Field Manuals for Marine Sampling to Monitor Australian Waters: Version 3.0 – fact sheet

Overview

This flyer is to promote Version 3 of the Field Manuals for Marine Sampling to Monitor Australian Waters to research practitioners and research users. The new version contains three new practices: for microplastics, benthic observation survey system and knowledge, attitude and practice. Ocean best practices are crucial to collaboration, efficiency, and data reliability in marine research and management. We have developed a suite of best practices to ensure that marine data collected at different times and places across Australia are comparable. These field manuals are endorsed by researchers, managers, and technicians from multiple agencies with a variety of experience and subject-matter expertise. Since Version 1 was released in 2018 there has been strong uptake across diverse sectors including applied science, offshore industry, and academic research. The Marine Sampling Field Manuals for Monitoring Australia’s Marine Waters support the national scale monitoring and observing of Australia’s marine environment. They provide consistent, defensible methods to ensure that the data you collect can be compared with other regional and national collections. This will increase your data’s relevance to others and offer expanding national datasets to you.