AIMS Geonetwork
Water Quality monitoring of Cleveland Bay for the Port of Townsville Limited
Five sites within Cleveland Bay were instrumented with Wetlabs NTU (turbidity), LiCor PAR (light as PAR) and Diver CTD instruments with monthly data download and collection of water samples for TSS analysis. Instruments were deployed in September 2014 and removed in August 2017 under a contract with the Port of Townsville Limited (PoTL).The work was to understand background and dredging turbidity within the bay. Sites were located in the eastern part of the Bay (JCU Seagrass Watch site 'Meadow-19' = Site CB), at Florence (Site FB), Geoffrey (Site GB) and Picnic Bays (Site PB) around magnetic Island and at Virago Shoals (Site VS) off Pallarenda.Data from the Cleveland Bay AIMS weather station were also provided along with MMP data for Picnic Bay.
To monitor background levels of turbidity (as NTU and underwater light) in the Bay and to provide information on potential impacts of maintenance dredging on turbidity levels at sensitive receptor sites (Coral Reefs - Florence, Geoffrey and Picnic Bays, Seagrass - Virago Shoals and Meadow-19).
Data was collected from September 2014 through to August 2017,
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Identification info
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-10-17T00:00:00
Publisher
Owner
- Website
- AIMS Web Site
- Website
- AIMS Web Site
- Status
- Under development
Point of contact
- Temporal resolution
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- Topic category
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- Oceans
Extent
- Description
- Cleveland Bay
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Extent
- Description
- Collective resources start and end dates
Temporal extent
- Time position
- 2014-09-12
- Time position
- 2017-08-11
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Continual
- AODN Discovery Parameter Vocabulary
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- All AIMS data, products and services are provided "as is" and AIMS does not warrant their fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. While AIMS has made every reasonable effort to ensure high quality of the data, products and services, to the extent permitted by law the data, products and services are provided without any warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of title, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. AIMS make no representation or warranty that the data, products and services are accurate, complete, reliable or current. To the extent permitted by law, AIMS exclude all liability to any person arising directly or indirectly from the use of the data, products and services.
- Access constraints
- Restricted
- Other constraints
- The data was collected under contract between AIMS and another party(s). Specific agreements for access and use of the data shall be negotiated separately. Contact the AIMS Data Centre (adc@aims.gov.au) for further information
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
Identifier
Identifier
- Description
- Conductance is a temperature corrected value, and approximates what the AC (Actual Conductivity) of a solution would be at 25 degrees Celsisus.
Identifier
- Description
- Estimate of suspended sediment concentration based on the proportion of a light transmission in the water column that is reflected back to a co-located receiver.
Identifier
- Code
- PAR light
Identifier
- Description
- The degree of hotness of the water column expressed against a standard scale. Includes both IPTS-68 and ITS-90 scales.
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Statement: Data automatically QC'ed and then manually QC'ed.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- c9b04297-fcc5-4f07-a7f9-316407ba1ac6
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Hours of service
- 0800 to 1640 UTC+10: Monday to Friday
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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Point of truth URL of this metadata record
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2017-10-09T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2017-11-20T00:00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
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