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2002 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2 Environmental Sampling survey, North Sea, May and June 2001 Macrofaunal data report for the South Fladen, North Sea pockmark study area ERT report 637 R002

This report presents all data relevant to the macrofaunal analysis from South Fladen Pockmark study area of the North Sea as part of the Department of Trade and Industry's (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2 conducted in May (Phase I) and June 2001 (Phase II). The aim of the survey was to document the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of a range of offshore sandbanks and pockmarks (more than 12 km from the coast) to assess their current environmental status, variability and the relative importance of the fauna occurring within these habitats. Excel files of the data are also available.

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Date (Publication)
2002-01-01
Identifier
British Geological Survey / BGS_SEA_10
Custodian
  British Geological Survey (BGS) - Paul Henni
Murchison House, West Mains Road , Edinburgh , EH9 3LA , UK
+44 (0)131 667 1000
Originator
  Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
Admiralty Way , London , SW1A 2HD , UK
+44 0300 060 4000
+44 (0) 1823 284077
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
Name
Documents
Keywords
  • NDGO0001
SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
  • Fauna abundance per unit area of the bed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
  • Habitats and biotopes
  • 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
intellectualPropertyRights Intellectual property rights
Distance
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Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
  • Oceans
Date (Revision)
2006-01-01
Unique resource identifier
North Sea
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Begin date
2001-05-01
End date
2001-06-01
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
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal

The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal provides free access to available data and reports which have been produced through the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change 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.

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dataset Dataset
Statement
The sampling strategy of the identified sandbanks was developed by Hartley Anderson Ltd (HAL - contracted as principal scientists). Sampling operations were conducted from the R/ V Kommandor Jack with overall direction of field operations undertaken by HAL as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme. Samples for quantitative macrofaunal analysis and a separate sample for chemical and physical analysis were retrieved using either a box corer or a van Veen grab. ERT (Scotland) Ltd (ERTSL) was contracted by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) via Geotek Ltd (contracting authority's representative)/HAL to retrieve the seabed samples as well as processing, storage and chain-of-custody of the samples prior to initiation of the analysis programme by ERTSL.
File identifier
aba64100-c101-4de3-e044-0003ba6f30bd XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2011-08-30
Metadata standard name
MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
Metadata standard version
Version 2.3.5
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey (BGS) - Mary Mowat
+44 (0)131 667 1000
+44 (0)131 668 4140
 
 

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