Recent datasets

This project aims to determine where green and flatback turtles are nesting along the NW Kimberley Coastline and what pressures they face, as this region was recognised by DCCEEW as one of the six priority areas vulnerable to climate change. Using a large aerial imagery dataset captured during the 2023-2024 summer and winter nesting seasons, this project will map nesting sites and assess their vulnerability to climate threats.

This dataset summarises subtidal benthic surveys in North-West Marra Sea Country into 1 GIS shapefile: (1) A point (site) shapefile describes seagrass presence/absence at 63 subtidal sites surveyed by vessel. Methods: The sampling methods used to study, describe and monitor seagrass meadows were developed by TropWATER and tailored to the location and habitat surveyed; these are described in detail in the relevant publications (https://research.jcu.edu.au/tropwater).

This dataset summarises benthic and fish surveys in Marra Sea Country, including the Limmen Marine Park (Commonwealth), Limmen Bight Marine Park (Northern Territory) and adjacent coastal waters into 3 GIS shapefiles. (1) A point (site) shapefile describes (a) seagrass presence/absence, (b) seagrass species composition, (c) algae cover and (d) benthic macro-invertebrate cover at 194 sites surveyed by vessel. (2) A point (site) shapefile describes (a) fish species richness and (b) fish species abundance recorded from BRUVS footage at 96 sites surveyed by vessel.

This dataset summarises intertidal benthic surveys of Masig Island Island, Torres Strait, in September 2024 into 3 GIS shapefiles. (1) The point (site) shapefile describes (a) seagrass presence/absence and (b) seagrass species composition across 139 sites. (2) The meadow (polygon) shapefile describes seagrass communities for the intertidal meadow. (3) The interpolation shapefile describes variation in seagrass biomass across sites for the intertidal meadow.

This dataset summarises intertidal benthic surveys of Dungeness Reef, Torres Strait, in September 2024 into 3 GIS shapefiles. (1) The point (site) shapefile describes (a) seagrass presence/absence and (b) species composition across 109 sites. (2) The meadow (polygon) shapefile describes the seagrass community for the intertidal meadow. (3) The interpolation shapefile describes variation in seagrass biomass across sites for the intertidal meadows. The full report is: Carter A, Proctor M, Forsman S, Scott A, Rasheed M, David M and Torres Strait Regional Authority Land and Sea Rangers (2025).

This dataset summarises intertidal benthic surveys of Orman Reefs, Torres Strait, in August 2024 into 3 GIS shapefiles. (1) The point (site) shapefile describes (a) seagrass presence/absence and (b) seagrass species composition and composition across 144 sites. (2) The meadow (polygon) shapefile describes seagrass communities for the intertidal meadows. (3) The interpolation shapefile describes variation in seagrass biomass across sites for the intertidal meadows.

This dataset consists of the raw data used to calculate 230Th ages for 104 individual dead coral samples obtained from Keswick, Round Top, Scawfell and Derwent Island (Mackay region, Great Barrier Reef) in 2006. Samples were measured using both thermal ionisation mass spectrometry (TIMS) and multi collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC ICPMS) at the Radiogenic Isotope Facility, The University of Queensland.

This dataset summarises intertidal benthic surveys of Masig Island Island, Torres Strait, in September 2021 into 3 GIS shapefiles. (1) The point (site) shapefile describes (a) seagrass presence/absence and (b) seagrass species composition across 120 sites. (2) The meadow shapefile describes seagrass communities for the intertidal meadows. (3) The interpolation shapefile describes variation in seagrass biomass across sites for the intertidal meadows. The full report is: Carter AB, Hoffmann LR, Scott A, David M, Torres Strait Regional Authority Land and Sea Rangers, and Rasheed MA (2022).

This dataset summarises intertidal benthic surveys of Dungeness Reef, Torres Strait, in December 2021 into 3 GIS shapefiles. (1) The point (site) shapefile describes (a) seagrass presence/absence and (b) species composition across 140 sites. (2) The meadow shapefile describes seagrass communities for the intertidal meadows. (3) The interpolation shapefile describes variation in seagrass biomass across sites for the intertidal meadows. The full report is: Carter AB, Hoffmann LR, Scott A, David M, Torres Strait Regional Authority Land and Sea Rangers, and Rasheed MA (2022).

This dataset summarises intertidal benthic surveys of Ugar, Campbell, Nepean Islands, Torres Strait, in March 2022 into 3 GIS shapefiles. (1) The point (site) shapefile describes (a) seagrass presence/absence, (b) species composition, (c) algae cover and (d) benthic macro-invertebrate cover at 404 sites. (2) The meadow shapefile describes seagrass communities for the intertidal meadows. (3) The interpolation shapefile describes variation in seagrass biomass across sites for the intertidal meadows.

This dataset summarises intertidal benthic surveys of Orman Reefs, Torres Strait, in September 2021 into 3 GIS shapefiles. (1) The point (site) shapefile describes (a) seagrass presence/absence and (b) seagrass species composition and composition across 151 sites. (2) The meadow shapefile describes seagrass communities for the intertidal meadows. (3) The interpolation shapefile describes variation in seagrass biomass across sites for the intertidal meadows.

This dataset summarises intertidal benthic surveys of Orman Reefs, Torres Strait in October 2020 into 3 GIS shapefiles. (1) The site shapefile describes (a) seagrass presence/absence and (b) species composition at 160 sites. (2) The meadow shapefile describes seagrass communities for the reef-top meadow. (3) The interpolation shapefile describes variation in seagrass biomass across sites for the two reef-top meadows.

This dataset summarises intertidal benthic surveys of Masig Island Island, Torres Strait, in September 2022 into 3 GIS shapefiles. (1) The point (site) shapefile describes (a) seagrass presence/absence and (b) seagrass species composition across 125 sites. (2) The meadow shapefile describes seagrass communities for the intertidal meadow. (3) The interpolation shapefile describes variation in seagrass biomass across sites for the intertidal meadow. The full report is: Carter AB, Allan SJ, Scott A, Rasheed M and Torres Strait Regional Authority Land and Sea Rangers (2023).

This dataset summarises intertidal benthic surveys of Masig Island, Torres Strait in September 2020 into 3 GIS shapefiles. (1) The site shapefile describes (a) seagrass presence/absence, (b) species composition, (c) algae cover and (d) benthic macro-invertebrate cover at 128 sites. (2) The meadow shapefile describes seagrass communities for the intertidal meadow. (3) The interpolation shapefile describes variation in seagrass biomass within the meadow.

This dataset summarises intertidal benthic surveys of Dungeness Reef, Torres Strait, in September 2023 into 3 GIS shapefiles. (1) The point (site) shapefile describes (a) seagrass presence/absence and (b) species composition across 104 sites. (2) The meadow shapefile describes the seagrass community for the intertidal meadow. (3) The interpolation shapefile describes variation in seagrass biomass across sites for the intertidal meadows. The full report is: Carter A, Proctor M, David M, Scott A, Rasheed M and Torres Strait Regional Authority Land and Sea Rangers (2024).

This dataset summarises intertidal benthic surveys of Dungeness Reef, Torres Strait, in February 2023 into 3 GIS shapefiles. (1) The point (site) shapefile describes (a) seagrass presence/absence and (b) species composition across 113 sites. (2) The meadow shapefile describes the seagrass community for the intertidal meadow. (3) The interpolation shapefile describes variation in seagrass biomass across sites for the intertidal meadows. The full report is: Carter AB, Allan SJ, Scott A, Rasheed M and Torres Strait Regional Authority Land and Sea Rangers (2023).

This dataset provides modelled hourly, 0.01° (~1 km) resolution NetCDF grids of surface flow rates (water flowing over land and in rivers) from 1 Jan 2007 through to 31 Dec 2023 in the catchments of the Great Barrier Reef. This dataset was generated with the Grid‑to‑Grid (G2G) distributed hydrological model configured jointly by the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). Flows were produced based on blended gridded rainfall and potential evapotranspiration with mapped landscape data (terrain, soils, land cover, derived river channel dimensions).

This dataset consists of two years of relative coral recruitment from within and among reefs in the Cairns-Port Douglas region from 2023 to 2025. The dataset includes one csv of the site gps coordinates where recruitment tiles were deployed during annual mass spawning periods in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025. A second csv file provides a summary of recruits recorded per tile at each site in total and, where possible, total recruits for three Scleractinia family groups or ‘Other’ where not identifiable.

This dataset records Scooter Assisted Large Area Diver-based (SALAD) surveys of Crown of Thorns Starfish (CoTS) in the northern Great Barrier Reef from 2019 - 2025. Using scooters allows large coral reef areas to be surveyed, while allowing divers to slow down and spend more time to locate cryptic CoTS where scars on coral are visible. This dataset records the density of CoTS over the survey tracks and size measurements of individual CoTS. This dataset comprises of two inter-related tables.

This dugong (Dugong dugon) aerial survey database compiles observations collected by James Cook University (JCU) from systematic aerial surveys conducted along the Australian coast since 1984. Each survey is represented by a unique survey identifier (eventID), with multiple occurrence records derived from individual sightings made during that survey.