Soft sediment assemblages at Casey Station: Brown Bay Grid - samples taken along a pollution gradient.
A survey of macrobenthic assemblages in soft-sediments was done at Casey Station, East Antarctica. Samples were taken along four transects in Brown Bay, along a pollution gradient that has its source at an abandoned waste tip on the shore of Brown Bay. The transects were up to 300 M long and there were 9 sampling stations on each transect except for transect four which had only 4 sampling stations. Sampling stations were at the following distances from the shoreline and tip site: 10 m, 20 m, 30 m, 40 m, 50 m, 100 m, 150 m, 200 m, and 300 m. Two cores of the soft-sediment assemblages were taken at each sampling station and two cores for analysis of heavy metals and hydrocarbons.
Samples were taken by divers using hand-held corers (fauna core size - 10 cm diameter by 10 cm deep; sediment analysis cores - 5 cm diam. by 10 cm deep). The aims were: 1) to determine the nature and extent of the contamination gradient in front of the tip site and; 2) to determine if there was a corresponding response in the soft-sediment assemblages along the contamination gradient.
A total of 62 samples of soft-sediment assemblages and 62 samples for heavy metal and hydrocarbon analysis were taken. Sediment grain size was also examined at each sampling point. The benthic diatom communities were also analysed in each sample.
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Position
Site and replicate
Species
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Identification info
- Alternate title
- Soft sediment assemblages at Casey Station: Brown Bay Grid - samples taken along a pollution gradient.
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-09-07
- Edition
- 2
- Citation identifier
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Dataset DOI
- Title
- Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
- Date (Publication)
- 2012-04-23
- Citation identifier
- ISO 26324:2012
- Citation identifier
- doi:10.4225/15/59b0c42f7cf00
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Collaborator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
Spatial resolution
- Vertical sampling distance
- 1
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
- Oceans
- Transportation
Extent
Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 1998-12-15 1999-01-18
Extent
- Description
- Vertical Extent - Depth
Vertical element
- Minimum value
- 5
- Maximum value
- 35
- Identifier
- urn:x-ogc:def:cs:EPSG:6498
- Name
- Vertical CS. Axis: depth (D). Orientation: down. UoM: m.
- Identifier
- urn:x-ogc:def:axis:EPSG:113
- Name
- depth
- Title
- Human impacts and assemblages in marine soft-sediments at Casey Station, Antarctica
- Date (Publication)
- 2001
Author
- Name
- PhD Thesis
- Page
- University of New England
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > CONTAMINANT LEVELS/SPILLS
- EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > HEAVY METALS CONCENTRATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > SEWAGE DISPOSAL
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING > MARINE OBSTRUCTIONS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ECHINODERMS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > MOLLUSKS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > SEGMENTED WORMS (ANNELIDS)
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PROTISTS > DIATOMS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > MICROALGAE > DIATOMS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > COASTAL
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > POPULATION DYNAMICS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > SPECIES DOMINANCE INDICES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
- Keywords
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- ASSEMBLAGE
- BENTHIC
- COMMUNITY
- CORE SAMPLES
- DIATOMS
- DISTANCE
- HUMAN IMPACT
- MACROBENTHOS
- POLLUTION
- POSITION
- SITE AND REPLICATE
- SPATIAL VARIATION
- SPECIES
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- CORING DEVICES
- MICROSCOPES
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- FIELD INVESTIGATION
- FIELD SURVEYS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- CEOS
- AMD/AU
- AMD
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > East Antarctica
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Casey Station
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Brown Bay
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
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- This metadata record is publicly available.
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- These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.
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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=ASAC_2201_Casey_benthic_BBG when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
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Distributor
- Fees
- free
- Planned available datetime
- 2017-09-07T00:00:00
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- kb
- Transfer size
- 10
- Distribution format
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- excel
- OnLine resource
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Download point for the data
- OnLine resource
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PROJECT HOME PAGE
Public information for ASAC project 2201
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Resource lineage
- Statement
- Gammarid, Isopod, gastropod faunas identified at the Australian Museum. Remaining faunas identified by J. Stark. Diatoms identified by L. Cunningham. 2018-09-25 - The original datasheet was reformatted to fit OBIS/GBFI/IPT Biodiversity.AQ standardS. The new datasheet 'caseySurvey_BBGinfauna.csv" provides datasetID, occurrenceID, eventID, locality, locationID, decimalLatitude, decimalLongitude, continent, countryCode, eventDate, occurrenceStatus, organismQuantity, organismQuantityType, basisOfRecord, institutionCode, and protocol. The lowest taxonomical rank of the species identified that could be determined is provided, after matched in WoRMS (World Register of Marine Species).
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2015-09-14 - record updated by Dave Connell. Basic updates. 2017-09-07 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data. 2018-09-25 - record updated by Dave Connell after a reformatted dataset was provided by Daniela Farias for GBIF/OBIS compliance. 2019-04-04 - record updated by Dave Connell for ISO compliance.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/ASAC_2201_Casey_benthic_BBG
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- e45b46ef-5950-4be7-ab89-c383499f7783
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2019-04-04T10:04:26
Identifier
- Description
- metadata.extraction_date
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 8.6
- Metadata linkage
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http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2201_Casey_benthic_BBG
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2001-05-02T00:00:00
- Date info (Last Update)
- 2019-04-04
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
- Edition
- 2014
- Other citation details
- Version 1
- Title
- DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile