2ee467500e7459e4ae0db83367f40c2a English dataset James Ayliffe British Oceanographic Data Centre MERMAN Data Manager Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ pointOfContact 2024-08-13T08:40:26 MEDIN 3.1.1 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP Marine Environment Monitoring and Assessment National database (MERMAN) Contaminants and biological effects in biota - 1989 onwards British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048MERMAN_CF 2017-10-03 publication 2016-06-22 creation 2021-04-21 revision EDMED6541 http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ The Marine Environment Monitoring and Assessment National database (MERMAN) is a national database which holds and provides access to data collected under the Clean Safe Seas Environmental Monitoring Programme (CSEMP) formerly the National Marine Monitoring Programme (NMMP). The data collected are the responsibility of the Competent Monitoring Authorities (CMAs) who collect the samples from stations in UK waters using water sampling techniques, trawls, nets or grabs. The CMAs then send the collected samples to accredited laboratories where they are analysed. A weighting is calculated, based on the quality of the analysis. The weighting score incorporates the laboratory accreditation, reference material, inter-laboratory comparisons, detection limits, uncertainties and standard deviations. Where data do not meet a threshold score they are given a status of ‘FAIL’ and although they are stored they are not made available to external users. The contaminants and biological effects in biota data start in 1987 with greater use of the database occurring from 1997 onwards. Data are submitted by the CMAs annually and an annual submission may include updates to legacy data to provide additional data or improve data/metadata. The data held in MERMAN fulfils the UK's mandatory monitoring requirements under the Oslo and Paris Convention (OSPAR) Joint Assessments and Monitoring Programme (JAMP). These data are used in support of European Commission (EC) directives and national assessments, such as Charting Progress 2 and are also supplied to the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODNET). Unknown British Oceanographic Data Centre Unknown Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ owner Unknown British Oceanographic Data Centre Unknown Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ originator Unknown Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Unknown +44(0) 300 200 7852 Dundonald House, Upper Newtownards Road Belfast BT4 3SB United Kingdom daerahelpline@daera-ni.gov.uk. https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/ owner Unknown Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Unknown +44(0) 300 200 7852 Dundonald House, Upper Newtownards Road Belfast BT4 3SB United Kingdom daerahelpline@daera-ni.gov.uk. https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/ originator Unknown Environment Agency Head Office Unknown Rio House Waterside Drive Aztec West Almondsbury Bristol BS32 4UD United Kingdom enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk owner Unknown Environment Agency Head Office Unknown Rio House Waterside Drive Aztec West Almondsbury Bristol BS32 4UD United Kingdom enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk originator Unknown Natural Resources Wales Unknown +44 (0) 300 065 3000 Tŷ Cambria Cardiff CF24 0TP United Kingdom enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk http://naturalresourceswales.gov.uk owner Unknown Natural Resources Wales Unknown +44 (0) 300 065 3000 Tŷ Cambria Cardiff CF24 0TP United Kingdom enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk http://naturalresourceswales.gov.uk originator Unknown Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory Unknown +44 (0)1502 562244 Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 OHT United Kingdom datamanager@cefas.co.uk http://www.cefas.co.uk/ owner Unknown Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory Unknown +44 (0)1502 562244 Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 OHT United Kingdom datamanager@cefas.co.uk http://www.cefas.co.uk/ originator Unknown Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Stirling Office Unknown +44 (0)1786 452595 Strathallan House Stirling FK9 4TZ United Kingdom inapplicable https://www.sepa.org.uk/ owner Unknown Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Stirling Office Unknown +44 (0)1786 452595 Strathallan House Stirling FK9 4TZ United Kingdom inapplicable https://www.sepa.org.uk/ originator Unknown Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute Unknown +44 (0)28 90 255689 AFBI Headquarters Newforge Lane Belfast BT9 5PX United Kingdom info@afbini.gov.uk http://www.afbini.gov.uk/ owner Unknown Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute Unknown +44 (0)28 90 255689 AFBI Headquarters Newforge Lane Belfast BT9 5PX United Kingdom info@afbini.gov.uk http://www.afbini.gov.uk/ originator Unknown Food Standards Scotland Unknown 01224 285100 4th floor Pilgrim House Aberdeen AB11 5RL United Kingdom inapplicable https://www.foodstandards.gov.scot/ owner Unknown Food Standards Scotland Unknown 01224 285100 4th floor Pilgrim House Aberdeen AB11 5RL United Kingdom inapplicable https://www.foodstandards.gov.scot/ originator British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ custodian British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ distributor asNeeded Quality control flags Metal concentrations in biota Biota lipid concentrations Metadata parameters Fish disease and parasites SeaDataNet biological format biotic parameters Concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in biota SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2023-12-12 revision Species distribution Human health and safety Habitats and biotopes GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2009-07-31 revision unknown SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2020-05-21 revision data.gov.uk Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 revision otherRestrictions No limitations apply Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence otherRestrictions Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence English environment biota -11.28 4.9145 48.0453 62.00 SeaVoX water bodies 2023-09-13 revision North Sea SeaVoX water bodies 2023-09-13 revision Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland SeaVoX water bodies 2023-09-13 revision Irish Sea SeaVoX water bodies 2023-09-13 revision Bristol Channel SeaVoX water bodies 2023-09-13 revision Celtic Sea SeaVoX water bodies 2023-09-13 revision English Channel SeaVoX water bodies 2023-09-13 revision Norwegian Sea SeaVoX water bodies 2023-09-13 revision Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W) 1989-06-01 2024-08-13 Delimited https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/portals_and_links/merman/assessments_and_data_access/ MERMAN data information webpage BODC webpage describing aacess to the data information dataset COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication BODC protocols are based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model enabling BODC to iterate towards compliance with the on-going evolution and development of community requirements including FAIR (Findable,Accessible,Interoperable,Reusable), TRUST (Transparency, Responsibility, User community, Sustainability, Technology) and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics). Data managers quality assure submissions and assemble the metadata necessary for curation. Submissions (as received) are placed in a long-term accession and stored in triplicate across multiple sites. Appropriate data are transferred into a standard internal format with source variable names mapped to controlled vocabularies, documentation assembled, and metadata loaded into BODC databases. Access to these data is through direct request, the BODC website and through partner repositories such as SeaDataNet. Access control is attained by assigning a data policy to each set of data and this policy is used to administer access when data are requested. Discovery metadata is aligned with EU INSPIRE (through MEDIN) and SeaDataNet community standards. Data are converted to open community formats including Ocean Data View ASCII and SeaDataNet NetCDF, with data described using terms from the NERC vocabulary server. BODC submission agreements are documented on the BODC website and customer service is assured with a dedicated requests team that serve data following local regulations including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018 and Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004. true The Competent Monitoring Authorities send the collected samples to accredited laboratories where they are analysed. A weighting is calculated, based on the quality of the analysis. The weighting score incorporates the laboratory accreditation, reference material, inter-laboratory comparisons, detection limits, uncertainties and standard deviations.The MERMAN Management Team facilitate and coordinate the data submissions. This achieved by liaising with the CMAs, providing advice and managing the database through database enhancements and the implementation of database rules.Once submissions are complete the MERMAN Management Team curate and check the data submissions investigating any noticeable errors. This is done by using visual tools from various local software and running the data through ICES checking software. Any errors to the data are then ranked by status, the CMAs are informed and the most critical errors are corrected and resubmitted.