Information and Data Centre (IDC)

The Information and Data Centre (IDC) at CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Australia manages most of the Oceans and Atmosphere vessel-collected (ship) data collected over the past 30 years, as well as such related datasets as those collected with moored instrument arrays (moorings) in the Australasian region – see the Overview tab of the Data Trawler for the spatial coverage of data currently held.

Marlin FAQs and Help

What is the Marlin Catalogue? CSIRO O&A data collections are described in metadata records which are held in our metadata […]

Web Development

The Information and Data Centre (IDC) uses a variety of tools and software to develop applications for the distribution of […]

Ocean circulation

Animations and diagrams of ocean circulation globally, in the Southern Ocean and in the Australian region.

Marine National Facility Datasets

The Data Centre curates datasets collected by the Marine National Facility (MNF) research vessels RV Franklin (1985 to 2002), RV […]

Data Management

Managing data A range of data management systems and tools which include Data Warehouse, accessed via a custom Data Trawler […]

Database support

The Data Centre provides database administrator support for Oracle enterprise level databases at various sites within Oceans and Atmosphere, Food […]

Biological Resources

The CSIRO NCMI Information and Data Centre hosts numerous biological datasets. Our main sources of biological data are the surveys […]