RATE Lo-RISE Marine Workstream (NERC Grant NE/L000202/1)

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.

Date (Creation): 2018-04-26

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607318

Originator

University of Strathclyde - Dr Kieran Tierney ( Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering )

James Weir Building , Glasgow , G1 1XJ ,

Principal investigator

Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) - Professor Gordon Cook

Rankine Avenue, Scottish Enterprise Technology Park , East Kilbride , G75 0QF ,

Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

Point of contact

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Americium
Radioactive isotopes
Sediments
Carbon isotopes
Plutonium
Biota
Caesium
NGDC Deposited Data

dataCentre

NGDC Deposited Data

Keywords

NERC_DDC

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Other constraints: Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

Firth Of Lorn [id=1290531]

Date (Revision): 2002

Geographic identifier

IRELAND OFFSHORE [id=98583]

Date (Creation): 1979

Geographic identifier

IRISH SEA [id=2001430]

Date (Revision): 2010

Geographic identifier

NORTH CHANNEL [id=174500]

Date (Creation): 1979

Geographic identifier

UK CONTINENTAL SHELF [id=121701]

Date (Creation): 1979

Begin date: 2013-11-04

End date: 2017-04-03

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MS Excel ()

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OnLine resource: http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item109749

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Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: 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.