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The Community Seagrass Initiative is a citizen science lead monitoring programme. It focusses on sub-tidal seagrass beds in the South West of England between Looe in Cornwall and Weymouth in Dorset. There are 19 beds surveyed by the project in total, some, but not all, fall within the boundaries of designated Marine Protected Areas (MPS's). Data on seagrass shoot density, fauna counts on a very broad sale, and presence/absence of some Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) and commercial fisheries species. Data is collected by volunteer divers that don't necessarily have previous marine biological surveying experience. They have been trained by the project on the surveying and animal identification skills required.
National Marine Aquarium (NMA)
National Marine Aquarium (NMA)
This version is public access (certain species removed). The complete version is available with permission from the National Marine Aquarium.
Other details | ||
Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 5537 |
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. | 2015 - 2017 Community Seagrass Initiative (CSI) South Coast Cornwall, Devon and Dorset Seagrass Transect Survey |
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. | e738e8b672c30ac9533edb1bd62bca8a |
Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | DASSHSE00000043 |
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 | 2015-03-25 |
End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2017-09-22 |
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. | The Community Seagrass Initiative is a citizen science lead monitoring programme. It focusses on sub-tidal seagrass beds in the South West of England between Looe in Cornwall and Weymouth in Dorset. There are 19 beds surveyed by the project in total, some, but not all, fall within the boundaries of designated Marine Protected Areas (MPS's). Data on seagrass shoot density, fauna counts on a very broad sale, and presence/absence of some Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) and commercial fisheries species. Data is collected by volunteer divers that don't necessarily have previous marine biological surveying experience. They have been trained by the project on the surveying and animal identification skills required. |
Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | The Community Seagrass Initiative (CSI) is a citizen science project focused on increasing knowledge about sub-tidal seagrass (Zostera marina) habitats in the South West of England. As such the data has been collected by volunteers who's backgrounds are not necessarily in marine monitoring but who show an interest in developing these skills. All volunteers were capable of collecting very accurate data on seagrass shoot density so this data is of high quality. For the fauna abundance data each volunteer is assessed by their local Project Officer to either be a "Beginner" or "Competent" surveyor. This is based on the Project Officer's opinion (based on previous experience as well as quality assurance on the CSI surveys) of their ability to identify fauna to the appropriate level for this survey. The survey protocol is as follows: Diver pairs are equipped with a 0.5m x 0.5m quadrat, a recording slate, camera in underwater housing and a surface marker buoy mounted with a handheld Garmin GPS (to enable later geo-referencing of photos taken) as well as their personal dive computers and compasses. All divers follow the same protocol, there can be 3-5 diver pairs taking part in parallel transects during each survey. At the point of deployment the diver pair descend and survey 3 randomly sampled quadrats which make up "station A". They then swim along a pre-determined compass bearing and certain distance and survey a further 3 quadrats at "station B". This pattern continues until the diver pair have either completed all 5 stations (3 quadrats at each station A-E) or reach the maximum dive time given, whichever comes first. Divers must take photos of each quadrat for later quality assurance checks of the data collected. Within the quadrat divers will count the number of seagrass shoots (to allow shoot density to be calculated) and the abundance present of each of the following broad fauna groups: Ascidians, Bryozoans (counted as number of blades with bryozoan colonies present), Cnidarians (including hydroids which are counted as number of blades with hydroid colonies present), Crustaceans, Echinoderms, Fish, Molluscs, Porifera, and Worms (of all worm phyla). The presence of certain Biodiversity Action Plan Species and commercial fisheries species will also be recorded throughout the dive (not confined to within quadrats). This list of species is: Hippocampus hippocampus, Hippocampus guttulatus, any species of stalked jellyfish, Atrina fragilis, Raja undulata (and its eggs), Pollachius pollachius, Pecten maximus, Sepia officinalis (and its eggs). Survey results are discussed with divers immediately after dive ends. Slates are checked by the Project Officers. Written results quality assured against photos taken. |
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 | NDGO0005 | |
Keyword title | data.gov.uk | |
Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Habitats and biotopes |
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 | Habitats and biotopes | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Fish taxonomy-related counts | |
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 | Macroalgae and seagrass taxonomy-related counts | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | oceans | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Seabed Impact | |
Geographical coverage | ||
North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 50.7425 |
East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -2.167 |
South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 50.1408 |
West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -4.5153 |
Regional sea | Western Channel and Celtic Sea | |
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 | National Marine Aquarium (NMA) | |
Individual name | Data Manager National Marine Aquarium (NMA) | |
Position name | Data Manager | |
Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
Organisation name | National Marine Aquarium (NMA) | |
Individual name | Data Manager National Marine Aquarium (NMA) | |
Position name | Data Manager | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | National Marine Aquarium (NMA) | |
Individual name | Data Manager National Marine Aquarium (NMA) | |
Position name | Data Manager | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | National Marine Aquarium (NMA) | |
Individual name | Mark Parry | |
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 | National Marine Aquarium (NMA) | |
Individual name | Data Manager National Marine Aquarium (NMA) | |
Position name | Data Manager | |
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 | National Marine Aquarium (NMA) | |
Individual name | Mark Parry | |
Resource locators | ||
Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | http://doi.org/10.17031/64771292116ed |
Locator name | Name of the web resource | DOI URL |
Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | http://https://www.dassh.ac.uk |
Locator name | Name of the web resource | DASSH website |
Dataset constraints | ||
20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | ISO restriction code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | otherRestrictions |
20 Limitations on Public Access – Other constraints | Any restriction on the use of the resource such as the need to agree to certain licence conditions. | This version is public access (certain species removed). The complete version is available with permission from the National Marine Aquarium. |
21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | Any restrictions imposed on accessing the resource such as the need to agree to certain licence conditions. | Please cite the "Community Seagrass Initiative, National Marine Aquarium" when using |
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. | 2017-12-15 |
Date of last revision | The most recent date that the resource was revised. | 2017-12-15 |
Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2018-02-02 |
Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2023-06-01 |
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 |
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