This dataset contains geoscientific data logged during PACLARK 3 cruise on HMAS Cook 1-12 February 1988 in Western Woodlark Basin, Papua New Guinea. These data include logged station coordinates and information for dredges, sediment grabs and seismic surveys. During four and a half days of a 3190 nautical mile deployment from Sydney to Port Moresby, HMAS Cook carried out a survey pf the Western Woodlark Basin, constituting the third PACLARK cruise. A total of 1200 nautical miles (2200km) of traverse were conducted with the stabilised narrow beam echo sounder system (SNBESS) operating almost continuously. Total magnetic field intensity was recorded during these traverses for subsequent interpretation. A single channel airgun seismic system was deployed on three traverses totalling 135 nautical miles (250km). The south flank of the pinnacle surmounting Dobu Seamount was dredged from 450m and 350m depth. En route to and from Woorlark Basin, SNBESS swaths were also obtained of the main shipping channel through the Louisade Archipelago and of the Coral Sea along tracks Sydney-Jomard Entrance-Port Moresby.
This dataset contains the processed Hydrology or "Bottle Data" (HYD) data collected on COOK cruise Cook 1/59. This voyage took place in the Pacific Ocean off New Caledonia from 29/3/1959 to 11/5/1959. This dataset has been processed and is archived within the CSIRO Marine ResearchData Centre in Hobart.',
The CMAR Hydrology data set includes data collected since 1942 during the voyages of Australia's Marine National Facility, and of various CSIRO marine research vessels and coastal stations. Hydrology data usually consists of salinity and nutrient values obtained by analysing water samples taken at several depths at each station. The data may include temperature for some depths, nutrients may include any or all of ammonia, nitrite, phosphate, nitrate, silicate, oxygen. Individual metadata records have been created for each research voyage. The data is held in the CMAR Data Warehouse, which currently holds over 45,000 Hydrology station records from more than 500 voyages.