2006 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA7 Survey, August 2006. Biological, physical and chemical sampling survey report (Faroe Shetland Channel)
As part of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Strategic Environmental Assessment project for Area 7 (SEA7) and environmental survey was carried out from the RV Pelagia in the Faroe Shetland Channel. The aim of the survey was to acquire seabed samples for biological, physical and chemical analysis together with video and digital stills photography to ground truth the geophysical data and enable a general characterisation of seafloor habitats and community types present within the SEA7 area. This report provides a log of the field sampling work.
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http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/sea/home.html
name: Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal
description: 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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British Geological Survey
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urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
http://www.offshore-sea.org.uk/site/index.php
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2011-03-25
Geology
Habitats and biotopes
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2008-06-01
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2008-06-01
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2006-01-01
2006-07-29
2006-08-12
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2008-08-24
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Environment and Resource Technology (Scotland) Ltd were contracted by DTI via Geotek Lts to assist in retrieval and processing of the environmental samples as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme. Megacorer, gravity corer, box corer, van Veen grab were available for sampling. Almost all samples were collected for biological and physio-chemical analysis were taken using the box core. All biological samples were sieved using a 0.5 mm sieve.
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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