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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.

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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
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maintenance and update frequency
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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
Access constraints
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no limitations
Other constraints
The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.
Use constraints
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Other constraints
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.
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

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Begin date
2013-11-04
End date
2017-04-03

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Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
OnLine resource
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item109749
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dataset Dataset
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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.
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6b495698-1e09-33d4-e054-002128a47908 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-07-13
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607318
 
 

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