Aurora Australis Voyage 7.2 (HIMS) 1989-90 Heard Island Zooplankton Data

This dataset contains the data from Voyage 7.2 1989-90 of the Aurora Australis. The observations were taken from around Heard Island between May and June 1990. The objective of the zooplankton program was to determine the composition, distribution and abundance of zooplankton with the Heard Island-Kerguelen area, thus providing information of food availability to planktivorous fish. Surveys of krill and other zooplankton were made to obtain species identity and abundance data, length and age. Euphausia valentini and Themisto gaudichaudi were found to be the dominant species in the region. Other major species included the euphausiid Thysanoessa, the copepod Rhincalanus gigas and chaetognaths of the genus Sagitta. This dataset is a subset of the full cruise.

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Identification info

Alternate title
Aurora Australis Voyage 7.2 (HIMS) 1989-90 Heard Island Zooplankton Data
Date (Publication)
1999-10-07
Edition
1

Originator

Hosie, G.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

HOSIE, GRAHAM
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Collaborator

HOSIE, GRAHAM
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AADC-00098

Status
Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans

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Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
1990-05-22 1990-06-24
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN ACOUSTICS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > PLANKTON > ZOOPLANKTON
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > SPECIES LIFE HISTORY
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > POPULATION DYNAMICS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS > BIOMASS DYNAMICS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • TRAWL
  • CPR > Continuous Plankton Recorder
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • SHIPS
  • R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • AMD
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS

Resource constraints

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This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

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Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
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licence
Other constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AADC-00098 when using these data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Distributor

Fees
Free
Planned available datetime
1999-10-07T00:00:00
OnLine resource
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

See the HIMS voyage page - contains links to data and more information

OnLine resource
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION > GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

Download the CPR report for the voyage

OnLine resource
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Resource lineage

Statement
Only 17 RMT hauls were able to be made due to severe conditions. The main sampling system used was a rectangular midwater trawl (RMT 8) of 8 square meter mouth area, and 4.5 mm mesh. Initially 0-200 meter downward hauls were made, followed by 0-150m hauls. On runs between stations more than 30 nautical miles apart, a continuous underway (Hardy) plankton recorder (CPR) was used, 300 micro-meter mesh internally. Between Heard Island and Kerguelen, and after Kerguelen the CPR was deployed for normal run times of about 500 nautical miles. 17 RMT 8 shots were made, plus 11 short CPR runs of 30-50 nautical miles and 4 long CPR runs of 250-500 nautical miles. Initial examination was made on board, with the majority of the processing being completed at the Australian Antarctic Division.
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2014-09-09 - record updated by Dave Connell.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/AADC-00098

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

HOSIE, GRAHAM
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
0b86b809-bcbe-4112-aa45-746dc5aca758

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2015-04-08T11:17:10

Identifier

Description
metadata.extraction_date

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
8.6

Metadata linkage
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AADC-00098

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
1999-10-07T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2014-09-22

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
Edition
2014
Other citation details
Version 1
Title
DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
 
 

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