Robson Creek Rainforest Water Chemistry Data 2013
Measured water quality variables are reported for surface water from a permanent sampling site on Robson Creek, Far North Queensland. The variables include major cations and anions, trace heavy metals, solids (suspended and total) inorganic and organic nitrogen and phosphorus.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2013-11-26
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-04-13
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-10
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Publisher
Author
James Cook University - Liddell, Michael (Associate Professor)
1 James Cook Drive, Bebegu Yumba campus, 4811, Douglas, Australia
Bebegu Yumba campus
Douglas
4811
Australia
Co-author
James Cook University - Bird, Michael (Professor)
1 James Cook Drive, Bebegu Yumba campus, 4811, Douglas, Australia
Bebegu Yumba campus
Douglas
4811
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- This data is sampled to monitor the baseline water quality of an upper catchment stream in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Rainforests, specifically, a highland location in the Lamb Range, Atherton Tablelands. Data can be used to evaluate changes in water quality as a result of climate change and other disturbance factors in this relatively pristine environment.
- Credit
- We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
- Credit
- This project was funded by the Queensland Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (DEEDI) and Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIISRTE).
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
James Cook University - Liddell, Michael (Associate Professor)
1 James Cook Drive, Bebegu Yumba campus, 4811, Douglas, Australia
1 James Cook Drive
Bebegu Yumba campus
Douglas
4811
Australia
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Inland waters
Extent
- Description
- The Robson Creek 25-ha rainforest site is located in the Danbulla National Park within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area in the Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2013-11-26 2013-11-28
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Surface water
- Alkalinity
- Major Ions
- Water chemistry
- Nutrients
- Nitrogen
- Phosphorus
- Suspended solids
- Hardness
- Dissolved organic Carbon
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
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- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br />Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN. <br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
- Other constraints
- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
- Other constraints
- Please note: This data has been migrated “as is” from TERN’s SuperSite data portal. Minimal quality assessment has been applied to this data. Please contact the dataset authors for queries regarding the data
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Robson_water_chemistry_data_dictionary
Distribution Information
Distribution Information
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Grab samples were collected mid-stream, sub-surface directly under Robson Creek bridge. Unfiltered samples were collected directly into the appropriate sample container. Filtered samples were collected into a syringe and then filtered through 0.45 micron (Millipore Millex-HA 0.45) filters into the appropriate sample container. Test Parameter Sample container Alkalinity, EC, Cations, Cl, SO4, Nitrate, TDS, TSS: 500ml plastic TN, NOx, TKN, TP: 125ml plastic (Sulfuric acid) TOC: 40ml Amber vials (Sulfuric acid) Total Heavy Metals: 60ml plastic Once collected the samples were kept in a portable chiller on ice and then transferred to a fridge for overnight storage. The following day, samples were sent to Australian Laboratory Services (ALS) in Brisbane for analyses. For more detail on the water analysis, please see attached Robson_water_chemistry_methods.pdf
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/ff20cf65-cea0-4477-bd33-3760e27ec13c
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/ff20cf65-cea0-4477-bd33-3760e27ec13c
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-04-13T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-10T10:22:39.921226+00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
- Title
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
- Date (published)
- 2021
- Edition
- 1.0
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