Marine Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (MALSF) Groundtruthing Survey 2009_8_MEPF: MALSF Humber Regional Environmental Characterisation Project: Southern North Sea (20/Apr/2009 to 26/May/2009)
The Humber Regional Environmental Characterisation (REC) surveys are funded through the marine Environment Protection Fund of the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (MALSF). The aims of the surveys are to acquire marine geophysical and sample data, to enable broad scale characterisation of the seabed habitat, associated biological communities and potential historic environmental assets within the Humber REC region. From the interpretation of the geophysical data stations for 20 vibrocore, 90 clam shell grab, 90 Hamon grab, 90 seabed photo 2 anchor dredge and 30 scientific trawls were selected. The survey was conducted over 2 phases (1-Geotechnical and Environmental): Leg 1 (Geotechnical) – to acquire 90 large-volume (Clamshell) grab samples and 20 sediment vibrocore samples to ground-truth the geophysical data and contribute to overall environmental interpretation. In addition, these data will describe seabed geology and prehistoric environmental assets including archaeological features and deposits of archaeological potential. Leg 2 (Environmental) – to acquire seabed imagery (video and still photography) and grab samples at 90 locations and 30 trawl samples; these data to ground-truth the geophysical data and contribute to overall interpretation. These data will also support the interpretation and delineation of infaunal and epifaunal communities. Good progress was made with the sampling field work and further vibrocore, Hamon grab and seabed photograph sites were selected and most of these were also occupied. The selection of these sites was undertaken by: the University of Birmingham Archaeology Department (vibrocores), British Geological Survey (clam shell grabs) and Marine Ecological Survey (Hamon grabs, camera stations and trawls). The marine sampling operations undertaken in the Humber REC area aboard the vessel Gardline Sea Profiler between 20th April 2009 and 26th May 2009, the rationale behind the surveys and the post-cruise processing results of the biological, sediment and shallow sub-seabed (vibrocore) data acquired. The survey area lies off the east coast of England, in the southern part of the North Sea, offshore the Humber Estuary, (Figure 1). It covers an area of approximately 11,000 km2. It extends eastward from the coast almost to the UK Median Line.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2009-05-26
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- British Geological Survey / BGS_CMD_REF612
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey (BGS)
Custodian Marine Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund
Originator
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- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages (L131)
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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P021)
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- Access constraints
- No restrictions, a copyright acknowledgement is required and permission from any third party for the release of the data has been obtained. Inclusion of any third party data will determine the copyright acknowledgement that needs to be made.
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
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unrestricted use, copyright acknowledgement - Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced MALSF materials "Contains Marine Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (MALSF) materials ©Crown Copyright [year]"
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- Grid
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- 5 5 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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Spurn
BGS Gazetteer 2024-09-07 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Indefatigable
BGS Gazetteer 2024-09-07 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Southern North Sea
Charting Progress 2: Regional Sea Boundaries 2009-06-18 creation
- Geographic identifier
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NORTH SEA
The SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer: Sub-Ocean Category 1954-01-01 creation
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- Begin date
- 2009-04-20
- End date
- 2009-05-26
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OGP
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urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
www.epsg.org 2005 revision
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey (BGS)
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Protocol Linkage Name HTTP
http://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex_offshore/home.html?cruise=2009/8_MEPF BGS Offshore Geoindex
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
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- No
- Statement
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Sample equipment types used included: Corer: Vibrocorer, Grab: Amon or Hamon and Grab: Hydraulic. Gardline was contracted to undertake the survey on behalf of Marine Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund. For more detailed information on the acquisition equipment and data collection techniques, operational standards, data processing methods and quality control procedures used on this survey see the Report of Survey/Cruise Report and associated documentation where available. The information available may vary depending on the age of the survey. Data are checked and loaded to the BGS Coastal and Marine data management system following BGS marine data management procedures.
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- aea03887-f879-3ca1-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
- Metadata language
- English
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- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-09-07
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MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
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Version 2.3.5
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey (BGS)
Point of contact