Records of collisions between vessels and whales in Australian waters between 1872 and 2015 as described in the paper Peel, D., Smith, J. N., & Childerhouse, S. (2018). Vessel Strike of Whales in Australia: The Challenges of Analysis of Historical Incident Data. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, 69. This record has been created to facilitate access to the original data collection at https://doi.org/10.25919/5be5086a6fda1

This record provides an overview of the scope and research output of the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub project "Shark action plan". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata. -------------------- Sharks, rays and chimaeras are increasingly recognised as conservation priorities in Australia and globally, with several species affected by overexploitation, bycatch, habitat pressures, and climate change. Considering common threats and data gaps across these taxa can support more consistent conservation assessment, policy and management. This project produced two major publications to strengthen the evidence base for shark, ray and chimaera conservation in Australia. The Shark Action Plan Policy Report 2018 reviewed extinction risk, distribution, data gaps, priority assessment needs, common threats, climate change research, and policy issues for internationally listed and Conservation Dependent species. The Action Plan for Australian Sharks and Rays 2021 assessed the national extinction risk of Australia’s 328 shark, ray and chimaera species using International Union for Conservation of Nature criteria. Assessments considered available information on taxonomy, distribution, population status, habitat, ecology, threats, use and trade, and conservation measures. The project provided a national benchmark for tracking future changes in species status, identified species requiring further research, and recommended conservation objectives for each species. Outputs support threatened species listing processes, fisheries and conservation management, and policy development at Commonwealth, state and territory levels.

The ETAS (Eastern TASmania) model is a high-resolution (~2 km in the horizontal) ocean model for eastern Tasmania, providing three-dimensional estimates of monthly mean temperature, salinity, and circulation over the 1993-2016 period. This dataset consists of temperature, salinity, meridional (N-S), zonal (E-W), vertical, along- and cross-shore currents, density, sea level and net surface heat flux organised into yearly files. A MATLAB script to extract portions of the data is available here: https://github.com/ecjoliver/extractETAS

The Australian Shellfish Reef Restoration Network is a recently established Community of Practice which brings together organisations and individuals interested in shellfish reef education, conservation, restoration and management. The Network aims to improve awareness of shellfish reef habitat and educate the broader public on the value of shellfish habitat conservation and restoration. The Network also promotes communication, restoration training, policy and regulation, research and development and implementation amongst network members. This record describes images collected by the Australian Shellfish Reef Restoration Network and freely available on https://shellfishreefs.smugmug.com/

Sea snake sightings from Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations deployed by the Australian Institute of Marine Science were used to predict locations that are likely important habitats for sea snake populations within the North West Marine Region (NWMR). Presence/Absence of sea snakes were modelled with environmental parameters using Gradient Boosted Regression Tree model to predict habitat suitability within the 1000 m depth contour along the NWMR. This output is a result of work conducted as part of the NESP Marine Hub Project A8- 'Exploring the status of Western Australia's sea snakes'. See project page for more details and updates: https://www.nespmarine.edu.au/project/project-a8-exploring-status-western-australian-sea-snakes

The ETAS (Eastern TASmania) model is a high-resolution (~2 km in the horizontal) ocean model for eastern Tasmania, providing three-dimensional estimates of mean temperature, salinity, and circulation over the 1993-2016 period. This dataset consists of temperature, salinity, meridional (N-S), zonal (E-W), vertical, along- and cross-shore currents, density, sea level and net surface heat flux organised into yearly files and aggregated daily or monthly. A MATLAB script to extract portions of the data is available here: https://github.com/ecjoliver/extractETAS