This record contains fisheries statistics, History of Marine Animal Populations, trawling, overfishing from the Australian fishing industry between 1918 and 1923.

The CSIRO archive of observed atmospheric CO2 concentrations at the Aspendale CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research division measured with the CSIRO developed LOFLO Mk2 instrument. LOFLO is an analysis system built around a commercial LI-COR 6251 optical bench which utilizes NDIR (non-dispersive infrared) gas analysis technology to measure CO2 concentrations in sample air. Consuming smaller volumes of calibration gases (approx. 15ml/min) and requiring much less operator intervention, LOFLO measurements have significantly less bias than traditional NDIR measurement techniques. Measurements using LOFLO first began at Cape Grim in May 2000 and has since been expanded to other global stations with the newer improved LOFLO Mk2. Stations using LOFLO include Cape Grim, Maquarie Island, Otways Basin and Aspendale. CO2 measurements are available from the Aspendale Air Pollution Station for the period 24/4/08 until present, with logged data available as yearly ascii text files in hourly averaged and minutely averaged periods for CO2 concentration, standard deviation, max & min values as well as a baseline flag. Typically file size is approximately 500 KB and 12 MB for an hourly averaged and minutely averaged year of data respectively.

This record contains fisheries statistics, History of Marine Animal Populations, trawling, overfishing from the Australian fishing industry between 1951 and 1957.

This record contains fisheries statistics, History of Marine Animal Populations, trawling, overfishing from the Australian fishing industry between 1937 and 1943.

The CSIRO archive of observed atmospheric CO2 concentrations at the Otway Basin Naylor Field (30km WNW of Peterborough) carbon-dioxide geo-sequestration site, measured with the CSIRO developed LOFLO Mk2 instrument. This study (the first of its kind in Australia) by the Cooperative Research Center for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) is to monitor the trial geo-sequestration of CO2 into the depleted gas field (Naylor Field) and to observe the environmental effects to determine the viability and effectiveness of CO2 geo-sequestration. LOFLO is an analysis system built around a commercial LI-COR 6251 optical bench which utilizes NDIR (non-dispersive infrared) gas analysis technology to measure CO2 concentrations in sample air. Consuming smaller volumes of calibration gases (approx. 15ml/min) and requiring much less operator intervention, LOFLO measurements have significantly less bias than traditional NDIR measurement techniques.Measurements using LOFLO first began at Cape Grim in May 2000 and has since been expanded to other global stations with the newer improved LOFLO Mk2. Stations using LOFLO include Cape Grim, Maquarie Island, Otways Basin and Aspendale. CO2 measurements are available from the Otways Basin geosequestration site for the period 12/1/07 until present, with logged data available as yearly ascii text files in hourly averaged and minutely averaged periods for CO2 concentration, standard deviation, max & min values as well as a baseline flag. Typically file size is approximately 500 KB and 12 MB for an hourly averaged and minutely averaged year of data respectively.

School shark pupping areas in inshore waters of Tasmania and Victoria identified by Olsen in the 1940s and 1950s were re-sampled using gillnets & longlines from 1991-97. Current catch rates are much lower at all sites and pups are apparently no longer present at some sites. Additional sampling of mainly inshore embayments in Tasmania and Victoria failed to locate significant new pupping grounds of school shark. Limited sampling in South Australia and Western Australia failed to catch school shark pups. Relatively few gummy shark pups were caught anywhere in this study; no significant pupping grounds were located and pupping appears to take place over scattered locations in inshore waters. Catch data includes a wide variety of sharks, rays and teleosts species, the most numerous being: Squalus megalops, Platycephalus bassensis, Squalus acanthias, Pseudophycis bachus, Aldrichetta forsteri, Mustelus antarticus, Callorhynchus milii, Galeorhinus galeus, Tracurus declivis, Cephaloscyllium laticeps, Neosebastes scorpaenoides, Platycephalus richardsoni, and Sillago bassensis. The fish catch data was taken from school shark nursery areas in Tasmania and Victoria, this study is split into 2 portions, first a 12 month study (91-92), followed by a multi-year study (92-97). Further documentation was added in March 2014, see below.

This dataset contains the processed Dissolved Oxygen Sensor data collected on Franklin voyage FR 02/97. The voyage took place in the Victorian and eastern South Australian coastal waters during 24 January - 4 February 1997. This dataset has been processed and is archived within the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre in Hobart. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the cruise report for this voyage and/or the data processing report (as available). The Dissolved Oxygen measurements from this sensor (mounted on the CTD apparatus) are calibrated against dissolved oxygen measurements from Niskin Bottle samples taken on the same CTD cast. Where present, the Dissolved Oxygen Data are included within the relevant CTD dataset for archiving and/or download.