Date (Publication)

2003-01-01

Citation identifier

British Geological Survey / BGS_SEA_41

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey (BGS)	Paul Henni	offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk	Custodian
Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)		enquiries@decc.gsi.gov.uk	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency

Not planned

Resource format

Name	Version
Documents

Keywords

• NDGO0001

SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary

• Fauna abundance per unit area of the bed
• Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Species distribution

SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages

• crust
• sediment

Use limitation

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

• Biota
• Environment
• Oceans

Title

SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer

Date (Revision)

2006-01-01

Code

North Atlantic Ocean

Begin date

2003-01-01

End date

2003-01-01

Supplemental Information

http://www.offshore-sea.org.uk/site/index.php

Reference system identifier

OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Distribution format

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/sea/home.html	Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

Report published by Scottish Association for Marine Science as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme. The West of Shetland transect was initially sampled in 1996 as part of the first Atlantic Frontier Environmental Network (AFEN) cruise (CD 101C). The overall AFEN survey design was based on a random stratified sampling regime, whereas station positions on the West of Shetland transect were pre-determined. The transect was included in the sampling regime in order not to miss any changes in the benthic population that may occur over a short depth gradient. The 15 transect stations are situated along a bathymetric gradient ranging in depth from ~150 m - 1000 m. Between 150 m and 700 m the stations are placed at depth intervals of 50 m, thereafter they are every 100 m. Samples were collected from these 15 stations in 1996, 1998 and 2000 using a day grab, box corer or megacorer. Statistical analyses were performed on these results.

Metadata

File identifier

aba64100-c11e-4de3-e044-0003ba6f30bd XML

Metadata language

English

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2011-08-30

Metadata standard name

MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard

Metadata standard version

Version 2.3.5

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey (BGS)	Mary Mowat	offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact