Dataset

IMOS - National Mooring Network - National Reference Station (NRS) Rottnest Island Mooring

The NRS Rottnest Island Mooring (IMOS platform code: NRSROT) is one of a series of national reference stations designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in Australian coastal ocean waters. The mooring is located at Latitude:-32, Longitude: 115.416. Physical sampling will be undertaken at each of the reference stations on a monthly basis. The physical samples will be analysed for nutrients, plankton species, both visibly and genetically, and pCO2. Biological sampling will greatly improve Australia's capability to meet its obligations for ecosystem based management and allow many researchers the opportunity to investigate possible long term changes in ecology that are likely to be linked to climate variability and wide scale validation of remotely sensed (satellite) observations of plant biomass.

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Processed instrument data
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Biogeochemical water sampling data
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Access to historical dataset for Rottnest Island National Reference Station (1951 to 2002)
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Website of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
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Website of the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN)
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Additional Information

Field	Value
Published (Metadata Record)	02/03/2026
Last updated	03/03/2026
Organisation	Australian Federal Government
License	License Not Specified
Update Frequency	Unknown