IMOS - AUV SIRIUS CAMPAIGN: WESTERN AUSTRALIA, APRIL 2010

温带西澳大利亚州（Kendrick、Babcock、Smale）：2010年4月，与西澳大利亚大学和澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织合作进行了一次航行，记录西澳大利亚沿海温带珊瑚礁的底栖生物组合。这次航行是国际海洋观测系统自动潜水器设施为期三年的系列航行中的第一次，目的是沿澳大利亚东部和西部海岸沿着建立一个海底生境时间序列。预期这些调查将至少在今后两年每年重复进行。调查是在罗特内斯特岛、朱里恩湾和阿布罗略斯群岛附近进行的。在海洋保护区内外的三个深度（15米、25米、40米）的每个位置对六个地点进行了调查，每个地点有三个25米x25米的全照片覆盖象限。现场位置针对海带床，由科学党提供。每个场地内各个象限的位置是根据测深仪或测深仪信息现场确定的。巡航期间进行的其他科学作业包括CTD铸件、配备流浪汉记录仪的系泊装置部署和SCUBA。

Temperate WA (Kendrick, Babcock, Smale): A cruise was undertaken in collaboration with the University of Western Australian and CSIRO to document benthic assemblages on temperate reefs off the coast of Western Australia in April, 2010. This cruise was the first in a 3 year series of IMOS AUV Facility cruises intended to establish a benthic habitat timeseries along the Eastern and Western coasts of Australia. The expectation is that these surveys will be repeated annually for at least the next two years. Surveys were conducted off Rottnest Island, Jurien Bay, and the Abrolhos Islands. Six sites were surveyed at each location spanning three depths (15 m, 25 m, 40 m), both inside and outside MPAs, with three 25 m x 25 m full photo coverage quadrants devoted to each site. Site locations targeted kelp beds and were provided by the science party. The locations of individual quadrants within each site were decided on‐site, based on bathymetric or depth sounder information. Additional scientific operations carried out during the cruise consisted of CTD casts, HOBO logger equipped moorings deployments, and SCUBA.