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Burbo Offshore Wind Farm is a twenty-five turbine, 90MW development located in Liverpool Bay approximately 6km from the coastlines of Wirral, Crosby and Liverpool. A licence (31864/07/0) was issued under the Food and Environment Protection Act (FEPA) to the wind farm developer, SeaScape Energy Ltd, which allows them to construct and operate the wind farm. The licence conditions include a requirement to monitor seabed sediments and invertebrate communities in and around the wind farm to allow the Licensing Authority (Marine and Fisheries Agency) to consider: if any action may be required to mitigate or correct any adverse effects which may be identified.’’ The benthic (seabed) monitoring programme consists of surveys by grab sampling and beam trawling (the latter providing information on demersal fish as well as epibenthic invertebrates and being reported separately). The benthic survey programme has been undertaken by Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies Ltd (CMACS) on behalf of SeaScape. The programme commenced with baseline (pre-construction) surveys in autumn 2005. The report in this series presents the results of the benthic grabs carried out in autumn 2009, more than two years after completion of major construction activities, and considers results of all four surveys (baseline, during construction and two post-construction) in relation to the potential effects of wind farm construction and operation on benthic environmental receptors.
The Crown Estate
Other details | ||
Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 7426 |
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. | 2009, Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies Ltd., (CMACS), Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm, Post-construction (Year 3) Benthic Grab 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. | ab423f8c-82a4-4e83-9c3f-8d0edc0e5195 |
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 | 2009-09-16 |
End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2009-09-17 |
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. | Burbo Offshore Wind Farm is a twenty-five turbine, 90MW development located in Liverpool Bay approximately 6km from the coastlines of Wirral, Crosby and Liverpool. A licence (31864/07/0) was issued under the Food and Environment Protection Act (FEPA) to the wind farm developer, SeaScape Energy Ltd, which allows them to construct and operate the wind farm. The licence conditions include a requirement to monitor seabed sediments and invertebrate communities in and around the wind farm to allow the Licensing Authority (Marine and Fisheries Agency) to consider: if any action may be required to mitigate or correct any adverse effects which may be identified.’’ The benthic (seabed) monitoring programme consists of surveys by grab sampling and beam trawling (the latter providing information on demersal fish as well as epibenthic invertebrates and being reported separately). The benthic survey programme has been undertaken by Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies Ltd (CMACS) on behalf of SeaScape. The programme commenced with baseline (pre-construction) surveys in autumn 2005. The report in this series presents the results of the benthic grabs carried out in autumn 2009, more than two years after completion of major construction activities, and considers results of all four surveys (baseline, during construction and two post-construction) in relation to the potential effects of wind farm construction and operation on benthic environmental receptors. |
Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | Grab sampling was carried out from the survey vessel ‘Halcyon Days’ on the 16th and 17th September 2009 and all samples were obtained using a 0.1 m2 Day grab to maintain consistency with all previous surveys. At each station the survey vessel was positioned to within 10 m of the target point using DGPS and actual sample position recorded to ± 2 m. |
Related keywords | ||
Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Renewable Energy Lease area |
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 | Offshore Cable Corridor | |
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 | Sedimentary structure | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Fauna abundance per unit area of the bed | |
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 | Shellfish abundance and biomass in water bodies | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Bathymetry and Elevation | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network | |
Keyword title | MEDIN | |
Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
Keyword title | MEDIN | |
Geographical coverage | ||
North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.503910033325 |
East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -3.1482399644978 |
South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.470125002674 |
West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -3.2235428721144 |
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 | |
Delivery point | 16 New Burlington Place | |
Postal code | W1S 2HX | |
City | London | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
URL | http://www.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 | |
Delivery point | 16 New Burlington Place | |
Postal code | W1S 2HX | |
City | London | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
URL | http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies Ltd | |
Phone | +44 (0)151 327 7177 | |
Fax | +44 (0)151 327 6344 | |
Delivery point | Head Office,, CMACS Ltd,, 80 Eastham Village Road, | |
Postal code | CH62 0AW | |
City | Eastham | |
Administrative area | Wirral | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
URL | http://www.cmacsltd.co.uk/ | |
Resource locators | ||
Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/196/summary |
Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
Dataset constraints | ||
20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | ISO restriction code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | copyright |
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. | http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx |
21 Conditions for access and use – Use limitation | Any restrictions imposed on accessing the resource. | http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx |
Available data formats | ||
Data format name | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | |
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. | 2024-03-29 |
Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2015-12-17 |
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 | Version 2.3.8 |
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