and alternative herbicides on the growth and photosynthetic efficiency of the microalgae Chaetoceros muelleri.

Effects of herbicide exposure on growth and photosynthetic efficiency of the green algae Raphidocelis subcapitata (Chlorophyta) (NESP TWQ 3.1.5, AIMS and JCU)

Published on
12 March 2020

This dataset shows the effects of herbicides (detected in the Great Barrier Reef catchments) on the growth rates (from cell density data) and photosynthesis (effective quantum yield) on the green algae Raphidocelis subcapitata during laboratory experiments conducted during 2019. The aims of this project were to develop and apply standard ecotoxicology protocols to determine the effects of Photosystem II (PSII) and alternative herbicides on the growth and photosynthetic efficiency of the green algae Raphidocelis subcapitata.

Effects of herbicide exposure on growth and photosynthetic efficiency of the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea maremetens (NESP TWQ 3.1.5, AIMS and JCU)

Published on
11 March 2020

This dataset shows the effects of hexazinone (detected in the Great Barrier Reef catchments) on growth (as bell surface area), photosynthesis (effective quantum yield), zooxanthellae density (cells mm-2) and statolith number on the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea maremetens during laboratory experiments conducted in 2017.

Effects of herbicide exposure on growth and photosynthetic efficiency of the green algae Desmodesmus asymmetricus (Chlorophyta) (NESP TWQ 3.1.5, AIMS and JCU)

Published on
11 March 2020

This dataset shows the effects of herbicides (detected in the Great Barrier Reef catchments) on the growth rates (from cell density data) and photosynthesis (effective quantum yield) on the green algae Desmodesmus asymmetricus during laboratory experiments conducted during 2019. The aims of this project were to develop and apply standard ecotoxicology protocols to determine the effects of Photosystem II (PSII) and alternative herbicides on the growth and photosynthetic efficiency of the green algae Desmodesmus asymmetricus.

Effects of herbicide exposure on growth and photosynthetic efficiency of the lesser duckweed Lemna aequinoctialis (Tracheophyta – Liliopsida) (NESP TWQ 3.1.5, AIMS and JCU)

Published on
11 March 2020

This dataset shows the effects of herbicides (detected in the Great Barrier Reef catchments) on the growth rates (from frond number and surface area) and photosynthesis (effective quantum yield) on the duckweed Lemna aequinoctialis during laboratory experiments conducted from 2017-2019. The aims of this project were to develop and apply standard ecotoxicology protocols to determine the effects of Photosystem II (PSII) and alternative herbicides on the growth and photosynthetic efficiency of the lesser duckweed Lemna aequinoctialis.

Effects of herbicide exposure on growth of the stonewort Ceratophyllum demersum (Tracheophyta – Magnoliopsida) (NESP TWQ 3.1.5, AIMS and JCU)

Published on
11 March 2020

This dataset shows the effects of herbicides (detected in the Great Barrier Reef catchments) on the growth rates (from stem length and biomass) on the stonewort Ceratophyllum demersum during laboratory experiments conducted in 2019. The aims of this project were to develop and apply standard ecotoxicology protocols to determine the effects of non-PSII herbicides on the growth of the stonewort Ceratophyllum demersum. Growth bioassays were performed over 7-day exposures using herbicides that have been detected in the Great Barrier Reef catchment area (O’Brien et al. 2016).

Effects of herbicide exposure on growth and photosynthetic efficiency of the microalgae Chlorella sp. (Chlorophyta) (NESP TWQ 3.1.5, AIMS and JCU)

Published on
11 March 2020

This dataset shows the effects of herbicides (detected in the Great Barrier Reef catchments) on the growth rates (from cell density data) and photosynthesis (effective quantum yield) on the microalgae Chlorella sp. during laboratory experiments conducted from 2017-2019. The aims of this project were to develop and apply standard ecotoxicology protocols to determine the effects of Photosystem II (PSII) and alternative herbicides on the growth and photosynthetic efficiency of the microalgae Chlorella sp.

Effects of herbicide exposure on growth and photosynthetic efficiency of the aquatic fern Azolla pinnata (Pteridophyta) (NESP TWQ 3.1.5, AIMS and JCU)

Published on
09 March 2020

This dataset shows the effects of herbicides (detected in the Great Barrier Reef catchments) on growth rates (from surface area and biomass) and photosynthesis (effective quantum yield) on the aquatic fern Azolla pinnata during laboratory experiments conducted in 2019. The aims of this project were to develop and apply standard ecotoxicology protocols to determine the effects of Photosystem II (PSII) and alternative herbicides on the growth and photosynthetic efficiency of the aquatic fern Azolla pinnata.

eReefs GBR1 and GBR4 model boundary and grid in shapefile format (AIMS)

Published on
13 February 2020

This dataset consists of shapefiles that correspond to the model grids used in the CSIRO eReefs hydrodynamic and biogeochemical models. These models store their results in multi-dimensional NetCDF files using a curvilinear grid. This dataset corresponds to an extract from these files converting the curvilinear grid into polygons in a shapefile. This dataset only captures the structure of the grid, not the time series data generated by the model.

