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Particle size distribution data and major and trace element geochemistry data from end of river sites and flood plumes for the Burdekin and Tully Rivers as well as additional sites in the Johnstone, Ross and Haughton Rivers (NESP project 5.8, JCU)

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  • National Environmental Science Program Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) Hub - Funding Program - 2015 - 2020 (Dept. of the Environment and Energy)
    • Particle size distribution data and major and trace element geochemistry data from end of river sites and flood plumes for the Burdekin and Tully Rivers as well as additional sites in the Johnstone, Ross and Haughton Rivers (NESP project 5.8, JCU)



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Data identification (MCP)
Citation
Citation
Title  Particle size distribution data and major and trace element geochemistry data from end of river sites and flood plumes for the Burdekin and Tully Rivers as well as additional sites in the Johnstone, Ross and Haughton Rivers (NESP project 5.8, JCU)
Date
Date
Date  2021-02-22
Date type  publication: date identifies when the resource was issued
Cited responsible party
Individual name  Bainbridge, Zoe, Dr
Organisation name  Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University
Role  principalInvestigator: key party responsible for gathering information and conducting research
Contact Information
Contact
Phone
Telephone
Voice  +61 4 2784 5330
Address
Address
City  Townsville
Administrative area  Queensland
Postal code  4810
Country  Australia
Electronic mail address  zoe.bainbridge@jcu.edu.au
Cited responsible party
Individual name  Lewis, Stephen, Dr
Organisation name  Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University
Role  coInvestigator: one of the key parties responsible for gathering information and conducting research
Contact Information
Contact
Phone
Telephone
Voice  +61 7 4781 6629
Address
Address
City  Townsville
Administrative area  Queensland
Postal code  4810
Country  Australia
Electronic mail address  stephen.lewis@jcu.edu.au
Abstract 

The dataset contains the particle size distribution analysis (on a Malvern Mastersizer 3000 laser diffraction) and major and trace element geochemistry data for end of river and flood plume samples from the 2017, 2018 and 2019 Burdekin flood events as well as for the 2017 and 2018 Tully flood events. Additional data are provided from the Ross River, Haughton River and Johnstone River.

* This dataset is currently under embargo.

The grain size data were analysed following treatment with H2O2 which is designed to remove the organic material from the samples. Hence the data should be considered as a ‘treated grain size’ according to the protocols recommended in the Bainbridge et al. (in review) manuscript. The dataset represents the first time end of river and plume samples have been treated to examine the primary grain size. In addition, these are the first samples analysed from the > 25 PSU zone in the plume and samples > 10 PSU for grain size and geochemistry were also rare.

Bainbridge, Z. Lewis, S. Stevens, T. Petus, C. Lazarus, E. Gorman, J. Smithers, S. in review. Measuring sediment grain size across the catchment to reef continuum: Improved methods and environmental insights. Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Methods:

Our dataset includes end-of-river (EoR) suspended sediment samples from the Burdekin and Tully Rivers captured during high flow events that occurred over the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 water years, and also the 2018-2019 water year for the Burdekin. Opportunistic, representative samples were also collected from the neighbouring South Johnstone River (Wet Tropics) in 2018, and the Herbert (Wet Tropics), Ross and Haughton (Dry Tropics) Rivers in 2019. In total 15 samples were analysed for the Burdekin, three for the Tully, two for the Ross and one each for the neighbouring South Johnstone, Herbert and Haughton Rivers. The Herbert River sample was a composite of daily sampling across the discharge peak from 4th to 7th February, 2019. Samples were collected off bridges with a 10 L container.

Flood plume sampling along the estuarine salinity gradient from the river mouth was conducted immediately following EoR sample collection. Given the larger size and duration of the Burdekin flood plume, sample sites targeted the movement of the plume over a number of days guided by near real-time MODIS satellite imagery. Sites were located along a salinity gradient transect extending from the freshwater reaches of the estuary and sites were selected to coincide with the environmental instrument arrays installed at Orchard Rocks, Havannah Island and Dunk Island. Flood plume samples were collected using the SediPump® high-volume filtration system to ensure adequate samples sizes to complete the analyses. Pump durations at each site were 2-3 hours, which includes the time to collect the depth samples (1-2m above local benthic depth).

