BGS Hosted Metadata
Hazardous chemicals in cetaceans obtained from existing data and post-mortem examinations on stranded cetaceans in the UK (1991 - 2020)
These datasets contain chemical analysis data from stranded cetaceans, generated as part of the ChemPop NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) grant (NE/S000100/1) Marine Work Package. The stranded cetaceans were located along the UK coastline, from July 1991 to December 2020. The datasets include variables relating to where and when the animal stranded (National_Reference, Species, Date stranded, Latitude, Longitude, Location). The data also include variables that were collected during post-mortem (PM) examination (Sex, Length, Age Group, Condition at PM, Cause of Death Category, Cause of Death Class, Body Weight, Girth, Dorsal blubber thickness, Lateral blubber thickness and Ventral blubber thickness). The variable 'Tissue' is included to state which tissue underwent chemical analysis. 80 harbour porpoises and 83 common dolphins were analysed in total. For harbour porpoises, there are variables for each of the trace elements, determined by Cefas (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science), using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). For the trace element data, there is also a variable for Total Solids so the metal concentrations can be converted from a wet weight to a dry weight. For common dolphins, there are variables for each of the 25 PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) congeners, determined by Cefas, using gas-chromatography electron capture detection (GC-ECD). For the PCB data there is also a variable on lipid percentage as the sum. These data were collected with the aim to determine the burdens and impacts of hazardous chemicals on cetaceans. The data were collected as part of the collaborative UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP), which has been running since 1990, funded by Defra and the Devolved Administrations.
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_ChemPop_stranded_cetaceans
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-02-11
- Date (Creation)
- 2024-11-27
- Date (Revision)
- 2026-03-13
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED7368
- 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 Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Edinburgh)
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Owner Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Edinburgh)
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Originator Zoological Society of London, Institute of Zoology
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Owner Zoological Society of London, Institute of Zoology
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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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SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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MEDIN metadata record availability
- 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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- Environment
- Biota
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- Geographic identifier
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North Atlantic Ocean
SeaVoX water bodies 2025-08-07 revision
- Geographic identifier
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English Channel
SeaVoX water bodies 2025-08-07 revision
- Begin date
- 1991-07-18
- End date
- 2020-12-08
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
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OGP
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Name Version Delimited
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/ BODC's published library catalogue search interface
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/2e698a2f-a288-70a5-e063-7086abc072aa/ Published dataset - doi:10.5285/2e698a2f-a288-70a5-e063-7086abc072aa
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/4a2a78f7-2cca-27e1-e063-7086abc079da/ Published dataset - doi:10.5285/4a2a78f7-2cca-27e1-e063-7086abc079da
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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
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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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- 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 long-term archive and data publication in the BODC Published Data Library.Instrument(s) used to collect data: gas chromatographs; inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometers.
Metadata
- File identifier
- eb8242331d39553cbac745875a73ea0b XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-03-13T17:41:29
- 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
Point of contact
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