Sediment deposition data (NESP TWQ 2.1.9, AIMS)

Published on
06 February 2020

This dataset consists of 1 excel data files (.xlsx format) that contains the results from the in situ deployment of instruments in Cleveland Bay to measure sediment deposition from a trailer suction hopper dredge working in Platypus channel. The aim of the study was to measure sediment deposition rates caused by a working Trailer Suction Hopper dredge in Platypus channel in Cleveland Bay. Methods: Two deposition sensors were deployed on the seabed 100 m (-19.226083° 146.843500°) away from the edge of the Platypus channel in Cleveland Bay near marker beacon P11 at a depth of 5–8 m.

Chronic effects of sediment-induced changes in light quality (spectral shifts) and quantity on corals and sponges. (NESP TWQ 2.1.9, AIMS)

Published on
05 February 2020

This dataset consists of one data file (spreadsheet) from a 28-d experiment examining sediment-induced changes in the spectral quality and quantity of light on three coral species (Acropora millepora, Pocillopora verrucosa and Montipora aequituberculata) and one encrusting sponge species (Cliona orientalis). The aim of the study was to use ecologically relevant turbidity and light profiles obtained from field-based data to test the effects of sediment induced spectral shifts and quantities of light on corals and sponges.

Adjusting tropical marine water quality guideline values for elevated ocean temperatures (NESP TWQ 2.1.6, NESP TWQ 5.2 and NESP TWQ 3.1.5, AIMS)

Published on
24 January 2020

This data contains consists of one Excel spreadsheet file containing the thermal stress data used to develop the Species Sensitivity Distribution described in the publication: Negri, A.P., Smith, R.A., King, O., Frangos, J., Warne, M. St-J., Uthicke, S. (2019) Adjusting tropical marine water quality guideline values for elevated ocean temperatures Environmental Science and Technology 54: 1102-1110 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b05961. The increased frequency of heatwaves and poor water quality represent two of the most prevalent and severe pressures faced by coral reefs globally.

Eye-tracking data of the 2017 Aesthetic value project (NESP TWQ 3.2.3, Griffith Institute for Tourism Research)

Published on
25 November 2019

This dataset consists of three data folders for the eye-tracking experiment conducted within the NESP 3.2.3 project (Tropical Water Quality Hub): Folder (1) The folder of Eye-tracking videos contains 66 Tobii recordings of participants’ eye movements on screen, Folder (2) The Heatmaps folder includes 21 heatmaps created by Tobii eye-tracking software on the basis of 66 participants’ data and Folder (3) The input folder has 21 original pictures used in eye-tracking experiment.

Algorithm data for the 2017 aesthetic value project (NESP TWQ 3.2.3, Griffith Institute for Tourism Research)

Published on
25 November 2019

This dataset contains the caffe deep-learning framework along with the setup for image aesthetic train and test code for the Algorithm data. We used NVIDIA-digit 6 environment and this version use caffe 0.15.14 More details information can be found in http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org. This dataset consists of two folders which are related to automatic aesthetic rating of images using Deep Learning. . GBR-Aesthetics-Data: This folder contains few sub folders. 1. data-images: - 2500 images used to survey the score.

Online survey data for the 2017 Aesthetic value project (NESP TWQ 3.2.3, Griffith Institute for Tourism Research)

Published on
22 November 2019

This dataset consists of three data folders including all related documents of the online survey conducted within the NESP 3.2.3 project (Tropical Water Quality Hub) and a survey format document representing how the survey was designed. Apart from participants’ demographic information, the survey consists of three sections: conjoint analysis, picture rating and open question. Correspondent outcome of these three sections are downloaded from Qualtrics website and used for three different data analysis processes.

Keppel Islands Regional Maps (satellite imagery, habitat mapping and A0 maps) (AIMS)

Published on
14 November 2019

This dataset collection contains A0 maps of the Keppel Island region based on satellite imagery and fine-scale habitat mapping of the islands and marine environment. This collection provides the source satellite imagery used to produce these maps and the habitat mapping data. The imagery used to produce these maps was developed by blending high-resolution imagery (1 m) from ArcGIS Online with a clear-sky composite derived from Sentinel 2 imagery (10 m).

Vertical light profiling data (NESP TWQ 2.1.9, AIMS)

Published on
14 November 2019

The aim of the study was to obtain light and turbidity vertical profile data through the water column in Cleveland Bay over a four-day period and during maintenance dredging to use for developing an empirical spectral solar irradiance model. This dataset consists of 95 data files (spreadsheets). One file (.xlsx format) contains the spectral attenuation coefficient for downwelling light, Kd (lambda), for the 94 different vertical profiles taken within Cleveland Bay.