BGS Hosted Metadata
University of the South Pacific water quality in the Ba Catchment coastal zone - 2019
Within Pacific Small Island Developing States (Pacific SIDS), the ridge-to-reef (R2R) approach has emerged as a framework for monitoring river connectivity between terrestrial and marine ecosystems. The study measured water quality, including pH and a range of othe physical and chemical properties over 88.40 km of the Ba River in Fiji. The sampling design focused on measuring spatio-temporal variability in pH throughout the sugarcane season (April - August) with three rapid sampling periods (RSP1, 2 & 3) along the Ba River, together with continuous measurement of temperature and pH using stationary data loggers at two locations upstream and downstream of the sugar mill (April to August 2019). Spatial variability in pH and water quality was characterized before (RSP1 and RSP2) and during (RSP3) the sugarcane season. Mean pH measured before the sugarcane crushing season for RSP1 and RSP2 were 8.16 (± 0.49) and 8.20 (± 0.61) respectively. During the sugarcane crushing season (RSP3) mean pH declined by 3.06 units to 6.94 within 42 m downstream of the sugar mill (P < 0.001). The 3.06 unit decline in pH for RSP3 exceeded both the mean diurnal variation in pH of 0.39 and mean seasonal variation in pH of 2.01. This decline in pH could be a potential source of acidification to downstream coastal ecosystems with implications for coral reefs, biodiversity and fishery livelihoods.
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_USP_WaterQuality
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-02-18
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-09-29
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-10-05
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED7142
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role The University of the South Pacific, Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development
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Owner The University of the South Pacific, Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development
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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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INSPIRE themes
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SeaDataNet PDV
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- Vertical spatial coordinates
- Alkalinity, acidity and pH of the water column
- Turbulence in the water column
- Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
- Electrical conductivity of the water column
- Ammonium and ammonia concentration parameters in water bodies
- Salinity of the water column
- Air pressure
- Air temperature
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MEDIN metadata record availability
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Vertical Coverages
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations apply
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Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
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Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Elevation
- Oceans
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Geographic identifier
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South Pacific Ocean
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Begin date
- 2015-09-01
- End date
- 2020-01-01
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
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OGP
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/cd857050-0c6d-3a71-e053-6c86abc08527/ Published dataset - doi:10.5285/cd857050-0c6d-3a71-e053-6c86abc08527
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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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- 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 archival and recipt of DOI.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 5b2a96d983d65221b6adde8e164d722f XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2022-02-18T12:41:00
- Metadata standard name
- MEDIN
- Metadata standard version
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3.1.1
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Oceanographic Data Centre
Polly Hadzibdic
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