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Metadata: CTD oceanographic data from Whittard Canyon, Bay of Biscay (2009)
Abstract:
This dataset consists of 6 CTD profiles from 6 stations in the Whittard Canyon, collected as part of the HERMONIE (Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European seas) and OCEANS 2025 projects. These data were collected aboard the RRS James Cook cruise JC036 (Chief Scientist Douglas Masson), which departed Brest, France, on 19 June 2009 and arrived in Southampton, UK, on 28 July 2009. The biological and geological research programme was built around a series of ROV video transects to determine variations in species and community structure and composition in different geological and topographic settings down the canyon. Additional coring, CTD and water column particulate sampling programmes were planned to investigate the recent geological history of the canyon and investigate sediment accumulation in the canyon. Macro and meiofauna were also sampled in areas of soft substrate. The sensors used for the CTD profiles include temperature, conductivity, pressure, oxygen, fluorescence, altitude, irradiance, backscatter, and attenuance. Data were collected using a ship-deployed Sea-Bird 911plus CTD System mounted with the following equipment: Sea-Bird SBE 3plus (SBE 3P) temperature sensors, Sea-Bird SBE 4C conductivity sensors, Paroscientific Digiquartz depth sensor, Sea-Bird SBE 43 Dissolved Oxygen Sensor, Chelsea Technologies Group Aquatracka III fluorometer, Chelsea Technologies Group 2-pi PAR irradiance sensors, WET Labs {Sea-Bird WETLabs} ECO BB(RT)D backscattering sensor and Chelsea Technologies Group Alphatracka II transmissometer. The CTD data were received by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) having been binned into 2m depth profiles for the downcast. The data have been processed and quality controlled using in-house BODC procedures and are available to download from the BODC website. Funding was provided by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
Data holder:
British Oceanographic Data Centre
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 7723 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | CTD oceanographic data from Whittard Canyon, Bay of Biscay (2009) |
| Alternative title | The purpose of alternative title is to record any additional names by which the dataset may be known. | British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_JC036_CTD_Whittard |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | 431c51fd81ce5a3285979fe3cb2668f5 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | EDMED7348 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | dataset |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2009-06-22 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2009-07-26 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | inapplicable |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | asNeeded |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | This dataset consists of 6 CTD profiles from 6 stations in the Whittard Canyon, collected as part of the HERMONIE (Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European seas) and OCEANS 2025 projects. These data were collected aboard the RRS James Cook cruise JC036 (Chief Scientist Douglas Masson), which departed Brest, France, on 19 June 2009 and arrived in Southampton, UK, on 28 July 2009. The biological and geological research programme was built around a series of ROV video transects to determine variations in species and community structure and composition in different geological and topographic settings down the canyon. Additional coring, CTD and water column particulate sampling programmes were planned to investigate the recent geological history of the canyon and investigate sediment accumulation in the canyon. Macro and meiofauna were also sampled in areas of soft substrate. The sensors used for the CTD profiles include temperature, conductivity, pressure, oxygen, fluorescence, altitude, irradiance, backscatter, and attenuance. Data were collected using a ship-deployed Sea-Bird 911plus CTD System mounted with the following equipment: Sea-Bird SBE 3plus (SBE 3P) temperature sensors, Sea-Bird SBE 4C conductivity sensors, Paroscientific Digiquartz depth sensor, Sea-Bird SBE 43 Dissolved Oxygen Sensor, Chelsea Technologies Group Aquatracka III fluorometer, Chelsea Technologies Group 2-pi PAR irradiance sensors, WET Labs {Sea-Bird WETLabs} ECO BB(RT)D backscattering sensor and Chelsea Technologies Group Alphatracka II transmissometer. The CTD data were received by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) having been binned into 2m depth profiles for the downcast. The data have been processed and quality controlled using in-house BODC procedures and are available to download from the BODC website. Funding was provided by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | This dataset was created by the organisations with the "originator" role in this metadata record following their in-house data processing and quality control procedures. The data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for ingestion into the series schema of the National Oceanographic Database (NODB). During ingestion BODC undertake quality control, documentation and metadata enhancement procedures appropriate to the type of data. For an overview please see http://www.bodc.ac.uk/about/informationtechnology/dataprocessing_steps/. BODC supply full information about data collection, data processing and data quality with all data requests to enable users to assess data suitability themselves.Instrument(s) used to collect data: fluorometers; water pressure sensors; acoustic backscatter sensors; CTD; transmissometers; water temperature sensor; dissolved gas sensors. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Atmospheric conditions |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Oceanographic geographical features | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Transmittance and attenuance of the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Temperature of the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Density of the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Salinity of the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Optical backscatter | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | data.gov.uk | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | unknown | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 48.8128 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -9.9667 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 48.153 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -10.5392 |
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | British Oceanographic Data Centre | |
| Individual name | Polly HadÅžiabdic | |
| Position name | Head of the BODC Requests Team | |
| Delivery point | Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street | |
| Postal code | L3 5DA | |
| City | Liverpool | |
| Administrative area | Merseyside | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@bodc.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ | |
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | British Oceanographic Data Centre | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Delivery point | Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street | |
| Postal code | L3 5DA | |
| City | Liverpool | |
| Administrative area | Merseyside | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@bodc.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | British Oceanographic Data Centre | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Delivery point | Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street | |
| Postal code | L3 5DA | |
| City | Liverpool | |
| Administrative area | Merseyside | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@bodc.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ | |
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | National Oceanography Centre (Southampton) | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Delivery point | University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way | |
| Postal code | SO14 3ZH | |
| City | Southampton | |
| Administrative area | Hampshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@noc.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://noc.ac.uk | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | National Oceanography Centre (Southampton) | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Delivery point | University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way | |
| Postal code | SO14 3ZH | |
| City | Southampton | |
| Administrative area | Hampshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@noc.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://noc.ac.uk | |
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | British Oceanographic Data Centre | |
| Position name | Director | |
| Delivery point | Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street | |
| Postal code | L3 5DA | |
| City | Liverpool | |
| Administrative area | Merseyside | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@bodc.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ | |
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | British Oceanographic Data Centre | |
| Position name | Director | |
| Delivery point | Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street | |
| Postal code | L3 5DA | |
| City | Liverpool | |
| Administrative area | Merseyside | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@bodc.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ | |
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/7348 |
| Locator name | Name of the web resource | CTD oceanographic data from Whittard Canyon, Bay of Biscay (2009) |
| Locator function | Code that describes the function of the resource. ISO function code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | order |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20.1 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 20.2 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | No limitations apply | |
| This states any limitations on access to the data. Multiple occurences are allowed here. One entry shall be from the INSPIRE Metadata registry and the other free text should be part of the resource `Have specific limitations`. | Data are freely available | |
| 21.1 Conditions for Access and Use - Use constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 21.2 Conditions for Access and Use - Other constraints | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | No conditions apply |
| Available data formats | ||
| Data format | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Binary |
| Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Network Common Data Form | |
| Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Ocean Data View | |
| Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Text or Plaintext | |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2025-02-11 |
| Date of last revision | The most recent date that the resource was revised. | 2026-03-11 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2024-05-08 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-19 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2026-03-11 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 3.1.2 |