Water quality monitoring, Halifax Bay, north Queensland: Dec 2012 - May 2013

Water quality information from Halifax Bay off Townsville was collected from the 20th of December 2012 to the 1st of May 2013 under a contract with GBRMPA.Data was collected from a YSI 6600V2 sonde that included salinity, water temperature, chlorophyll-a, and turbidity. The buoy also had a real time GPS. Data from the Cleveland Bay Automatic Weather Station was used to provide above water meteorological data such as air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure and rainfall.Data was collected in real time every 10 minutes and transmitted via nextG to AIMS and then into the Loggernet / AIMS systems.A dedicated web site was set up to allow access to the data to GBRMPA, weekly excel data digests were also delivered along with a final report on the project.
The data had two purposes. The first was general monitoring over the summer period of the conditions in Halifax Bay. The second was to look at potential run-off from the Yabulu nickel smelter, especially for caustic material from a holding pond.

本数据集采集了汤斯维尔附近哈利法克斯湾（Halifax Bay）的水质数据，采集时段为2012年12月20日至2013年5月1日，相关工作系根据与大堡礁海洋公园管理局（Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority，GBRMPA）签订的合同开展。数据采集采用YSI 6600V2多参数水质探头，可获取盐度、水温、叶绿素a（chlorophyll-a）及浊度四项参数；该浮标还搭载了实时全球定位系统（GPS）。本数据集同时调用克利夫兰湾自动气象站（Cleveland Bay Automatic Weather Station）的水上气象数据，涵盖气温、相对湿度、风速、风向、气压及降雨量等气象参数。数据以10分钟为间隔实时采集，并通过nextG传输至澳大利亚海洋科学研究所（Australian Institute of Marine Science，AIMS），随后汇入Loggernet与AIMS系统。项目组搭建了专属网站，供大堡礁海洋公园管理局（GBRMPA）调取数据；此外还定期交付每周Excel数据摘要，并最终提交项目整体研究报告。本数据集具备两大应用目标：其一用于夏季期间哈利法克斯湾海域环境的常规监测；其二用于评估亚布卢镍冶炼厂（Yabulu nickel smelter）可能产生的径流污染，尤其聚焦蓄液池流出的腐蚀性物料。