2013 Natural England Verification Survey of Intertidal Sediments within the Beachy Head West rMCZ
A Natural England commissoined verification survey of intertidal sediments within the Beachy Head West rMCZ.
Phase I Biotope mapping was carried out across the rMCZ for broad scale habitats where intertidal coarse sediment occurred. Phase II Infaunal sampling was carried out to provide information on the benthic infaunal assemblages and particle size distribution of the study sites by means of core sampling. Sediment surface scrapes were obtained for heavy metals and organic contaminants analysis.
The data was used to produce a EUNIS Level 3 boradscale habitat map of the Beachy Head West rMCZ.
Aerial imagery and OS mapping was digitised to produce baseline maps of biotope boundaries. The maps were annotated in the field to identify biotopes and boundaries as well as significant features. In addition, intertidal sediment cores were taken at 6 stations (0.01m2 cores 3 replicates at each station) distributed throughout the Beachy Head West rMCZ, in order to assess the benthic species present, along with an additional sample for Particle Size Analysis. Samples were sieved over a 0.5mm sieve. Sediment scrape samples were also taken at 3 stations for Tributyl tin, heavy metal and organic contaminant analysis. The methods used for data collection and processing followed protocols and standards for biotope mapping and sampling. MEDIN Data Guideline for sediment sampling by grab or core for benthos.
Simple
- Alternate title
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GB003002
- Date (Publication)
- 2013-03-26T00:00:00
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
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Research
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Natural England
enquiries@naturalengland.org enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk
Owner
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Place
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Eastern Channel
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- Theme
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Marine habitat mapping
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EUNIS
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Habitats and biotopes
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Oceanographic geographical features
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- Use limitation
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None
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- Copyright
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Data available under the Natural England and Ordnance Survey Open Government Licence ( http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/copyright/default.aspx)
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
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eng
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- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 2013-03-17T00:00:00
- End date
- 2013-03-18T00:00:00
- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator (EPSG:3857) / 7.4
- Distribution format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
2015
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/access-data/launch-map-viewer/?zoom=18¢er=0.00000,0.00046&layerIds=502&baseLayerId=1&activeFilters=NobwRANghgngpgJwJIBMwC4CsAGATAGjADMBLCAF0VQwBYAOQ0ixAGQHs2BrAVwAdUAzhmABdRmUoIAKnAAe5DGADiAIWzYAzOtxgAviKA EMODnet Seabed Habitats Map Viewer
OGC:WMS
https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_view_maplibrary/wms? gb003002
OGC:WFS
https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_open_maplibrary/wfs? gb003002
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://files.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/data/EMODnetSBHsurvey_GB003002.zip EMODnet Seabed Habitats download
Metadata
- File identifier
- a17fa5bb-c780-479e-ba9f-cff23ef3fd82 XML
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2020-01-15T12:09:41
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Graeme Duncan
Graeme.Duncan@jncc.gov Graeme.Duncan@jncc.gov.uk
Point of contact