Chlorophyll sampling in the coastal waters of south eastern Tasmania

Subsurface Currents Surface Currents Phytoplankton biomass and diversity Ocean colour

Chlorophyll a concentration is widely used as a proxy to describe trends in phytoplankton biomass over spatial and temporal scales. The concentration of chlorophyll a in Storm Bay showed surprisingly little variation across the seasons. There was a gradient in concentration from site 1 to site 3, where chlorophyll a decreased slightly. It was highest and most variable at the inshore sites 1 and 9, and lowest at site 3, furthest out in the bay. There was no clear annually recurrent seasonal bloom, although data suggests higher values in spring and autumn (see later time series).

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Swadling, K. M., Eriksen, R. S., Beard, J. M., & Crawford, C. (2017). Salmon sub-program: Marine currents, nutrients and plankton in the coastal waters of south…

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Additional information

Temporal extent	2009-11-01 – 2015-04-30
Date (creation)	2018-06-25
Status	completed
Update frequency	notPlanned
Metadata language	en
License	The data described in this record are the intellectual property of the University of Tasmania through the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. Please contact Kerrie Swadling (Principal Investigator) if you wish to use the data.
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-05
Created	2026-11-05
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