The Coorong Environmental Trust is in the process of designing and resourcing a network of floating monitoring stations for the Coorong and will be working to establish ongoing community monitoring of all aspects of Lakes and Coorong ecological health through each of the member organisations, however the following links will provide you with access to existing data.
Water Connect
South Australian Government water quality monitoring for the state, including near coastal, groundwater, aquatic ecosystem, barrage flows and surface water quality data.
Murray Darling Basin Authority
Current water flow data from across the Murray Darling Basin is available.
NatureMaps
The South Australian Government's Environ Data SA is made available for public use via NatureMaps. This includes soils data, Coast and Marine habitat mapping, native vegetation mapping, biosurvey data and all sorts of other really interesting things. It is spatially searchable for just the areas of interest to you or an advanced search can be done for locations or keywords.
Atlas of Living Australia
A 'super-database' every museum, herbarium, government, university and community record (including scanned historic reports) of Australian biota that the organisation has managed collect. It is a truly awe-inspiring collection of almost 114 Billion data points, searchable by location or by data supplier.
BioCollect
This portal has been developed by the Atlas of Living Australia to assist users in collecting field data for their own projects as well as to enable new biodiversity data to be easily copied into the ALA where it can be available for others to use in research, policy and management. The Coorong Environmental Trust will be working with BioCollect to put our current database of 43,000 Coorong bird observations online and when that happens we will share the link here, however one of our member organisations (Delta Environmental Consulting) has already put a page together with almost 6,000 of their own records (including some Coorong ones).
Our Coorong, Our Coast Project
The Our Coorong, Our Coast Project, run by the Limestone Coast Landscape Board, conducts bird monitoring (which is logged on the Birds Australia BirdData portal https://birdata.birdlife.org.au/ ) prepares site management plans and has a range of ongoing local community and government initiatives, described on their project page.
Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder
Results of CEWH monitoring, evaluation and research is available.
SA Water
SA Water have daily flow and salinity reports for the River Murray available.
South Australian EPA
The SA EPA does annual aquatic ecosystem monitoring and reporting. The nearshore marine environment adjacent the Coorong, along with many of the creeks and streams flowing into the Lakes and Coorong Ramsar site, are included in the EPA's monitoring program.
The University of Adelaide & the Department for Environment and Water
The University of Adelaide and the Department for Environment and Water ongoing water quality grab-sample monitoring of the Lakes and Coorong is available via occasional water quality synthesis reports (alongside the scientific reports arising from the Healthy Coorong, Healthy Basin Program via the Goyder Institute Technical Reports series.
GeoScience Australia
GeoScience Australia have placed a large number of government agency spatial layers and regular satellite imagery up in a single portal.
If you have looked through all these resources and still can't find the information you are after, feel free to email us at info@coorongtrust.com.au and we will try to assist you.