BGS Hosted Metadata
CTD oceanographic data from Whittard Canyon, Bay of Biscay (2009)
This dataset consists of 6 CTD profiles from 6 stations in the Whittard Canyon, collected as part of the HERMONIE (Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European seas) and OCEANS 2025 projects. These data were collected aboard the RRS James Cook cruise JC036 (Chief Scientist Douglas Masson), which departed Brest, France, on 19 June 2009 and arrived in Southampton, UK, on 28 July 2009. The biological and geological research programme was built around a series of ROV video transects to determine variations in species and community structure and composition in different geological and topographic settings down the canyon. Additional coring, CTD and water column particulate sampling programmes were planned to investigate the recent geological history of the canyon and investigate sediment accumulation in the canyon. Macro and meiofauna were also sampled in areas of soft substrate. The sensors used for the CTD profiles include temperature, conductivity, pressure, oxygen, fluorescence, altitude, irradiance, backscatter, and attenuance. Data were collected using a ship-deployed Sea-Bird 911plus CTD System mounted with the following equipment: Sea-Bird SBE 3plus (SBE 3P) temperature sensors, Sea-Bird SBE 4C conductivity sensors, Paroscientific Digiquartz depth sensor, Sea-Bird SBE 43 Dissolved Oxygen Sensor, Chelsea Technologies Group Aquatracka III fluorometer, Chelsea Technologies Group 2-pi PAR irradiance sensors, WET Labs {Sea-Bird WETLabs} ECO BB(RT)D backscattering sensor and Chelsea Technologies Group Alphatracka II transmissometer. The CTD data were received by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) having been binned into 2m depth profiles for the downcast. The data have been processed and quality controlled using in-house BODC procedures and are available to download from the BODC website. Funding was provided by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_JC036_CTD_Whittard
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-02-11
- Date (Creation)
- 2024-05-08
- Date (Revision)
- 2026-03-11
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED7348
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Owner British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Originator National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)
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Owner National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)
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Originator British Oceanographic Data Centre
Custodian British Oceanographic Data Centre
Distributor
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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MEDIN metadata record availability
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SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
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- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations apply
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Data are freely available
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- Other restrictions
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No conditions apply
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Oceans
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- Geographic identifier
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Bay of Biscay
SeaVoX water bodies 2025-08-07 revision
- Begin date
- 2009-06-22
- End date
- 2009-07-26
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
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OGP
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Name Version Binary Network Common Data Form Ocean Data View Text or Plaintext
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/bodc_database/nodb/data_collection/7348 CTD oceanographic data from Whittard Canyon, Bay of Biscay (2009)
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- Dataset
Conformance result
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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
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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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.
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- Yes
- Statement
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This dataset was created by the organisations with the "originator" role in this metadata record following their in-house data processing and quality control procedures. The data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for ingestion into the series schema of the National Oceanographic Database (NODB). During ingestion BODC undertake quality control, documentation and metadata enhancement procedures appropriate to the type of data. For an overview please see http://www.bodc.ac.uk/about/information_technology/data_processing_steps/. BODC supply full information about data collection, data processing and data quality with all data requests to enable users to assess data suitability themselves.Instrument (s) used to collect data: fluorometers; water pressure sensors; acoustic backscatter sensors; CTD; transmissometers; water temperature sensor; dissolved gas sensors.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 431c51fd81ce5a3285979fe3cb2668f5 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-03-11T11:24:29
- Metadata standard name
- MEDIN
- Metadata standard version
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3.1.2
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Oceanographic Data Centre
Polly Hadžiabdić
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