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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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British Geological Survey : BGS_SEA_10
English
Biota
Environment
Oceans
SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary: GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0:
Geology
Habitats and biotopes
Species distribution
SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages:
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North Sea
publication: 2002-01-01
2001-05-01 - 2001-06-01
British Geological Survey (BGS)
Paul Henni
Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3LA, UK
tel: +44 (0)131 667 1000
email: offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk
Role: custodian
Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
Admiralty Way, London, SW1A 2HD, UK
tel: +44 0300 060 4000
email: enquiries@decc.gsi.gov.uk
Role: originator

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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.
Minimal Distance: 5 http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/gmxUom.xml#m

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British Geological Survey (BGS)
Mary Mowat
tel: +44 (0)131 667 1000
email: offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk
Role: point of contact
2011-08-30

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