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Metadata: 2020, Marine Space, Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm, Year 1 Post-Construction Sandeel Monitoring
Abstract:
The sandeel monitoring makes use of available sediment particle size and acoustic data collected as part of the benthic and seabed monitoring programmes. This information is used to determine whether there has been a significant effect on the distribution of sandeel habitat as a proxy for sandeel abundance, as a result of the construction of the Race Bank Offshore Windfarm (RoW). This assessment of sandeel habitat will enable an evaluation of potential implications for the Sandwich tern population of the North Norfolk Coast Special Protection Area (SPA), which is a qualifying feature of the protected site. Sandwich terns feed on small- to medium-sized fish, particularly sandeel, and their foraging range can be as great as 50-60 km from their colony.
Data holder:
The Crown Estate
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 19344 |
| 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. | 2020, Marine Space, Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm, Year 1 Post-Construction Sandeel Monitoring |
| Alternative title | The purpose of alternative title is to record any additional names by which the dataset may be known. | Year 1 Sandeel Monitoring |
| 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. | ad71e7b7-6f3b-4ff5-9da0-21957f3cb520 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | TCE-3631 |
| 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 | 2020-06-18 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2020-06-18 |
| 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'. | continual |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | The sandeel monitoring makes use of available sediment particle size and acoustic data collected as part of the benthic and seabed monitoring programmes. This information is used to determine whether there has been a significant effect on the distribution of sandeel habitat as a proxy for sandeel abundance, as a result of the construction of the Race Bank Offshore Windfarm (RoW). This assessment of sandeel habitat will enable an evaluation of potential implications for the Sandwich tern population of the North Norfolk Coast Special Protection Area (SPA), which is a qualifying feature of the protected site. Sandwich terns feed on small- to medium-sized fish, particularly sandeel, and their foraging range can be as great as 50-60 km from their colony. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | To allow for direct comparisons with the pre-construction baseline outputs, the same methodology was used to analyse the Year 1 post-construction sediment data, which was collected from 147 locations and categorised according to its suitability as sandeel habitat (Figure 2.1). As described in Greenstreet et al. (2010), as the percentage of fine sand, coarse silt, medium silt, and fine silt (particles less than 0.25 mm in diameter) increases, sandeel increasingly avoid the habitat. Conversely, as the percentage of coarse and medium sand (particles ranging from 0.25 to less than 2.0 mm) increases, sandeel demonstrate an increased preference for the habitat. Greenstreet et al. (2010) subsequently defined four distinct sandeel sediment preferences: Unsuitable, Suitable, Sub-Prime and Prime. Particle size data from the Year 1 post-construction monitoring survey (Ocean Ecology Ltd, 2018a and 2018b) were analysed following the methods of Greenstreet et al. (2010). The amount of silts and fines sands and coarse sands as a percentage of total sediment was used to allocate each sample location into four sandeel sediment preference categories (Figure 2.2). It should be noted that silts and fines sands are defined as those sediments passing through a 0.25 mm sieve, and coarse sands as those retained on a 0.25 mm sieve but passing through a 2 mm sieve (thereby including medium sands and very coarse sands as well as â??coarse sandsâ?? according to the Wentworth scale (Wentworth, 1922)). Although assessing sandeel habitats can be used as a proxy for sandeel abundance, as the Year 1 post-construction survey (Ocean Ecology Ltd, 2018a and 2018b) included faunal analysis and the faunal data set was checked for the presence of Ammodytes tobianus (lesser sandeel) and Hyperoplus lanceolatus (greater sandeel). |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Fish abundance in water bodies |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Sediment grain size parameters | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Post-Construction monitoring | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Agreement for Lease Area | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Species distribution | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.4333 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 1.0333 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 52.9 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 0.2333 |
| 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 | |
| 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 | MarineSpace Ltd | |
| Phone | +44 (0)2380 381 945 | |
| info@marinespace.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 | ||
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | Orsted | |
| info@orsted.com | ||
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/TCE-3631/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| 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 | There will be no limitations when published on the Marine Data Exchange | |
| 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. | Data Must be used in accordance to the Marine Data Exchange's Terms of Use: 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. | 2025-07-04 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-12 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2026-03-17 |
| 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 |