acf464dc-be75-41b8-9688-f2ba4037ef53 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:15:02 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Hydrocarbon and microbial community data from contaminated beaches in Salamina and the Athens Riviera following the Agia Zoni II Oil Spill (2017-2018) 2019-09-10 publication 2019-07-11 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/acf464dc-be75-41b8-9688-f2ba4037ef53 10.5285/acf464dc-be75-41b8-9688-f2ba4037ef53 doi: Thomas, G.E., Campo, P., Clark, D.R., Coulon, F., Gregson, B.H., Miliou, A., Cameron, T.C., Hepburn, L.J., Whitby, C., McGenity, T.J., McKew, B.A. (2019). Hydrocarbon and microbial community data from contaminated beaches in Salamina and the Athens Riviera following the Agia Zoni II Oil Spill (2017-2018). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/acf464dc-be75-41b8-9688-f2ba4037ef53 These data were collected from surface sediments (0-5 cm) at sites located along the Athens Riviera and Salamina coastline, Greece. The sediments came from both oil-contaminated (via Agia Zoni II oil-spill) and uncontaminated sites and were first collected between September 2017 and April 2018. For sediments taken at each site, data includes hydrocarbon concentrations (alkanes and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs)), absolute microbial abundance (by Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR)) of Bacteria, Archaea, and Fungi, and 16S rRNA amplicon libraries of Bacteria and Archaea. Additionally, nutrient concentrations (ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, silicate, and phosphate) were measured from seawater samples taken at the same sites. This study was conducted by the University of Essex, in partnerships with Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation and Cranfield University, and funded by the National Environmental Research Council and EnvEast DTP. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/acf464dc-be75-41b8-9688-f2ba4037ef53 McKew, B. University of Essex bamcke@essex.ac.uk pointOfContact Thomas, G.E. University of Essex gthomab@essex.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3883-177X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Campo, P. Cranfield University P.Campo-Moreno@cranfield.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8569-9620 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Clark, D.R. University of Essex dclarkb@essex.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2306-0220 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Coulon, F. Cranfield University f.coulon@cranfield.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4384-3222 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Gregson, B.H. University of Essex bgregs@essex.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8337-227X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Miliou, A. Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation a.miliou@archipelago.gr author Cameron, T.C. University of Essex tcameron@essex.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5875-1494 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Hepburn, L.J. University of Essex l.hepburn@essex.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5109-7127 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Whitby, C. University of Essex cwhitby@essex.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1998-2748 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author McGenity, T.J. University of Essex tjmcgen@essex.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1497-8822 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author McKew, B.A. University of Essex bamcke@essex.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5607-6619 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Greece Salamina GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Environmental risk Environmental survey Hydrology Pollution Water quality oil spill oil pollution hydrocarbons environmental biology remediation sediments 16S rRNA coastal otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © University of Essex otherRestrictions © Natural Environment Research Council otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Thomas, G.E., Campo, P., Clark, D.R., Coulon, F., Gregson, B.H., Miliou, A., Cameron, T.C., Hepburn, L.J., Whitby, C., McGenity, T.J., McKew, B.A. (2019). Hydrocarbon and microbial community data from contaminated beaches in Salamina and the Athens Riviera following the Agia Zoni II Oil Spill (2017-2018). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/acf464dc-be75-41b8-9688-f2ba4037ef53 textTable 50 English utf8 environment 2017-09-01 2018-04-30 23.298 23.774 37.842 38.075 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/acf464dc-be75-41b8-9688-f2ba4037ef53 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/acf464dc-be75-41b8-9688-f2ba4037ef53.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Samples were collected, in triplicate, in sterile 100 ml containers from the coastal surface (0 - 5 cm) sediments. To attain a comprehensive sample of the oil spill, samples were taken from control (non-oil contaminated) and contaminated (oil contaminated) sites along the Athens Riviera and Salamina Island coast, Greece. Samples were initially collected from the Athens Riviera immediately (September 2017) after the oil spill occurred. Subsequently, samples were collected from both Athens and Salamina in the following months, although there are some missing data points. The sampling schedule concluded in April 2018.