Date (Publication)

2006-04-01

Citation identifier

British Geological Survey / BGS_SEA_100

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey (BGS)	Paul Henni	offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk	Custodian
Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)		enquiries@decc.gsi.gov.uk	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency

Not planned

Resource format

Name	Version
Documents

Keywords

• NDGO0001

SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary

• Cetacean behaviour
• Cetacean morphology and physiology
• Cetacean abundance
• Seal behaviour
• Seal morphology and physiology
• Seal abundance

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Species distribution

SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages

• crust
• sediment

Use limitation

The SEAs data were produced as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme; Crown Copyright, all rights reserved. The DECC SEA must be acknowledged in any maps or publications that make use of the data. All the data files are freely available to the public. The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal provides free access to available data and reports which have been produced through the SEA process. The site is run and managed by BGS on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Many files can be downloaded directly from this website. Those that are too large to download can be ordered via the website for postal delivery from BGS. BGS (NERC) has been contracted by DECC to publish SEA datasets on its behalf. All intellectual property rights (including , without limitation, copyrights, database rights and all other rights which subsist or may at any time in the future subsist in the Dataset(s)) in the Dataset(s) ('Intellectual Property Rights') are owned by DECC (formerly the Department of Trade and Industry, and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform). BGS has been authorised by DECC to use SEA datasets for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit basis'. BGS has been authorised by DECC to pass on SEA datasets to third parties so that they can use them for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit' basis.

Access constraints

Intellectual property rights

Distance

5  m

Language

English

Topic category

• Biota
• Environment
• Oceans

Title

SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer

Date (Revision)

2006-01-01

Code

North Atlantic Ocean

Begin date

2006-01-01

End date

2006-01-01

Supplemental Information

http://www.offshore-sea.org.uk/site/index.php

Reference system identifier

OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

This report was prepared by the Sea Mammal Research Unit as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme. Quantitative abundance is limited to areas of overlap with the NASS surveys, conducted in North Atlantic waters by Iceland, the Faroes and Norway. The most recent NASS survey (2001) was denied access to UK waters, so there are no recent abundance estimates available for these waters. The NASS-95 survey resulted in estimates of some of the large whale species that may be relevant to this area. Relative abundance data are available from platform of opportunity sightings data (see Reid et al., 2003), as well as some small-scale coastal survey work conducted by organisations such as the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT).

Metadata

File identifier

aba64100-c158-4de3-e044-0003ba6f30bd XML

Metadata language

English

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2011-08-30

Metadata standard name

MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard

Metadata standard version

Version 2.3.5

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey (BGS)	Mary Mowat	offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact