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UK Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is an international standard for openness around the management of revenues from natural resources. It is designed to improve accountability...

SDNPA Conservation Areas

Local authorities (including National Park Authorities) have the power to designate conservation areas in any area of 'special architectural or historic interest' whose character or appearance is...

Manchester Airport Safeguarding Zone - wind turbines

Dataset showing that the city council should consult with Manchester Airport for any wind turbine development within the city boundary. The purpose of the safeguarding zone is to ensure that the...

2005 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA6 Technical Report - Maritime Archaeology (Irish Sea)

This report is a contribution to the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA6) conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change). In this report...

Classifications Database (CAFE)

Database of classifications of Class 1 dangerous goods, i.e. explosives and fireworks, which identifies the hazards posed by explosive substances and articles as packaged for transport. The...

Phytophthora ramorum Management Zone

An area in south-west Scotland at the heart of a major surge of P. ramorum on larch in 2013 was designated as a Management Zone by the Plant Health (Forestry) (Phytophthora ramorum Management Zone)...

Testing shoot cold hardiness in Eucalyptus (Daneshill energy plantation 2007)

Several studies on growing eucalyptus in Britain have been undertaken over the last 25 years. All recognise the potential for establishing this species as a valuable forest crop while stressing...

Water quality monitoring data GC-MS and LC-MS semi-quantitative screen

The Environment Agency uses semi-quantitative gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS and LC-MS) targeted screening methods to analyse water samples for a wide range of substances at once. This...

Degradation and microplastic generation, with associated soil properties and microbial communities, of mulch films exposed above and below ground over 12 months, North Wales, UK

This dataset contains measurements from a 12-month field experiment in the UK assessing the degradation, microplastic generation, and environmental impacts of seven plastic mulch films exposed...

Late Quaternary palynological data from the eastern Andean montane forest of Ecuador

Palaeoecological proxy data (pollen, non-pollen palynomorph (NPP), micro-charcoal, macro-charcoal, loss-on-ignition (LOI) and x-ray fluorescence (XRF)) recovered from lake sediments, cliff...

UKCCSRC Call 1 Project: Determination of water solubility limits in CO2 mixtures to deliver water specification levels for CO2 transportation

This project will determine the dew point of water, or "water solubility", in impure CO2 mixtures (e.g. containing N2 and H2). At present, key data for defining water levels have not been...

Index to the UK (North) Survey collection of fossils

This dataset is an index of the Survey Collection of fossils for Scotland and Northern England. It is the digital equivalent of the analogue (card) index. The latter contains some 31k records,...

Double Torsion Beamtime, Mechanical Data (NERC grant NE/M001458/1)

The mechanical data (loads, displacements) recorded during double torsion experiments on samples of 6 shale materials and a sandstone. These experiments were conducted on the I12 beamline, Diamond...

GeoSure Compressible Deposits

The GeoSure data sets and reports from the British Geological Survey provide information about potential ground movement or subsidence in a helpful and user-friendly format. The reports can help...

Biometric data illustrating species-specific growth response of coccolithophores to Palaeocene-Eocene environmental change (NERC Grant NE/H017291/1)

These data were produced within the objectives of the NERC grant (alongside collaborator Gibbs at NOC, Southampton) and predominantly comprise biometric data collected under light microscope at...

GeoSure compressible deposits version 8

This dataset provides an assessment of the potential for a geological deposit to compress under an applied load, a characteristic usually of superficial deposits such as peat or alluvium. Some...

British Geological Survey (BGS) Geophysical and Multibeam Survey 2011/10_JC060:Stornoway Bay subset: Stornoway Bay (19/May/2011 to 19/May/2011)

This National Oceanography Centre (NOC) marine geophysical and multibeam survey took place in May/June 2011 on board the RRS James Cook. This data is a subset from the survey collected as a MAREMAP...

Fishing Activity for UK Vessels 15m and over 2013

This data set provides summaries of fishing activity for UK commercial fishing vessels of 15m and over in length that are deemed to have been fishing within a specified calendar year. These...

Fishing activity for UK vessels 15m and over 2012 Web Feature Service (WFS)

This data set provides summaries of fishing activity for UK commercial fishing vessels of 15m and over in length that are deemed to have been fishing within a specified calendar year. These...

Fishing Activity for UK Vessels 15m and over 2014 Web Mapping Service (WMS)

This data set provides summaries of fishing activity for UK commercial fishing vessels of 15m and over in length that are deemed to have been fishing within a specified calendar year. These...