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Metadata: 2022, North West Wildlife Trust, Marine Internships, Marine Net Gain Research and Evidence Project
Abstract:
This report was produced as part of the Marine Futures Internship, a collaborative project between Natural England, Ørsted, The Crown Estate, and the North West Wildlife Trusts, funded by The Crown Estate and managed by Cumbria Wildlife Trust. The project aims to support the UK Governments development of the "Marine Net Gain" (MNG) policy, which requires developers to leave marine biodiversity in a better state than before development. This policy is crucial for expanding the offshore renewable energy sector whilst aiding marine nature recovery. Using data from the Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm, the report tests various scenarios to highlight the advantages and challenges of using a metric to calculate biodiversity value in marine environments. It identifies key issues such as the scarcity of knowledge on marine habitats, the difficulty of restoring marine environments, and the need for strategic significance in habitat restoration. The report provides recommendations for improving the metric and suggests involving developers and stakeholders in its development to ensure a smooth transition into policy.
Data holder:
The Crown Estate
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 19121 |
| 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. | 2022, North West Wildlife Trust, Marine Internships, Marine Net Gain Research and Evidence Project |
| 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. | 4b76ee69-0073-4545-9f1b-006ca61f8f4a |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | MDE-195-4141 |
| 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 | 2022-06-07 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2022-12-03 |
| 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'. | notPlanned |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | This report was produced as part of the Marine Futures Internship, a collaborative project between Natural England, Ørsted, The Crown Estate, and the North West Wildlife Trusts, funded by The Crown Estate and managed by Cumbria Wildlife Trust. The project aims to support the UK Governments development of the "Marine Net Gain" (MNG) policy, which requires developers to leave marine biodiversity in a better state than before development. This policy is crucial for expanding the offshore renewable energy sector whilst aiding marine nature recovery. Using data from the Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm, the report tests various scenarios to highlight the advantages and challenges of using a metric to calculate biodiversity value in marine environments. It identifies key issues such as the scarcity of knowledge on marine habitats, the difficulty of restoring marine environments, and the need for strategic significance in habitat restoration. The report provides recommendations for improving the metric and suggests involving developers and stakeholders in its development to ensure a smooth transition into policy. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | This report uses data from Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm to generate three offshore wind farm “scenarios” which were tested against an experimental marine version of Natural Englands Biodiversity Metric, to highlight some of the advantages and challenges of using a metric to calculate biodiversity value of marine environments, as well as some of the more general challenges of implementing Marine Net Gain policy. Two versions of this metric were tested within the report, with one metric including a “strategic significance” factor which increased the value of a habitat if it was located within an area of particular importance to biodiversity, for example a Marine Protected Area. An additional metric was used to calculate impact of a development on species. |
| 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 | Environmental monitoring facilities | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Biodiversity indices | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Habitat characterisation | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Man-made structures | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 60.125091693362 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 3.9990234375 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 49.745781306156 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -8.0419921875 |
| 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 | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| enquiries@thecrownestate.co.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 | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/TCE-4141/summary |
| 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.marinedataexchange.co.uk |
| 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 | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/content/info/terms-of-use | |
| 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. | Publically Available |
| 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. | 2022-12-30 |
| Date of last revision | The most recent date that the resource was revised. | 2022-12-02 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2022-12-02 |
| 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. | 2025-03-24 |
| 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 |