IMAS Metadata Catalogue
Storm Bay water quality monitoring
The Storm Bay water quality dataset brings together observations collected through FRDC Project 2018-131: Storm Bay Observing System: Assessing the Performance of Aquaculture Development and FRDC Project 2014-031: Predicting marine currents, nutrients and plankton in the coastal waters of south eastern Tasmania in response to changing weather patterns.
Together, these projects established a long-term monitoring record for Storm Bay, coinciding with the expansion of the Tasmanian salmonid industry in the region. The resulting time series improves understanding of baseline environmental conditions and supports ongoing assessment of the environmental performance of aquaculture activities in Storm Bay.
The data presented here comprise monthly observations of physical, biological and nutrient parameters from long-term Storm Bay monitoring sites associated with the Broadscale Environmental Monitoring Program (BEMP).
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Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2026-09-30T00:00:00
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
- Credit
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)
- Credit
- Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
- Credit
- Sustainable Marine Research Collaboration Agreement (SMRCA)
- Credit
- Analytical Services Tasmania (ASDT)
- Status
- Completed
Principal investigator
- Topic category
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- Oceans
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2009-01-01 2023-05-11
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Environmental monitoring
- Global Change Master Directory Earth Science Keywords, Version 8.5
- AODN Discovery Parameter Vocabulary
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- Temperature of the water body
- Practical salinity of the water body
- Concentration of chlorophyll-a per unit volume of the water body
- Concentration of ammonium {NH4} per unit volume of the water body
- Concentration of nitrate {NO3} per unit volume of the water body
- Concentration of nitrate and nitrite {NO3 and NO2} per unit volume of the water body
- Total Nitrogen
- Concentration of phosphate {PO4} per unit volume of the water body
- Concentration of total phosphorus per unit volume of the water body
- Concentration of silicate {SiO4} per unit volume of the water body
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Website
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- Cite data as: Ross, J. & Coutts, A. (2026). Storm Bay water quality monitoring. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. Accessed from https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/0029e930-1afb-400c-9ba1-fca2fc0c3c9e on [access date]
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- Data, products and services from IMAS are provided "as is" without any warranty as to fitness for a particular purpose.
- Use limitation
- The authors do not warrant that the information in this dataset is free from errors or omissions. The authors do not accept any form of liability, be it contractual, tortious, or otherwise, for the contents of this dataset or for any consequences arising from its use or any reliance placed upon it.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Supplemental Information
- Strain E, White C & Ross J. Institute for Marine and Antarctica Science (2020) The Storm Bay Observing System: Preliminary review of the sampling parameters and design for assessing the performance of salmon aquaculture. Hobart, July. FRDC Project No 2018/131 final report. Swadling KM, Eriksen RS, Beard JM & Crawford CM. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (2017) Salmon Sub-program: Marine currents, nutrients and plankton in the coastal waters of south eastern Tasmania and responses to changing weather patterns, Hobart, Tasmania, June. FRDC Project No 2014/031 final report.
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
Identifier
- Name
- Temperature
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/ULAA
- Name
- Metres
Identifier
- Name
- Salinity
- Identifier
- http://vocab.aodn.org.au/def/unitsofmeasure/entity/481
- Name
- Practical Salinity Unit
Identifier
- Name
- Chlorophyll a
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UGPL
- Name
- Micrograms per litre
- Name
- Ammonium
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UGPL
- Name
- Micrograms per litre
Identifier
- Name
- Nitrate
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UGPL
- Name
- Micrograms per litre
Identifier
- Name
- Nitrate + Nitrite
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UGPL
- Name
- Micrograms per litre
Identifier
- Code
- Total Nitrogen
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UGPL
- Name
- Micrograms per litre
- Name
- Phosphate
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UGPL
- Name
- Micrograms per litre
- Name
- Total Phosphorus
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UGPL
- Name
- Micrograms per litre
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UGPL
- Name
- Micrograms per litre
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- Map only
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Nutrient concentrations were measured from water samples collected in niskin bottles deployed at three depths. These were just below the surface (surface), 10 metres (middle), and 1 metre above the seabed (bottom). Dissolved nutrients were measured from samples filtered through a 0.2 µM PES filter. Chlorophyll samples were measured from 12 metre integrated water column samples collected using a Lund tube. Physical water quality parameters were measured using a Seabird CTD deployed through the entire water column. Surface, middle and bottom observations were extracted by matching their depth to the corresponding nutrient samples.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/0029e930-1afb-400c-9ba1-fca2fc0c3c9e
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Name
- IMAS Dataset level record
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/0029e930-1afb-400c-9ba1-fca2fc0c3c9e
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2026-08-11T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-10-19T18:28:39
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
Spatial extent
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Associated resources
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