IMOS - AUV SIRIUS, CAMPAIGN: Western Australia, APRIL 2012

温带西澳大利亚州（Kendrick、Babcock、Smale）：2012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，以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三次，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。这些调查每年重复进行，为期三年。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）对每个地点进行了调查，每个地点有三个25米x 25米的全覆盖照片象限。现场位置针对海带床，由科学党提供。每个地点内的各个象限的位置被选择用于重复2010年和2011年进行的调查。航行期间进行的其他科学活动包括CTD铸件。

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, 2012. This cruise was the third 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. These surveys have been repeated annually for three years. Surveys were conducted off Rottnest Island, Jurien Bay, and the Abrolhos Islands. 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 selected to repeat surveys conducted in 2010 and 2011. Additional scientific operations carried out during the cruise consisted of CTD casts.