be026a28-ccd6-4f96-af44-ea236247ee99 eng series The Crown Estate +44 020 7851 5000 16 New Burlington Place London W1S 2HX United Kingdom enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk pointOfContact 2015-05-18 MEDIN Discovery Profile 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::32631 2013, Fugro EMU Ltd., Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm, Year 1 Post Construction Monitoring Benthic Survey 2013-07-09 publication 13/J/1/03/1980/1491 In 2009, EMU Limited (now Fugro EMU Limited) was commissioned the pre-construction survey to inform the application for developing Sheringham Shoal wind farm. The study included assessment of the benthic invertebrate community of the area as well as the presence and extension of any Sabellaria spinulosa reef, an Annex I habitat. The aim of the work was also to establish a baseline repeatable survey to allow the assessment of any change in the benthic community structure potentially attributable to the wind farm construction. As part of the FEPA licence, post-construction environmental monitoring is required during the life of the offshore wind farm. This is fundamental for the understanding of any effect of the development on benthic communities. Accordingly, this report presents results from the post-construction survey carried out in December 2012; these were then formally compared with the results of the pre-construction survey carried out in 2009 (EMU, 2010). This includes comparative assessment of benthic communities, including biotope assessment, and any presence and extent of S. spinulosa aggregations indicated from the pre-construction via drop down video and still images analysis. In the assessment of any temporal epibenthic community and reference site change, reference to the more extensive 2005 survey (Scira Offshore Energy Ltd, 2006), and interim S. spinulosa assessment reports has been made. Statkraft UK Ltd +44 (0)20 7448 8200 +44(0)20 7448 8241 41 Moorgate London EC2R 6PP United Kingdom uk-post@statkraft.com http://www.statkraft.com/ custodian Fugro EMU Limited +44 (0) 1489 860050 1 Mill Court The Sawmills Durley Southampton Hampshire SO32 2EJ United Kingdom contact@fugroemu.com http://www.fugroemu.com/ originator notPlanned Renewable Energy Lease area The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Areas 2012-05-15 revision 1 Post-Construction monitoring The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Phases 2012-05-15 revision 1 Benthic Habitat Global Change Master Directory Science Keyword variables 2007-04-18 revision 4 Grab SeaDataNet Cruise Summary Report data categories 2011-12-09 revision 3 Video survey MEDIN Data Guidelines 2012-05-01 revision 3 beam trawls SeaDataNet device categories 2015-02-12 revision 49 Fauna Oregon Coastal Atlas Coastal Erosion Thesaurus discovery terms 2011-08-20 revision 1 Habitats and biotopes GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2009-07-31 revision 1 Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Marine Environmental Data and Information Network http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx copyright otherRestrictions copyright otherRestrictions http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx eng environment 0.828491 1.231625 52.948708 53.182847 2012-12-14 2012-12-18 http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/search?q=#fq=fq%3DProject%253Amde1r2ss6640 download https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/1984/summary A link to the web service or dataset. https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk A link to the general host site. series This metadata file has been created by The Crown Estate for the purpose of pubilshing this to the MDE.