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  <dc:title xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sediment Particulate Organic Carbon in Marine Sediments around England and Wales 1996 - 2017</dc:title>
  <dc:type xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">dataset</dc:type>
  <dc:identifier xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start.php?tpc=009_CEFASf5fe17ea-81d4-4ae9-b9a6-00943554c4c0</dc:identifier>
  <dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sediment particulate organic carbon (and nitrogen) data from marine samples 
collected between 1996-2017 around England and Wales. Measurements for less 
than 2mm sediment fraction or/and less than 63 micron sediment fraction are 
given. Silt/clay percentage is also included (for either/both sieving and 
laser methodologies) as well as sample weight where available. These data have 
been collated from a variety of sources, including CSEMP monitoring, nephrops 
monitoring, fishing pressures research and the NERC shelf seas programme to 
support on-going investigations for the Cefas/Defra project ''Operational 
indicators of seafloor integrity'. This new revision includes new data from 
samples collected in 2015 to 2017, including CSEMP monitoring and MPA 
monitoring surveys (core as well as surface). The work to create this revision 
was conducted under work package 5 &#x201C;Data Synthesis and Management of Marine 
and Coastal Carbon&#x201D; (C6090, NE/K001914/1) of the Shelf Sea Biogeochemistry 
programme jointly funded by the National Environment Research Council (NERC) 
and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) of the 
United Kingdom.</dc:description>
  <dc:date xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">20170123 20170123</dc:date>
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