North Sea Interactive: a decision:-support tool to guide environmental monitoring by the oil and gas industry
The North Sea Interactive (NSI) project was an 8-month NERC funded project led by Heriot-Watt University, in collaboration with the BGS and NOC. The aim of the project was to develop a new decision-support tool that would translate existing marine environmental data into an interactive mapping product for the offshore oil and gas industry. The objectives of the project were achieved through the integration of the North Sea Benthos database (UKBenthos) with NERC's regional North Sea marine sediment data (BGS) and layers of modelled hydrodynamics (NOC). Aligning the biological, chemical, geological and hydrodynamic datasets in a single GIS product provides the oil industry and government regulators with a practical means of accessing this important archive of environmental data. The North Sea Benthos database (UKBenthos) was developed by Heriot-Watt University on behalf of UKOOA (now Oil and Gas UK) in the 1980s. Alongside macrobenthos, the database includes sediment properties, concentrations of aromatic compounds, total oil and metals. It currently includes data from 1975 to 2011 from 237 platforms and is continually being updated as new survey results are received by Oil and Gas UK.
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NERC grant NE/L008165/1. User guide documentation and UKBenthos database structure provided in the Documentation folder. BGS data is not provided within this dataset, this data is available through the BGS web map services as linked to in the User Manual.
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These data and working instructions have been prepared by Dr Kate Gormley (Heriot-Watt University) as part of the North Sea Interactive Project awarded to Heriot-Watt University's Centre for Marine Biodiversity and Biotechnology, the British Geological Survey and the National Oceanography Centre. The project team comprised Prof. J.Murray Roberts (Principal Investigator), Dr Kate Gormley, Dr Lea-Anne Henry (HWU), Ms Evelyn Lowndes (BGS), Mr Dave Long (BGS), Dr Dan Harries (HWU), Dr Jeff Polton (NOC) and Dr Paul Kingston (HWU). Datasets include: Bottom and surface salinity and temperature - C NOC POLCOMS (Shapefile) Holt et al. (2012). Multi©\decadal variability and trends in the temperature of the northwest European continental shelf: a model©\data synthesis. Progress in Oceanography, 106, 96©\117, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2012.08.001 Daily mean model temperature, salinity and elevation data for the northeast Atlantic are archived by BODC. Post processing by J Polton. Spring and neap bed stress ¨C NOC (Shapefile) Polton, J.A. (2014), Tidally induced mean flow over bathymetric features: A contemporary challenge for high©\resolution wide©\area models. Geophys. & Astrophys. Fluid Dyn., doi:10.1080/03091929.2014.952726 Benthos and Chemical ¨C UKBenthos database (Geodatabase, Shapefile, Excel) Adapted from UKBenthos Database, updated January 2014: UKBenthos Version 5 Jan 2014 [accessed: February 2014] http://www.oilandgasuk.co.uk/knowledgecentre/uk_benthos_database.cfm Base layers (Blocks, coastline, quadrants, fields) ¨C DECC (Geodatabase, Shapefile, Excel) DECC, Current UKCS data (updated 6 October 2014) [accessed: October 2014] Terms of Use http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open©\government©\licence/ Centre survey points ¨C UKBenthos (Shapefile) (these may not be consistent with the CDA Ltd platform data) Adapted from UKBenthos Database, updated January 2014: UKBenthos Version 5Jan 2014 [accessed: February 2014] http://www.oilandgasuk.co.uk/knowledgecentre/uk_benthos_database.cfm Platforms ¨C OSPAR Commission (Shapefile and Excel) OSPAR Commission, Inventory of Offshore Installations [October 2014], http://www.ospar.org/data Terms of Use http://www.ospar.org/html_documents/ospar/html/ospar_data_conditions_of_use.pdf
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Centre for Marine Biodiversity and Biotechnology
Heriot Watt University
Edinburgh
EH14 4AS
United Kingdom
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School of Life Sciences
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National Oceanography Centre
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British Geological Survey
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