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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

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.25901/q3pd-dm90
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

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
  • 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
  • SURFACE WATER CHEMISTRY
  • WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY
  • STREAM
  • RIVERS/STREAMS
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Surface water hydrology
  • Hydrology
  • Surface water quality processes and contaminated sediment assessment
TERN Platform Vocabulary
  • Robson Creek Rainforest
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • alkalinity
  • Milligram per Litre
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Milligram per Litre
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 500 meters - < 1 km
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • one off
Keywords (Discipline)
  • 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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File description
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File type
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Linkage
https://w3id.org/tern/static/cc-by/88x31.png

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints
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
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
Robson_water_chemistry_data_dictionary

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
Robson_water_chemistry_data

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
Robson_water_chemistry_methods

Distribution Information

Distribution format

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
urn:uuid/ff20cf65-cea0-4477-bd33-3760e27ec13c

Title
TERN GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
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

Identifier

Code
10.5281/zenodo.5652221
Website
https://github.com/ternaustralia/TERN-ISO19115/releases/tag/v1.0

 
 

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Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Hydrology Surface water hydrology Surface water quality processes and contaminated sediment assessment
GCMD Science Keywords
RIVERS/STREAMS STREAM SURFACE WATER CHEMISTRY WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY

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