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JNCC visual aerial bird survey data

This resource provides visual aerial survey data for seaduck, divers, grebes, and little gull. Data were collected visually from aircraft at the following sites, identified as holding potentially...

2024 Mossy Earth NRF Seagrass Surveys

Community-led surveys of Moray and Cromarty firths using the NatureScot Community Monitoring Handbook methodology 3.3 Feature Focus: Habitat Mapping. Funded by Nature Restoration Fund.

Area Management - Marine - Local Coastal Partnerships

The Scottish Coastal Forum was formed in 1996 to encourage debate at national level on coastal issues. Its members advise Marine Scotland, from an operational perspective, on the development of...

2009 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) biological analysis of Fisheries Research Services (FRS) Orkney west coast and Pentland Firth seabed camera survey

In order to assess the likely environmental impact of the development of renewable energy schemes around the Orkney Islands, the Scottish Government commissioned Marine Scotland Science to map...

2004 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA5 Sediment hydrocarbon analysis of seabed sediments collected in North of Scotland, August - October 2003

As part of the UK Department of Trade and Industry's (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) ongoing sectorial Strategic Environmental Assessment a seabed survey programme (SEA5) was...

British Geological Survey (BGS) Geophysical and Sampling Survey 1973/WH/12: Firth of Forth - Peterhead (02/06/1973 to 16/06/1973)

This geophysical and sampling survey has been carried out by British Geological Survey (BGS) for BGS, the survey took place in June 1973 in the North Sea (Marr Bank and Tay-Forth map sheet areas on...

Island - Scotland

The geography of Scotland comprises the mainland plus many islands. Some of these islands are inhabited and through time their inhabited/uninhabited status can change. Most of Scotland’s...

Saltmarsh surface elevation change data, UK, 2023-2024

Presented here are compiled data of sediment accretion across UK saltmarshes. All data have been collected using globally standardised methods of monitoring sediment accretion using the rod...

British Geological Survey (BGS) Sampling Survey 1973/WH/2: North Sea, Firth of Forth to Aberdeen (10/Apr/1973 to 29/May/1973)

This sampling survey has been carried out by British Geological Survey (BGS) for BGS, the survey took place in April to May1973 in the North Sea (Marr Bank and Tay-Forth map sheet areas on board...

British Geological Survey (BGS) Geophysical Survey 1970/3: Moray Firth and East and south of Orkney (23/05/1970 to 17/06/1970)

Report: Sunderland, J, and Tully, M. 1970. Cruise Report for MV Surveyor. MGU Project 70/03. (IGS Report No 9) Positioning: Main Chain Decca using Decca Type 1844 Type receiver. Coastline...

British Geological Survey (BGS) Geophysical and Sampling Survey 1974/WH/9: Dogger Forties/Forth Approaches/Moray Firth (03/03/1974 to 06/07/1974)

This British Geological Survey (BGS) marine geophysical and sampling survey comprised several two week phases and took place from March to June 1974 in the Dogger, Forties and Forth Appoaches areas...

2014 Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Fifth of Forth and Forth Estuary Intertidal Seagrass Survey

Trial Intertidal seagrass survey at several sites in the Firth of Forth and Forth Estuary, Scotland for EU Water Framework Directive Monitoring using the WFD (Angiosperm) Intertidal Seagrass tool....

2014 Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Fifth of Forth and Forth Estuary Intertidal Seagrass Survey

Trial Intertidal seagrass survey at several sites in the Firth of Forth and Forth Estuary, Scotland for EU Water Framework Directive Monitoring using the WFD (Angiosperm) Intertidal Seagrass tool....

Area Management - Standing approvals for use of chemical dispersants in response to oil spills

Areas where standing approvals permit the application of a limited quantity of chemical dispersants, without the permission of Marine Scotland, to respond to an oil spill. Two areas exist at the...

Habitat point records from 1982 Leicester Polytechnic Shetland Oil Terminal approaches survey

Thirty permanent transects established in 1978 and 1979, were surveyed. Individual stations were permanently marked at 25cm vertical intervals. Abundance scales from the report have been adapted...

Species point records from 1982 Leicester Polytechnic Shetland Oil Terminal approaches survey

Thirty permanent transects established in 1978 and 1979, were surveyed. Individual stations were permanently marked at 25cm vertical intervals. Abundance scales from the report have been adapted...

British Geological Survey (BGS) Sampling Survey 1970/13: Beach/Tidal zone: East and West coast of Scotland (12/Jan/1970 to 09/May/1970)

This British Geological Survey (BGS) marine sampling survey took place in 1970 along the east coast from Firth of Forth to Aberdeen and west coast River Clyde. The purpose was to collect beach...

Chemical contaminants and shell index values for gannet eggs

This dataset gives concentrations of chemical contaminants in the contents of eggs collected from colonies of the northern gannet, Morus bassanus, in the United Kingdom. The majority of eggs...

Distribution of UK North Sea lithostratigraphic units

This dataset shows the distribution of Middle Jurassic, Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous lithostratigraphic (UK Offshore Operators Association - UKOOA) units within the UK North Sea graben. The...

British Geological Survey (BGS) Geophysical Survey 1969/6: Southern North Sea (11/09/1969 to 30/09/1969)

This geophysical survey has been carried out by Institute of Geological Sciences now British Geological Survey (BGS) for BGS, the survey took place in September 1969 in the southern North Sea off...