State of Environment
Indicator 86 - Quarry Operations at Australian Antarctic Stations
Description
- Indicator Definition
- This indicator records the amount rock extracted and crushed for
infrastructure needs at Casey, Davis and Mawson stations. Included are some
details of the blast burden and pattern.
Responsible organisation
Australian Antarctic Division ( Australia )
Custodians
No custodians.
Theme area
Human Settlements
Indicator type
Pressure
Criteria the indicator satisfies
The following 13 out of 15 criteria
| 1. | Serve as a robust indicator of environmental change |
| 2. | Reflect a fundamental or highly-valued aspect of the environment or an important environmental issue |
| 3. | Be either national in scope or applicable to regional environmental issues of national significance |
| 4. | Provide an early warning of potential problems |
| 5. | Be capable of being monitored to provide statistically verifiable and reproducible data that shows trends over time and, preferably, apply to a broad range of environmental regions |
| 6. | Be scientifically credible |
| 7. | Be easy to understand |
| 8. | Be monitored with relative ease |
| 9. | Be cost-effective |
| 10. | Have relevance to policy and management needs |
| 11. | Contribute to monitoring of progress towards implementing commitments in nationally important environmental policies |
| 13. | Contribute to the fulfillment of reporting obligations under international agreements |
| 14. | Where possible and appropriate, use existing commercial and managerial indicators |
Date input
Daily measurements
Monitoring location
Any Named places
Geographic coverage
- Latitude (-66.2818 to -66.2818)
Longitude (110.5276 to 110.5276)
- Latitude (-67.6026 to -67.6026)
Longitude (62.8738 to 62.8738)
- Latitude (-68.5766 to -68.5766)
Longitude (77.9673 to 77.9673)
- Rationale For Indicator Selection
- Concerns have been raised over time by a number of station personnel about
environmental impacts of quarry operations at Australian Antarctic Stations as
well as impacts on local breeding populations of snow and wilson's storm
petrels. Documenting quarry operations is therefore of interest to ensure
that agreed quarry boundaries are adhered to along with regulatory non-blast
periods to avoid disturbance to petrels during their incubation period.
- Design and Strategy For Indicator Monitoring Program
- Spatial Scale: Australian Antarctic stations: Casey (lat 66¿ 16' 54.5" S,
long 110¿ 31' 39.4" E), Davis (lat 68¿ 34' 35.8" S, long 77¿ 58' 02.6" E) and
Mawson (lat 67¿ 36' 09.7" S, long 62¿ 52' 25.7" E).
Frequency: Yearly
Measurement Technique: Visual
- Research Issues
- Previously, documentation has rarely been kept and communication of
responsibility has been patchy. Anecdotal reports of deficiencies in past
management of quarries and non-conformance to the AAD's policies stated in
"Quarrying in Antarctica, an environmental policy statement" (1996) has
prompted a new effort to gather data to ensure the AAD is meeting
environmental and legislative obligations and is satisfying public
expectations for sound environmental management of Australian activities in
Antarctica.
Data
Temporal range of the available data, as described by the metadata record, is from
01-Nov-2005
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- Timespan
- 4-December-2004 to 16-February-2013
- Number of data points
- 262
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- Hide graphs for Casey
Casey: Number of quarry blasts
Casey: Amount of uncrushed rubble removed
Casey: Number of blast holes drilled
Casey: Hours of crusher operation
Casey: Hours of Drilling Operation
- View graphs for Davis
Davis: Number of quarry blasts
Davis: Amount of uncrushed rubble removed
Davis: Number of blast holes drilled
Davis: Hours of crusher operation
Davis: Hours of Drilling Operation
Data quality, interpretation and analysis of indicator data
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- All data are recorded by the Shot Firer in cooperation with the Engineering Services Supervisor and Station Leader. Cubic metres of uncrushed rock removed are calculated by visual inspection and how many loader buckets are produced.
- The hours of crusher operation need to be analysed to determine if the vibration and noise contribute to disturbance of snow and Wilson''s storm petrels.
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Data usage constraints
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This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=SOE_quarry_operations when using these data.
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Data access constraints
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Data arising from this project are available from the state of the environment indicator URL given below.
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Custodian evaluation
There is no evaluation by the custodian.
Related resources
Parameters
The properties link can be used to view details of the parameters measured for this indicator.
| Parameter Name |
Unit of measure |
Properties |
| Amount of uncrushed rubble removed |
cubic metres |
Properties |
| Hours of crusher operation |
hours |
Properties |
| Hours of Drilling Operation |
hours |
Properties |
| Number of blast holes drilled |
|
Properties |
| Number of quarry blasts |
|
Properties |
The following parameters and/or sensor notes are from the metadata record.
Parameters
EARTH SCIENCE
> ATMOSPHERE
> ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
> SURFACE TEMPERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE
> BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION
> ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES
> BIRDS
EARTH SCIENCE
> HUMAN DIMENSIONS
> ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
> ACID DEPOSITION
EARTH SCIENCE
> HUMAN DIMENSIONS
> INFRASTRUCTURE
> BUILDINGS
EARTH SCIENCE
> SOLID EARTH
> EARTH GASES/LIQUIDS
Sensors
AWS
TEMPERATURE SENSORS
Thermometers
Related URLs
http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=SOE_quarry_operations
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/portal/download_file.cfm?file_id=1272
Download page for Australian Antarctic Data Centre