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Metadata: Hazardous chemicals in cetaceans obtained from existing data and post-mortem examinations on stranded cetaceans in the UK (1991 - 2020)
Abstract:
These datasets contain chemical analysis data from stranded cetaceans, generated as part of the ChemPop NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) grant (NE/S000100/1) Marine Work Package. The stranded cetaceans were located along the UK coastline, from July 1991 to December 2020. The datasets include variables relating to where and when the animal stranded (National_Reference, Species, Date stranded, Latitude, Longitude, Location). The data also include variables that were collected during post-mortem (PM) examination (Sex, Length, Age Group, Condition at PM, Cause of Death Category, Cause of Death Class, Body Weight, Girth, Dorsal blubber thickness, Lateral blubber thickness and Ventral blubber thickness). The variable 'Tissue' is included to state which tissue underwent chemical analysis. 80 harbour porpoises and 83 common dolphins were analysed in total. For harbour porpoises, there are variables for each of the trace elements, determined by Cefas (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science), using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). For the trace element data, there is also a variable for Total Solids so the metal concentrations can be converted from a wet weight to a dry weight. For common dolphins, there are variables for each of the 25 PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) congeners, determined by Cefas, using gas-chromatography electron capture detection (GC-ECD). For the PCB data there is also a variable on lipid percentage as the sum. These data were collected with the aim to determine the burdens and impacts of hazardous chemicals on cetaceans. The data were collected as part of the collaborative UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP), which has been running since 1990, funded by Defra and the Devolved Administrations.
Data holder:
British Oceanographic Data Centre
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 8433 |
| 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. | Hazardous chemicals in cetaceans obtained from existing data and post-mortem examinations on stranded cetaceans in the UK (1991 - 2020) |
| 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_ChemPop_stranded_cetaceans |
| 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. | eb8242331d39553cbac745875a73ea0b |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | EDMED7368 |
| 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 | 1991-07-18 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2020-12-08 |
| 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. | These datasets contain chemical analysis data from stranded cetaceans, generated as part of the ChemPop NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) grant (NE/S000100/1) Marine Work Package. The stranded cetaceans were located along the UK coastline, from July 1991 to December 2020. The datasets include variables relating to where and when the animal stranded (National_Reference, Species, Date stranded, Latitude, Longitude, Location). The data also include variables that were collected during post-mortem (PM) examination (Sex, Length, Age Group, Condition at PM, Cause of Death Category, Cause of Death Class, Body Weight, Girth, Dorsal blubber thickness, Lateral blubber thickness and Ventral blubber thickness). The variable 'Tissue' is included to state which tissue underwent chemical analysis. 80 harbour porpoises and 83 common dolphins were analysed in total. For harbour porpoises, there are variables for each of the trace elements, determined by Cefas (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science), using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). For the trace element data, there is also a variable for Total Solids so the metal concentrations can be converted from a wet weight to a dry weight. For common dolphins, there are variables for each of the 25 PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) congeners, determined by Cefas, using gas-chromatography electron capture detection (GC-ECD). For the PCB data there is also a variable on lipid percentage as the sum. These data were collected with the aim to determine the burdens and impacts of hazardous chemicals on cetaceans. The data were collected as part of the collaborative UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP), which has been running since 1990, funded by Defra and the Devolved Administrations. |
| 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 long-term archive and data publication in the BODC Published Data Library.Instrument(s) used to collect data: gas chromatographs; inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometers. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Human health and safety |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Species distribution | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | unknown | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Concentration of other substances in biota | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Concentration of polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) in biota | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Biota lipid concentrations | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Cetacean mortality | |
| 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 | data.gov.uk | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 60.1702 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 1.6847 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 49.983 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -7.3915 |
| Regional sea | North Atlantic Ocean | |
| 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 | Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Edinburgh) | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +44 (0)131 445 4343 | |
| Delivery point | Bush Estate | |
| Postal code | EH26 0QB | |
| City | Penicuik | |
| Administrative area | Midlothian | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@ceh.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/ | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Edinburgh) | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +44 (0)131 445 4343 | |
| Delivery point | Bush Estate | |
| Postal code | EH26 0QB | |
| City | Penicuik | |
| Administrative area | Midlothian | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@ceh.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.ceh.ac.uk/ | |
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | Zoological Society of London, Institute of Zoology | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +44 (0)20 7449 6610 | |
| Delivery point | Regent's Park | |
| Postal code | NW1 4RY | |
| City | London | |
| Administrative area | London | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@ioz.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.zsl.org/science | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Zoological Society of London, Institute of Zoology | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +44 (0)20 7449 6610 | |
| Delivery point | Regent's Park | |
| Postal code | NW1 4RY | |
| City | London | |
| Administrative area | London | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@ioz.ac.uk | ||
| URL | https://www.zsl.org/science | |
| 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/published_data_library/ |
| Locator name | Name of the web resource | BODC's published library catalogue search interface |
| Locator function | Code that describes the function of the resource. ISO function code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | search |
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/2e698a2f-a288-70a5-e063-7086abc072aa/ |
| Locator name | Name of the web resource | Published dataset - doi:10.5285/2e698a2f-a288-70a5-e063-7086abc072aa |
| Locator function | Code that describes the function of the resource. ISO function code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | download |
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/4a2a78f7-2cca-27e1-e063-7086abc079da/ |
| Locator name | Name of the web resource | Published dataset - doi:10.5285/4a2a78f7-2cca-27e1-e063-7086abc079da |
| Locator function | Code that describes the function of the resource. ISO function code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | download |
| 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 to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence | |
| 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. | Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence |
| Available data formats | ||
| Data format | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Delimited |
| 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. | 2026-03-13 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2024-11-27 |
| 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. | 2026-03-13 |
| 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 |