Coral Reef Health - Coral calcification and paleoclimatology
This project is aimed at understanding how coral growth has responded to past changes in regional climate across northern Ningaloo and the Pilbara region by analysing the physical and geochemical composition of cores collected from massive coral (Porites spp.). X-ray images of the sliced coral cores provide us with information on seasonal and inter-annual changes in the density and rate of vertical extension from which we can calculate annual rates of coral growth, or more precisely, 'calcification'.
Coral cores from massive Porites spp. were collected from sites across northern Ningaloo (Tantabiddi and Coral Bay in July 2013) and the western Pilbara (Onslow to the Dampier peninsula in April 2014).
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Identification info
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Coral calcification and past climate
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Parties responsible for data collection: Malcolm McCulloch, James Falter, and Anton Kuret (UWA).
Partner Institutions: CSIRO and University of Western Australia (UWA).
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Malcolm McCulloch (UWA)
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Dr. James Falter (UWA)
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The study is funded by the Gorgon Barrow Island Net Conservation Benefit Fund, which forms part of Western Australia's Gorgon gas project - a partnership between Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell.
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- On going
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Role Organisation Electronic mail address Principal investigator James Falter
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- Biota
- Environment
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2013-04 2014-09
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- CSIRO Areas Of Interest
- GCMD Keywords
Resource constraints
- Other constraints
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Please contact the data custodian for detailed information.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Supplemental Information
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The Pilbara Marine Conservation Partnership (PMCP) was an initiative designed to enhance the net conservation benefits of the globally-significant coral reef ecosystems of the Pilbara (Western Australia) by providing an assessment of the condition and trajectory of key ecological values. These assessments were designed to inform and complement existing governance and management arrangements and the PMCP is intended to provide ongoing advice and assessment for conservation efforts in the region, providing lasting benefits.
The PMCP concept is based on three core ecological components, namely:
Coral Reef Health - concentrating mainly on habitat forming primary producers.
Fish and Sharks - their community structure, interactions and impacts on lower trophic levels.
Environmental Pressures - physical and anthropogenic factors that influence the condition of reefs and associated biota.
Distribution Information
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DIGITAL - Spreadsheets - MS Excel
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- OnLine resource
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Pawsey Datashare Link
Note: Data are available to project participants only.
Data quality info
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- Dataset
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Result
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Data were spatially referenced using GPS equipment, and are nominally accurate to ~10m.
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Report
Result
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Data is complete. Please refer to the published literature for more information.
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Resource lineage
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All data sets collated as part of the Pilbara Marine Conservation Partnership (PMCP) are stored within iVEC using data storage from Research Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI).
Please refer to the published literature for a detailed descripton of project methodology.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- WGS84
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 506cd950-371b-4c99-a43e-584557972348
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation Electronic mail address Point of contact CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart
- Date info (Creation)
- 2014-09-05T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2016-10-21T14:55:14
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-3:2018
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Marine Community Profile
- Date (Creation)
- 2019-05-30
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3.0
- Edition date
- 2019-05-30T00:00:00
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation Electronic mail address Custodian Marine Community Profile Governance Committee
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