The NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub has developed a suite of field manuals to describe a nationally consistent and defensible approach to marine data acquisition. With over 70 contributors from 30 agencies, the field manuals include information on marine survey design, pre-survey planning, gear deployment and retrieval, and data management.

We encourage all users (or potential users) to give feedback and suggestions for future versions and manuals via our online questionnaire here.

The field manuals can be downloaded in their entirety or as individual chapters.