OCEAN INFORMATION

YOU CAN HELP

If you are regularly out and about along any part of the Australian coastline, please record your observations for the development of the important Marine Timelines database. If you are walking a beach or inlet, looking around rock pools, snorkeling close to a reef or out in a boat, your observations will be invaluable to us in developing calendars for all Australian coastal bio-regions

Just fill in the weekly Coastal Calendar Record form (see examples below of typical entries) and at the end of the month send any printed records into the Timelines Centre, RMB 6297, Burns Rd, Glenburn, Victoria, 3717 or email Alan on alan_reid@telstra.easymail.com.au

Non-marine information can also be sent to the Timelines Centre or the email site.

Date	Weather	Place	Observation
	Include time, temperature, wind force and direction and any cloud cover	Note distance & direction from nearest town and record habitat type	Record the main species & number involved, the activity and any associated species
2/01/01	SE wind, fine 23 degrees	Honeysuckle Reef, Shoreham	Sea hares laying eggs in rockpools
4/01/01	Cool, fine 16 degrees, 9pm.	Jacks Beach, Crib Point	Swarms of march flies on beach
10/1/01	SW wind force, overcast 18 degrees, 10am	Somers Beach, Somers	Hundreds of cunjevoi washed up on the shore

Coastal Calender

Environmental Events Record