Welcome to BlueNet

The University of Tasmania, as lead institute of a consortium, has been granted $3.5 milllon from the Australian Government to establish BlueNet - the Australian Marine Science Data Network. Funding for the project has been provided through the Department of Education, Science and Training's (DEST's) Backing Australia's Ability program through the Systemic Infrastructure Initiative. The project aims to provide a virtual data centre to support long term curation and management of data for Australia's marine science researchers. BlueNet will link vast data repositories and marine resources that currently reside in academic and government institutions both in Australia and overseas. It is an extension of the nation's first on-line, virtual facility - the Australian Ocean Data Centre Joint Facility (AODCJF).

To find out more information about BlueNet, please go to the About page.

Submitting Data to BlueNet

BlueNet is now open for business! If you wish to submit data to BlueNet or would like more information, contact one of our university-based Data Facilitators or the BlueNet Project Office.

The BlueNet Metadata Entry and Search Tool (MEST)

The BlueNet MEST, which is the primary method of access to metadata records and data in BlueNet, is now available for both searching for metadata as well as creating new metadata records. More information and a link to the MEST can be obtained by clicking here.