Across Wales Diving Monitoring Project (2004)

The initial 2 year project was a developmental trial for establishing (i) Methods, (ii) Recording protocols. (iii) Deployment strategies, (iv) Repeatability, (v) Site marking and relocation, (vi) Quality Control for site monitoring. Following on from the initial 2 year project a longer-term project has been established to gather data in order to assess the Special Area of Conservation (SAC) sites for their \favourable conservation status\". The concept of favourable conservation status is central to the EC Habitats Directive. These SAC sites included five marine Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) around the Welsh coast though only four of these (Menai Strait and Conwy Bay; Pen Llyn a'r Sarnau; Cardigan Bay; and Pembrokeshire Marine) have 'reefs' listed as Annex I 'features'. An ongoing programme of monitoring the reefs in each of these SACs follows the establishment programme."

Identifier: NRW_DS109743

Alternative Title

2004 CCW/Pelagial/Sea-Scope Cardigan Bay cSAC sublittoral monitoring survey MRCCW3010000000B
Prosiect Gwaith Monitro Deifio ar draws Cymru

Metadata Language: English

Lineage: A variety of methodologies has been designed for monitoring subtidal reef across the SACs, these include diver quadrats and transects, capture of information on images and digital video and the collection of data from loggers. Detailed information about each of the methodologies can be found in the draft CCW Marine Monitoring Report 25b \Across Wales Diving Monitoring Project Volume 2: Standard operating procedures\". CCW undertook a programme of surveillance on the Pen Llyn a'r Sarnau SAC between 1997 and 2001. These monitoring trials formed the basis of the Terms of Reference for this programme. Further information can be found in the Marine Monitoring Handbook (Davie et al. 2001). Metadata for repeatable sites is described seperately. An unrepeated groud-truthing survey was also completed for Cardigan Bay in 2004 in conjunction with the 2004-2005 Across Wales drop-down video survey. Information about the survey can be found in the CCW Marine Monitoring Report 25a \"Across Wales Diving Monitoring Project Volume 1: Site descriptions and results\"."

Dataset Reference Date (Publication): 2006-03-31

Temporal Extent

Begin date: 2004-05-17

End date: 2006-03-31

Topic category

Oceans
Biota

Owner

Natural Resources Wales (NRW)

Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales

http://naturalresources.wales/?lang=en

Originator

Pelagial Ltd

Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, E14 0JW

http://www.pelagial.org/

Originator

Marine Ecological Solutions Ltd

Marine Ecological Solutions Ltd, 41 High Street, Menai Bridge, Ynys Mon, LL59 5EF, Wales

http://www.marine-ecosol.co.uk

Originator

Countryside Council for Wales (CCW)

Countryside Council for Wales, Maes y Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW

http://naturalresourceswales.gov.uk/splash?orig=/

Originator

Sea-Scope, Marine Biological Consultants

Combe Lodge, Bampton, Devon, EX16 9LB, England

Extent

Geographic Extent: Wales (WLS)

Vertical Extent

Medin Extent Keyword: water column

Vertical Extent

Minimum value (metres): 2

Maximum value (metres): -35

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Format Type and Description

Documents ( )

Specification

[A] A draft and final copy of the report are held as a Word Document. [B] Information about the sites and fieldwork is maintained in word and pdf documents. This includes Site description and relocation sheets, Site visit log, Data summary sheets, Image log. [C] Data is held as digital videos and hard copies on mini DV tapes. [D] Still images as JPGS, RAW files and TIFF files [E] Temperature data as ASCII & BIN files or excel - Quadrat data (spreadsheets & Marine Recorder) - Extent (spreadsheets) - Species data, e.g. fish/sponge (spreadsheets & marine Recorder) - Specimen collection - where do these end up. Algae (in CCW herbarium, sheets scanned) - Parazoanthus images (georectified and counted ) - Marine Recorder survey (MRCCW30200000014) - Processed data - PRIMER data - Stitched together Modiolus quadrats.

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Quality Scope: Dataset

Conformity: 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
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Lineage: A variety of methodologies has been designed for monitoring subtidal reef across the SACs, these include diver quadrats and transects, capture of information on images and digital video and the collection of data from loggers. Detailed information about each of the methodologies can be found in the draft CCW Marine Monitoring Report 25b \Across Wales Diving Monitoring Project Volume 2: Standard operating procedures\". CCW undertook a programme of surveillance on the Pen Llyn a'r Sarnau SAC between 1997 and 2001. These monitoring trials formed the basis of the Terms of Reference for this programme. Further information can be found in the Marine Monitoring Handbook (Davie et al. 2001). Metadata for repeatable sites is described seperately. An unrepeated groud-truthing survey was also completed for Cardigan Bay in 2004 in conjunction with the 2004-2005 Across Wales drop-down video survey. Information about the survey can be found in the CCW Marine Monitoring Report 25a \"Across Wales Diving Monitoring Project Volume 1: Site descriptions and results\"."

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Special Area of Conservation Monitoring
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Habitats and Species Directive
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Other constraints: © CNC/NRW 2006. Data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence providing it is done so, acknowledging both the source and copyright of the owners. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose.

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Metadata Language: English

Resource type: Dataset

Metadata Date: 2024-12-13T14:19:56.597Z

Metadata Standard Name: NRW

Metadata Standard Version: 1.0

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Natural Resources Wales (NRW)

Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales

http://naturalresources.wales/?lang=en

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