91bb98662921423f936d0eb9f38e8da4 eng series ABPmer +44 (0)23 8071 1840 Quayside Suite, Medina Chambers, Town Quay Southampton SO14 2AQ United Kingdom enquiries@abpmer.co.uk https://www.abpmer.co.uk pointOfContact 2014-04-29 MEDIN Discovery Profile 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP 2010 -2011, SMRU Ltd., European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre, Bird and Marine Mammal Surveys 2012-01-17 publication 001 http://www.vattenfall.co.uk/en/aberdeen-bay.htm Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm Limited (AOWFL) has applied for consent to Marine Scotland for the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) and as part of that process have been collecting and processing the required ecological data. Previously 15 months of boat-based surveys for marine mammals and seabirds had been carried out by Hull University and RPS during 2007-2008. SMRU Ltd were contracted to conduct a further 12 months of surveys which started in August 2010. This report presents data on the distribution of sightings and acoustic detections of marine mammals and sightings of seabirds from the 12 surveys which took place between August 2010 and August 2011. Vattenfall Wind Power Ltd +44 (0) 1434 611300 Bridge End Hexham NE46 4NU United Kingdom info@vattenfall.com http://www.vattenfall.com distributor SMRU Limited +44 (0) 1334 479 100 +44 (0)1334 477 878 Scottish Oceans Institute, New Technology Centre, North Haugh St Andrews Fife KY16 9SR United Kingdom info@smru.co.uk http://www.smru.co.uk originator Crown Estate Scotland 0131 260 6070 Quartermile Two, 2nd Floor, 2 Lister Square Edinburgh EH3 9GL enquiries@crownestatescotland.com https://www.crownestatescotland.com custodian asNeeded Cetacean abundance SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2014-03-27 revision 82 Cetacean behaviour SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2014-03-27 revision 82 Bird behaviour SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2014-03-27 revision 82 Bird counts SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2014-03-27 revision 82 Bird taxonomy-related abundance per unit area of surface SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2014-03-27 revision 82 Consenting The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Phases 2012-05-15 revision 1 Agreement for Lease Area The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Areas 2012-05-15 revision 1 Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Marine mammals Marine biodiversity Seal abundance http://marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx copyright copyright http://marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx http://marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx eng biota environment -2.25 -1.65 56.99 57.27 2010-08-03 2011-08-23 Delimited Delimited https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/CES-102/summary A link to the web service or dataset. https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk A link to the general host site. series The aim of the Year 2 project was to conduct monthly boat surveys of three strata (north, south and offshore, Figure 1) to record marine mammal and seabird sightings data as well as simultaneously collecting cetacean acoustic data. The north survey area overlapped with the areas surveyed previously during Year 1 data collection (Figure 2). Surveys commenced in August 2010, but due to adverse weather conditions and timing of other activity within the site (e.g. a geophysical survey), a survey in every month was not possible.