CEFAS23de6638-2f10-4083-a9fa-b4c66785da63 English dataset Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk pointOfContact 2022-01-05T11:25:17 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2022-01-07 revision WGS 84 Benthic Sampling From Aggregate Extraction Environmental Assessment Reference Stations - Isle of Wight and Eastern English Channel 1998-2006 2020-07-22 publication 2022-01-05 revision 2020-06-05 creation CEFAS20641 https://data.cefas.co.uk Benthic sampling data from 0.1m2 Hamon grabs taken at a network of selected benthic sampling stations within the Isle of Wight and Eastern English Channel regions between 1998-2005. These stations were defined as Environmental Assessment Reference Stations (EARS). Data is selected site monitoring, containing details of macrofauna found in each sample. This data was part of a continuation of a time-series under a previous Defra project (AO903) within the Isle of Wight and Cross Sands regions. Newly acquired and existing data from each of the three sampling locations has been analysed independently following a standardised analytical approach and results presented in three site-specific peer-reviewed publications. Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk originator Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk custodian Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk distributor Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk owner notPlanned Benthos Sediment Monitoring Human impacts GEMET, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Human activity SeaDataNet P03 parameter discovery vocabulary 2011-03-25 revision Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Circalittoral Deep Circalittoral Benthic boundary SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2010-05-18 revision Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 publication data.gov.uk MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 publication otherRestrictions noLimitations otherRestrictions Public data - no limitations to reuse English biota -2.00 2.00 50.00 51.25 1998-06-10 2006-07-23 Delimited Geographic Information System Unknown https://data.cefas.co.uk/view/20641 Cefas Data Portal download The Cefas Data Portal contains metadata records and data sets available to download and connect to in support of our commitment to open science. Data is available in the following formats: CSV, ESRI Shapefile. The data can also be accessed via the WFS and WMS protocols. dataset INSPIRE Data Specification on Species Distribution – Technical Guidelines 2013-12-10 publication false See the referenced specification 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 true See the referenced specification Environmental assessment reference stations was a module in the Defra project, 'A strategic evaluation of the impacts of aggregate extraction on marine fauna' (2003-2008). The objective of this module was to establish strategically placed reference stations in the vicinity of ongoing and likely future aggregate extraction activity, which would be accessible both to regulators and the industry. These reference stations would also serve to help assess the effects of local and wider scale impacts and provide a temporal component to the evaluation of environmental changes. As well as contributing towards achieving the main objective of Module 3, each publication also concentrates on highly relevant scientific questions such as defining, monitoring and managing thresholds of acceptable disturbance, addressing the underlying principles of Before/After Control/Impact (BACI) survey designs, and defining the decision process necessary for the selection of EARS. The incorporation of EARS into surveys may provide developers with time-series data of sufficient length to allow them to adopt a BACI approach to survey design, thus providing greater confidence when assessing environmental change. MEDIN 3.1.1