Benthic imagery and light attenuation data from Paluma Shoals, Halifax Bay, Great Barrier Reef, 2016

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This dataset consists of underwater benthic imagery and measurements of light attenuation taken from Paluma Shoals in the Coral Sea following a 2016 El Niño coral bleaching event. Data were collected between 09 and 11 August 2016. Benthic imagery was captured using a SeaViewer Sea-Drop™ Camera (950 Analog model) on 10 August 2016. Light attenuation measurements were taken using a LiCOR LI-192SA Light Meter deployed at a range of depths below the sea surface. These cruises formed the field component of NERC Discovery Science project "Quantifying ENSO-related bleaching on nearshore, turbid-zone coral reefs grant story”. The data were collected following a major El Niño event which caused mass coral bleaching across the Great Barrier Reef. The event provided opportunity to undertake a rapid assessment of the impacts of bleaching on the turbid-zone reefs in the vicinity of Paluma Shoals (central Halifax Bay). The aim of the project is to ascertain: 1) The total extent of bleaching-induced mortality; 2) The extent to which specific coral species have been impacted; 3) Any immediate impacts on the structural complexity and diversity of the reefs. The Discovery Science project was composed of Standard Grant NE/P007694/1. The grant was held by the University of Exeter, School of Geography and led by Professor Christopher Perry. The funding period ran from 01 July 2016 to 31 March 2017. All data described have been received by BODC from the RRS James Clark Ross and will be processed and made available online in the future. Raw data are available on request. No further data are expected from this project.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2019-07-17
• Access contraints: Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
• Harvest GUID: 6e88c828194753caa7315a4e836df8e2
• Extent: Latitude: -7.0298° to -28.4949°
• Extent: Longitude: 138.9776° to 171.1945°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
• Dataset reference date: 2019-07-17 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2019-01-03 (creation)
• Dataset reference date: 2019-01-03 (revision)
• Frequency of update: asNeeded
• Responsible party: University of Exeter Department of Geography (originator); British Oceanographic Data Centre (custodian)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
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