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Collated OzSET (Australian Surface Elevation Table) data (NESP MaC 1.11)

Tidal wetlands are vulnerable to accelerated rates of sea-level rise projected by climate models. Assessing the resilience, or vulnerability, of these environments requires measurements of rates of vertical accretion, subsidence and elevation gain across a range of coastal settings. The Surface Elevation Table (SET) technique is applied globally to assess the extent of vertical adjustment of tidal wetlands to sea-level rise over decadal timescales. This enables measurement of whether wetlands are keeping pace with sea level rise (measured at tide gauges), or subsiding relative to local sea level rise and thus vulnerable to permanent inundation and loss.


Australia’s network of Surface Elevation Tables is one of the most extensive in the world, consisting of over 200 benchmark monitoring stations from Westernport Bay, Victoria to Darwin Harbour, NT. This record describes the consolidated SET data collated from the Australian network (OzSET) as at 2022. This data can be used for analysing change to the elevation of wetlands wetlands at the study sites encompassed by OzSET.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2022-10-03

Identifier

Title
Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
Citation identifier
ISO 26324:2012

Code
10.25959/4WYK-F503
Codespace
doi.org
Description
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Principal investigator

Macquarie University - Saintilan, Neil
New South Wales
Australia
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Collaborator

The University of Queensland - Lovelock, Catherine
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Status
Completed

Point of contact

Macquarie University - Saintilan, Neil
New South Wales
Australia
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Topic category
  • Biota

Extent



Temporal extent

Time period
2000-02-11 2022-11-30
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords (Theme)
  • National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
  • Surface elevation table
GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • COASTAL
  • WETLANDS
  • COASTAL ELEVATION
  • SEA LEVEL RISE

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Resource constraints

Use limitation
This dataset is hosted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, on behalf of Macquarie University and NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Project 1.11.

Resource constraints

Linkage
http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png

License Graphic

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License


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Website
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

License Text

Other constraints
Cite data as: Saintilan, N., & Lovelock, C. E. (2022). Collated OzSET (Australian Surface Elevation Table) data [Data set]. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. https://doi.org/10.25959/4WYK-F503
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • xls

OnLine resource
DATA ACCESS - OzSET Surface Elevation Table data [direct download]

Resource lineage

Statement
Surface Elevation Table (SET) was used to collect the data. The SET device consists of a vertical benchmark rod that is driven into soil profile (typically 8-25m depth) to support the portable SET device. A portable horizontal arm that is attached to a fixed point at the rod, extending across the marsh surface; at the end of the horizontal arm, vertical pins are lowered into marsh surface at each fixed position, and the height above the horizontal arm is recorded.
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/52824eff-0af8-4e93-9815-14e91b2020bb

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies - IMAS Data Manager ()
Parent metadata
  • NESP MaC Project 1.11 - OzSET: Integration and publication of the Australian Surface Elevation Table dataset

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/52824eff-0af8-4e93-9815-14e91b2020bb

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2015-05-06T11:44:25
Date info (Revision)
2025-03-03T09:05:03

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub Surface elevation table
GCMD Earth Science Keywords
COASTAL COASTAL ELEVATION SEA LEVEL RISE WETLANDS

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