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Project
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Clean and Safe Seas Evidence Group
Healthy and Biologically Diverse Evidence Group
Marine Environmental Change Network
Oceans 2025 Theme 10
Productive Seas Evidence Group
Organisation
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Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI)
Associated British Ports (ABP)
Bangor University School of Ocean Sciences
British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC)
British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Channel Coastal Observatory
Countryside Council for Wales (CCW)
English Heritage
Environment Agency, Bristol Head Office,
FRS, Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen
Historic Scotland
Isle of Man Government Laboratory
Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) - Aberdeen Office
Marine and Fisheries Agency
Marine Conservation Society
Meteorological Office, Oceanography
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
Natural England
Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA), Natural Heritage HQ
Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA), Water Management Unit
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)
Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (POL)
Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)/Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory (DML)
Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), Headquaters
Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU)
Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS)
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency
University of Liverpool, School of Biological Sciences
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT)
Monitoring activity rationale
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Alien species
Climate change
Commercial fishing
Dredge disposal
Hazardous substances enrichment
Inapplicable
Litter
Mariculture
Navigation
Nutrient enrichment
Organic enrichment
Unknown
Legislative drivers
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African-Eurasian Waterbirds Agreement
Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act (UK)
Conservation of Seals Act (GB)
Controlled Activities Regulation (Scotland)
EC Bathing Waters Directive
EC Birds Directive
EC Dangerous Substances Directive
EC Environmental Impact Assessment Directive
EC Habitats Directive
EC Nitrate Directive
EC Shellfish Hygiene Directive
EC Shellfish Waters Directive
EC Strategic Environment Assessment Directive
EC Titanium Dioxide Directives
EC Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive
EC Water Framework Directive
EU Common Fisheries Policy
Food and Environment Protection Act (UK)
Inapplicable
London Convention
OSPAR Convention
Protection of Military Remains Act (UK)
Protection of Wrecks Act (UK)
Radioactive Substances Act (UK)
Ramsar Convention
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
Unknown
Water Order (NI)
Wildlife and Countryside Act (GB)
Maximum frequency (at series) level
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second to sub-minute
minute to sub-hour
hour to sub-day
day to sub-week
week to sub-month
month to sub-year
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Duration of monitoring
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>3 years
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>10 years
>20 years
Parameter groups
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Acoustics
Administration and dimensions
Amino acids
Anthropogenic contamination
Atmospheric chemistry
Bacteria and viruses
Biota composition
Birds, mammals and reptiles
Carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus
Carbonate system
Construction and structures
Cryosphere
Currents
Dissolved gases
Fish
Fluxes
Habitat
Hydrocarbons
Isotopes
Metal and metalloid concentrations
Meteorology
Nutrients
Optical properties
Other biological measurements
PCBs and organic micropollutants
Phytoplankton
Pigments
Rate measurements (including production, excretion and grazing)
Rock and sediment biota
Rock and sediment chemistry
Rock and sediment physical properties
Sea level
Sonar and seismics
Suspended particulate material
Terrestrial
Water column temperature and salinity
Waves
Zooplankton
Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
Platform Type
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aeroplane
beach/intertidal zone structure
coastal structure
diver
drifting subsurface profiling float
drifting surface float
fishing vessel
fixed benthic node
helicopter
human
land/onshore structure
moored surface buoy
offshore structure
orbiting satellite
research vessel
satellite
sea bed vehicle
self-propelled boat
self-propelled small boat
ship
subsurface mooring
unknown
vessel at fixed position
vessel of opportunity
vessel of opportunity on fixed route
Programme continuity status
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operational
operational becoming suspended
operational becoming terminated
suspended
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Instrument type
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active fluorometers
benthos samplers
cameras
current meters
current profilers
discrete water samplers
dissolved gas sensors
fluorometers
manual biota samplers
multi-beam echosounders
multi-channel seismic reflection systems
nutrient analysers
observers
optical backscatter sensors
particulates samplers
pelagic trawl nets
plankton counters
plankton nets
plankton recorders
satellite tracking system
scatterometers
sea level recorders
sea temperature sensors
sediment grabs
sediment traps
thermistor chains
underwater cameras
unknown
water temperature and salinity sensors
water temperature sensors
wave recorders
Spatial form
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Sea areas
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Arctic Ocean
Barents Sea
Bay of Biscay
Bristol Channel
Davis Strait
English Channel
Gulf of Alaska
Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland
Irish Sea and St. George's Channel
North Atlantic Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
North Sea
Norwegian Sea
South Atlantic Ocean
South Pacific Ocean
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