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Metadata: 2007, EMU Ltd, Kentish Flats, Macrobenthic Ecology Study
Abstract:
This study is the third in a series of post construction surveys which aim to assess the impacts of the Kentish Flats Wind Farm development on the physical conditions and associated biological communities within the development site and close environments. The task was achieved by comparing the data obtained during the 2007 survey to those of the 2002 baseline study (Emu Ltd, 2002a), the 2005 first post-construction study (Emu Ltd, 2006) and the 2006 second post-construction study (Emu Ltd, 2007). Benthic samples were collected by means of a full sized Hamon Grab sampler, with subsequent analysis for macrofauna and sediment components, and by scientific 2m Beam trawl to provide qualitative data on epibenthos and fish species across the area
Data holder:
The Crown Estate
Use constraints:
Publically Available
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 4388 |
| 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. | 2007, EMU Ltd, Kentish Flats, Macrobenthic Ecology Study |
| 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. | 1820b5eaefc0caddc0379596c5e8e892 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | MDE-TCE-69-3907 |
| 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. | series |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2007-05-22 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2007-05-23 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | 5 |
| Spatial resolution unit | This describes the unit of spatial resolution which for distance must be metres. | http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/gmxUom.xml#m |
| 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'. | notPlanned |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | This study is the third in a series of post construction surveys which aim to assess the impacts of the Kentish Flats Wind Farm development on the physical conditions and associated biological communities within the development site and close environments. The task was achieved by comparing the data obtained during the 2007 survey to those of the 2002 baseline study (Emu Ltd, 2002a), the 2005 first post-construction study (Emu Ltd, 2006) and the 2006 second post-construction study (Emu Ltd, 2007). Benthic samples were collected by means of a full sized Hamon Grab sampler, with subsequent analysis for macrofauna and sediment components, and by scientific 2m Beam trawl to provide qualitative data on epibenthos and fish species across the area |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | Emu Ltd undertook the field Hamon grab and Beam trawl sampling of the benthos and the subsequent laboratory processing of the sediment samples. All methods employed by Emu Ltd conformed to InHouse operating procedures and/or International Standard Organisation (ISO) 9001 control procedures where appropriate and are described below. The sediment particle size distribution analysis was undertaken at Emu Ltds United Kingdom Accreditation Standards (UKAS) accredited laboratory. Taxonomic analysis of the macrofaunal samples obtained by grab and trawl sampling was undertaken by Emu Ltd who are participants in the National Marine Biological Analytical Quality Control Scheme (NMBAQC) scheme. This scheme is an independent, national Quality Control (QC) scheme designed to assess the quality of marine benthic taxonomy between laboratories in the UK. Emu Ltd have participated since 1996 and have consistently achieved 95% compliance with the scheme. The subsequent biomass analysis was completed at Emu Ltds laboratory. The survey design aimed to provide data on the spatial distribution of the benthic faunal communities across the area, in order to allow the comparison of results with the previous study as well as with future surveys at the same locations. This will enable any potential impacts arising from the Wind Farm development scheme at Kentish Flats to be assessed over time. Sample stations were positioned to include the area covered by a single tidal excursion from the boundaries of the development area, in this case up to a distance of approximately 8km to the west and 8km to the east, based on Admiralty Tidal Diamond D, Chart No. 1183. In addition, four reference stations were located approximately 5km north east and south east of the development site, away from potential impacts, in order to provide reference data for the purposes of the long term monitoring. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | 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 | Geology | |
| 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 | Sedimentary structure | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Zoobenthos generic abundance | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Zoobenthos taxonomy-related counts | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Port-Construction monitoring | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 51.4768 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 1.1399 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 51.3596 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 1.0271 |
| Regional sea | bathybenthic | |
| 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 | The Crown Estate | |
| Position name | Marine Data Advisor | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| Delivery point | 1 St James's Market | |
| Postal code | SW1Y 4AH | |
| City | London | |
| enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Fugro EMU Limited | |
| marketing@emulimited.com | ||
| 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 | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| Delivery point | 1 St James's Market | |
| Postal code | SW1Y 4AH | |
| City | London | |
| enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/TCE-3907/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | otherRestrictions | |
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | This states any limitations on access to the data and uses free text. | Publically Available |
| 21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | 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. | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/content/info/terms-of-use |
| 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. | 2008-06-01 |
| Date of last revision | The most recent date that the resource was revised. | 2008-06-01 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2008-06-01 |
| 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. | 2024-02-26 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery metadata standard |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 2.3.8 |