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2003 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA4 Technical report - Benthic ecology (Faroe Shetland Channel)

This report is a contribution to the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA4) conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) . The development of the deep-water oil industry to the west of Shetland led to extensive regional surveys of the seafloor environment, so that the deep-water benthos of the SEA4 area are now at least as well known as in any other deep-water area worldwide. Extensive surveys of the Faeroe-Shetland Channel, funded by the Atlantic Frontier Environmental Network and by the Department of Trade and Industry, took place between 1996 and 2002. This report provides an overview of these surveys. The ecology of the benthos in the SEA4 area is strongly influenced by the hydrography of the region, in particular the complex temperature regime, and by the nature of the seabed sediments. Additional files (xls, doc, cdr) are also available.

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Date (Publication)
2003-01-01
Identifier
British Geological Survey / BGS_SEA_42
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
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Documents
Keywords
  • NDGO0001
SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
  • Fauna abundance per unit area of the bed
  • Habitat characterisation
  • Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • 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.
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intellectualPropertyRights Intellectual property rights
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Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
  • Oceans
Date (Revision)
2006-01-01
Unique resource identifier
North Atlantic Ocean
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2003-01-01
End date
2003-01-01
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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This report was compiled by Southampton Oceanography Centre as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme and provides an overview of surveys of the Faeroe-Shetland Channel, funded by the Atlantic Frontier Environmental Network and by the Department of Trade and Industry which took place between 1996 and 2002. In 1996 the Atlantic Frontier Environmental Network (AFEN) commissioned a largescale regional survey of the West of Shetland seabed environment (AFEN, 2000). The practical conduct of the survey drew on modern technology and techniques for seabed survey (e.g. Sidescan sonar), sampling (e.g. Megacorer) and visualisation (e.g. WASP, seabed photography). These seabed survey tools were operated in an integrated fashion, the sidescan sonar mapping guiding the seabed sampling and visualisation which in turn fed back ground-truthing data for the improved interpretation of the sidescan sonar data. In 1998 AFEN commissioned a further survey, including areas north and west of Shetland and areas in the Rockall Trough. The general concept and approach of the AFEN surveys was then taken forward by the DTI with a survey of the Wyville Thomson Ridge and central axis of the Faroe-Shetland Channel in 1999. The DTI surveys continued with work during 2000 and the completion of SEA4 field work with the 2002 survey to the north of Shetland.
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aba64100-c11f-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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