6b495698-1e09-33d4-e054-002128a47908 English dataset British Geological Survey +44 115 936 3100 Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-04-30 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607318 RATE Lo-RISE Marine Workstream (NERC Grant NE/L000202/1) 2018-04-26 creation http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607318 Data collected as part of the NERC funded Radioactivity and the Environment (RATE), Long-lived Radionuclides in the Surface Environment (Lo-RISE), research consortium.This data comes from the marine workstream group based at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) and the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS). The data consists of radionuclide measurements of environmental and biological samples including radiocarbon, caesium (137), americium (241) and plutonium (238, 239, 240).The data has been published in the following publications: Tierney et al., 2018. Modelling Marine Trophic Transfer of Radiocarbon (14C) from a Nuclear Facility. Ecosystem Modelling and Software 102, 138-154. Tierney et al., 2017. Nuclear Reprocessing-Related Radiocarbon (14C) Uptake into UK Marine Mammals. Marine Pollution Bulletin 124, 43-50. Muir et al., 2017. Ecosystem Uptake and Transfer of Sellafield-Derived Radiocarbon (14C). Part 1: The Irish Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin 114, 792-804. Tierney et al., 2017. Ecosystem Uptake and Transfer of Sellafield-Derived Radiocarbon (14C). Part 2: The West of Scotland. Marine Pollution Bulletin 115, 57-66 Tierney et al., 2016. Accumulation of Sellafield-derived 14C in Irish Sea and West of Scotland Intertidal Shells and Sediments. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 151, 321-327. Dr Kieran Tierney University of Strathclyde Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering James Weir Building Glasgow G1 1XJ not available originator Professor Gordon Cook Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) Rankine Avenue, Scottish Enterprise Technology Park East Kilbride G75 0QF not available principalInvestigator Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available pointOfContact notApplicable https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/6b495698-1e09-33d4-e054-002128a47908.png Geology GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Americium Radioactive isotopes Sediments Carbon isotopes Plutonium Biota Caesium BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences 2022 revision NGDC Deposited Data dataCentre NERC_DDC otherRestrictions no limitations The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. 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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]" English geoscientificInformation British Geological Survey Gazetteer: OS gazetteer 2002 revision Firth Of Lorn [id=1290531] British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation IRELAND OFFSHORE [id=98583] British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Gazetteer of sea areas 2010 revision IRISH SEA [id=2001430] British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation NORTH CHANNEL [id=174500] British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation UK CONTINENTAL SHELF [id=121701] -8.3500 -3.2000 54.0000 58.5000 2013-11-04 2017-04-03 Microsoft Excel witheld Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available distributor https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item109749 WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Data download dataset dataset INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology 2011 publication See the referenced specification false Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF false Marine samples were collected offshore from RV Prince Madog and RV Calanus via benthic trawling, Van Veen grab, gravity core, mega-corer, plankton nets, and water filtration. Intertidal samples collected by hand. Data was generated via accelerator mass spectrometry and gamma spectroscopy.