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2004 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA5 Braer macrofauna data report, ERT 1109 (North Sea)

This report is a contribution to the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA5) conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change). Macrofuanal analysis was undertaken on 61 seabed samples from 13 locations to the southwest of Shetland that were contaminated by oil from the Braer tanker spill. The data report presents the resulting species list and abundance data, together with biomass data and the size measurements of selected taxa.

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Date (Publication)
2004-01-01
Citation identifier
British Geological Survey / BGS_SEA_55
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
  • Zooplankton and zoobenthos morphological parameters

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
  • Geoscientific information
  • Oceans
Title

SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer

Date (Revision)
2006-01-01
Code
North Sea
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Begin date
2003-09-01
End date
2003-09-01
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

    The samples were collected in September 2003 using a Day grab and multicorer as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme. ERT (Scotland) Ltd (ERT) were commissioned by Geotek Ltd to undertake macrofaunal analysis of the samples. All samples were washed over a 0.5 mm meash sieve and preserved in ca 4% formaldehyde. All work carried out followed ERT's ISO 9001:2000 quality management system. To ensure quality was maintained throughout all of the laboratory process all work underwent continuous checking, with a minimum of 10% of all samples fully checked during the sorting procedure and additional random checks were also made during the process.

    Metadata

    File identifier
    aba64100-c12b-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
     
     

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