For further details on the grain size analysis see:

Bainbridge, Z. Lewis, S. Stevens, T. Petus, C. Lazarus, E. Gorman, J. Smithers, S. in review. Measuring sediment grain size across the catchment to reef continuum: Improved methods and environmental insights. Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Limitations of the data:

The sample pre-treatment of the grain size data need to be understood where H2O2 was used to remove the organics from the sample.

Format:

The data are provided as a Microsoft Excel file.

References:

Lewis, S., Bainbridge, Z. Stevens, T., Garzon-Garcia, A., Chen, C., Bahadori, M., Burton, J., James, C., Smithers, S. and Olley, J. (2020) What’s really damaging the Reef?: Tracing the origin and fate of the environmentally detrimental sediment and associated bioavailable nutrients. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (250pp.).

Bainbridge, Z. Lewis, S. Stevens, T. Petus, C. Lazarus, E. Gorman, J. Smithers, S. in review. Measuring sediment grain size across the catchment to reef continuum: Improved methods and environmental insights. Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Data Location:

This dataset is filed in the eAtlas enduring data repository at: data\nesp5\5.8_Origin-detrimental-sediment\

Point of contact
Individual name  Bainbridge, Zoe, Dr
Organisation name  Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University
Role  pointOfContact: party who can be contacted for acquiring knowledge about or acquisition of the resource
Contact Information
Contact
Phone
Telephone
Voice  +61 427845330
Address
Address
City  Townsville
Administrative area  Queensland
Postal code  4810
Country  Australia
Electronic mail address  zoe.bainbridge@jcu.edu.au
Website
OnLine resource  eAtlas portal
Resource constraints
Commons License
Current License
Jurisdiction: au Attribution 3.0 Australia Attribution 3.0 Australia
Language  English
Character set  utf8: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
Topic category
Topic category code  biota
Extent
Extent
Description  Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Geographic element
Polygon
POLYGON((151.083984375 -24.521484375,153.80859375 -24.521484375,153.45703125 -20.830078125,147.12890625 -17.490234375,145.810546875 -13.798828125,144.4921875 -12.832031250000002,144.228515625 -9.84375,142.119140625 -9.931640625,142.3828125 -11.77734375,143.61328125000003 -14.765625,144.755859375 -14.94140625,146.337890625 -19.599609375,148.447265625 -21.005859375000004,151.083984375 -24.521484375))
Temporal element
Temporal Extent (MCP)
Extent
Begin date  2017-01-11
End date  2019-02-15
Distribution and On-line Resource(s)
OnLine resource
OnLine resource  Point of truth URL of this metadata record
OnLine resource
OnLine resource  NESP TWQ 5.8 project page
OnLine resource
OnLine resource  eAtlas Web Mapping Service (WMS) (AIMS)
OnLine resource
OnLine resource  Project web site
Data quality info
Data quality
Scope
Scope
Hierarchy level  dataset: information applies to the dataset
Metadata constraints
Commons License
Current License
Jurisdiction: au Attribution 3.0 Australia Attribution 3.0 Australia
Metadata Info
File identifier  e1bd187e-40b6-4bb0-9706-6b7137121096
Metadata language  English
Character set  utf8: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
Parent identifier  National Environmental Science Program Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) Hub - Funding Program - 2015 - 2020 (Dept. of the Environment and Energy)
Hierarchy level  dataset: information applies to the dataset
Contact
Individual name  eAtlas Data Manager
Organisation name  Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
Role  metadataContact: party who can be contacted about the metadata
Contact Information
Contact
Phone
Telephone
Voice  +61 7 4753 4444
Address
Address
Delivery point  PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE
City  Townsville
Administrative area  Queensland
Postal code  4810
Country  Australia
Electronic mail address  e-atlas@aims.gov.au
Website
OnLine resource  eAtlas portal
Date stamp  2021-02-23T03:18:51
Metadata standard name  Australian Marine Community Profile of ISO 19115:2005/19139
Metadata standard version  1.4
Revision Date  2021-02-23T03:18:51