BGS Metadata Catalogue
2003 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA4 Analysis of macroinvertebrate samples from the Northern Triangle area (north UKCS)
This report is a contribution to the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA4) conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) and it presents results from the macrofaunal analysis of sixty-three macrobenthos samples. The samples were from a range of depths in the SEA4 Northern Triangle area, at the northernmost extent of British waters. Most of the samples were rich in terms of numbers of taxa and individuals and all major benthic invertebrate phyla were represented in the survey. The fauna included several taxa that are likely to be undescribed species and many have been recorded by nominal names. Several groups have also been left at higher taxonomic levels. Data analysis was not included for this part of the project. A preliminary literature list for deep-sea taxonomy was compiled for the project and provided in the report. A spreadsheet of data is also available.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2003-03-18
- Citation identifier
- British Geological Survey / BGS_SEA_37
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey (BGS)
Paul Henni
Custodian Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
Originator
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Resource format
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Name Version Delimited
Documents
- Keywords
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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Species distribution
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SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
- Use limitation
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The SEAs data were produced as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme; Crown Copyright, all rights reserved. The DECC SEA must be acknowledged in any maps or publications that make use of the data. All the data files are freely available to the public. The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal provides free access to available data and reports which have been produced through the SEA process. The site is run and managed by BGS on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Many files can be downloaded directly from this website. Those that are too large to download can be ordered via the website for postal delivery from BGS. BGS (NERC) has been contracted by DECC to publish SEA datasets on its behalf. All intellectual property rights (including , without limitation, copyrights, database rights and all other rights which subsist or may at any time in the future subsist in the Dataset(s)) in the Dataset(s) ('Intellectual Property Rights') are owned by DECC (formerly the Department of Trade and Industry, and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform). BGS has been authorised by DECC to use SEA datasets for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit basis'. BGS has been authorised by DECC to pass on SEA datasets to third parties so that they can use them for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit' basis.
- Access constraints
- Intellectual property rights
- Distance
- 5 m
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
- Geoscientific information
- Oceans
- Title
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SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer
- Date (Revision)
- 2006-01-01
- Code
- North Atlantic Ocean
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- Begin date
- 2002-07-24
- End date
- 2002-08-22
- Supplemental Information
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/sea/home.html Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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Samples were taken by a variety of methods (mostly day grabs or megacores) during summer 2002 from S/V Kommandor Jack by Geotek as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme. ERT (Scotland) Ltd. Were responsible for the initial storage of the SEA4 samples at their Edinburgh laboratory. Samples were forwarded for analysis by Unicomarine Ltd. The samples were sieved in the laboratory over a 0.5mm mesh and fauna and fragments were removed from the sediment. Laboratory sample processing was carried out according to Unicomarine standard operating procedures (Worsfold and Hall, 2002). Fragments of animals were extracted, including colonies of non-countable taxa. There were no specific instructions on which taxa were to be extracted so in-house policy was adopted. In general, all animal material was removed, though Foraminifera were extracted as representative examples only. Animals were transferred to 70% industrial methylated spirits (IMS), except bryozoa, which were dried. Taxa were tentatively separated into major groups at the extraction stage.
Metadata
- File identifier
- aba64100-c11b-4de3-e044-0003ba6f30bd XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2011-08-30
- Metadata standard name
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MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
- Metadata standard version
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Version 2.3.5
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey (BGS)
Mary Mowat
Point of contact
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