eb8242331d39553cbac745875a73ea0b English dataset Polly Hadžiabdić British Oceanographic Data Centre Head of the BODC Requests Team Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk https://www.bodc.ac.uk/ pointOfContact 2026-03-13T17:41:29 MEDIN 3.1.2 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP Hazardous chemicals in cetaceans obtained from existing data and post-mortem examinations on stranded cetaceans in the UK (1991 - 2020) British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_ChemPop_stranded_cetaceans 2025-02-11 publication 2024-11-27 creation 2026-03-13 revision EDMED7368 http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ These datasets contain chemical analysis data from stranded cetaceans, generated as part of the ChemPop NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) grant (NE/S000100/1) Marine Work Package. The stranded cetaceans were located along the UK coastline, from July 1991 to December 2020. The datasets include variables relating to where and when the animal stranded (National_Reference, Species, Date stranded, Latitude, Longitude, Location). The data also include variables that were collected during post-mortem (PM) examination (Sex, Length, Age Group, Condition at PM, Cause of Death Category, Cause of Death Class, Body Weight, Girth, Dorsal blubber thickness, Lateral blubber thickness and Ventral blubber thickness). The variable 'Tissue' is included to state which tissue underwent chemical analysis. 80 harbour porpoises and 83 common dolphins were analysed in total. For harbour porpoises, there are variables for each of the trace elements, determined by Cefas (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science), using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). For the trace element data, there is also a variable for Total Solids so the metal concentrations can be converted from a wet weight to a dry weight. For common dolphins, there are variables for each of the 25 PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) congeners, determined by Cefas, using gas-chromatography electron capture detection (GC-ECD). For the PCB data there is also a variable on lipid percentage as the sum. These data were collected with the aim to determine the burdens and impacts of hazardous chemicals on cetaceans. The data were collected as part of the collaborative UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP), which has been running since 1990, funded by Defra and the Devolved Administrations. 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 Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Edinburgh) Unknown +44 (0)131 445 4343 Bush Estate Penicuik Midlothian EH26 0QB United Kingdom enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://www.ceh.ac.uk/ owner Unknown Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Edinburgh) Unknown +44 (0)131 445 4343 Bush Estate Penicuik Midlothian EH26 0QB United Kingdom enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://www.ceh.ac.uk/ originator Unknown Zoological Society of London, Institute of Zoology Unknown +44 (0)20 7449 6610 Regent's Park London London NW1 4RY United Kingdom enquiries@ioz.ac.uk https://www.zsl.org/science owner Unknown Zoological Society of London, Institute of Zoology Unknown +44 (0)20 7449 6610 Regent's Park London London NW1 4RY United Kingdom enquiries@ioz.ac.uk https://www.zsl.org/science 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 Human health and safety Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2009-07-31 revision unknown SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2020-05-21 revision Concentration of other substances in biota Concentration of polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) in biota Biota lipid concentrations Cetacean mortality SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2023-12-12 revision Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres data.gov.uk Marine Environmental Data and Information Network 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 -7.3915 1.6847 49.983 60.1702 SeaVoX water bodies 2025-08-07 revision North Atlantic Ocean SeaVoX water bodies 2025-08-07 revision English Channel 1991-07-18 2020-12-08 Delimited https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/ BODC's published library catalogue search interface BODC's published library catalogue search interface search https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/2e698a2f-a288-70a5-e063-7086abc072aa/ Published dataset - doi:10.5285/2e698a2f-a288-70a5-e063-7086abc072aa Williams R.S., Curnick D.J., Baillie A., Barber J., Barnett J.E.F., Brownlow A., Deaville R., Davison N.J., ten Doeschate M.T.I., Jepson P.D., Murphy S., Penrose R.S., Perkins M., Spiro S., Williams R., Williamson M.J., Cunningham A.A., Johnson A.C. (2025). Blubber PCB concentrations in UK-stranded short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) between July 1991 and December 2020. NERC EDS British Oceanographic Data Centre NOC doi: 10.5285/2e698a2f-a288-70a5-e063-7086abc072aa download https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/4a2a78f7-2cca-27e1-e063-7086abc079da/ Published dataset - doi:10.5285/4a2a78f7-2cca-27e1-e063-7086abc079da Williams R.S., Curnick D.J., Baillie A., Barber J., Barnett J.E.F., Brownlow A., Deaville R., Davison N.J., ten Doeschate M.T.I., Jepson P.D., Penrose R.S., Perkins M., Spiro S., Williams R., Cunningham A.A., Johnson A.C., Warford L. (2026). Liver heavy metal concentrations in UK-stranded harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) between February 2014 and April 2018. 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