Marine plastics found at Heard Island and Macquarie Island

This project monitored plastics at the four-bays area on Heard Island and at Sandell Bay on Macquarie Island. It characterised plastics by infra-red spectroscopy both from the beach collection and small pieces from fur-seal stomachs and cormorant boluses. The aim was to assess human impact on the ocean by measuring plastic abundance and type.

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Identification info

Alternate title
Marine plastics found at Heard Island and Macquarie Island
Date (Publication)
2010-08-13
Edition
1
Citation identifier
Dataset DOI

Title
Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
Date (Publication)
2012-04-23
Citation identifier
ISO 26324:2012

Citation identifier
doi:10.26179/5c53c1d89713d

Originator

Burton, H.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

BURTON, HARRY
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Collaborator

BURTON, HARRY
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Marine_Plastics_Heard_Macquarie

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
  • Oceans
  • Environment

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Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
1986-01-01 1989-12-31
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > CONTAMINANT LEVELS/SPILLS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > WATER QUALITY > OCEAN CONTAMINANTS
Keywords
  • Flotsam
  • Debris
  • rubbish
  • Marine Debris
  • garbage
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • FIELD INVESTIGATION
  • FIELD SURVEYS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • AMD
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS

Resource constraints

Use limitation
This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

Access constraints
licence
Other constraints
These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.

Resource constraints

File type
Portable Network Graphic
Linkage
Creative Commons by Attribution logo

Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

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Use constraints
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=Marine_Plastics_Heard_Macquarie 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
2010-08-13T00:00:00
Units of distribution
kb
Transfer size
14
Distribution format
  • Excel

OnLine resource
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OnLine resource
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Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Resource lineage

Statement
Monthly beach collections were made by a human observer. Material was classed by infra-red spectroscopy. The values provided in temporal and spatial coverage are approximate only.
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2010-08-13 - Dave Connell merged the records Flotsam_HI and Flotsam_MI into this single record, as both records pointed to the same dataset. 2019-02-01 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/Marine_Plastics_Heard_Macquarie

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

CONNELL, DAVE J.
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
292b254c-9289-4edd-8c61-5dfd65bff05d

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2019-02-01T14:43:29

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/Marine_Plastics_Heard_Macquarie

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
1999-10-07T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2019-02-01

Metadata standard

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

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