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dc.contributor.authorO'Beirn, Francis X
dc.contributor.authorO'Donnell, Garvan
dc.contributor.authorHealy, Louise
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-15T19:56:26Z
dc.date.available2021-07-15T19:56:26Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationO'Beirn, F.X, O'Donnel, G, and Healy, L. (2018). Environmental Survey of Coastal and Shelf Waters – Southabout: Winter nutrients, benthos and contaminants monitoring 2018 (CV18-001). Marine Institute, Irelanden_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10793/1695
dc.description.abstractThe 2018 survey continues the Marine Institute’s Winter Nutrients monitoring that commenced in 1990/91. The survey has evolved and expanded during this time period with respect to target areas, parameters and sampling strategy. In 2011 this survey was re-established as a winter environmental survey with a broader remit to provide supporting information for OSPAR and Water Framework Directive (WFD - Directive 2000/60/EC) assessments and also to maintain the winter time series on key biogeochemical parameters in Irish waters in response to pressures such as land based inputs of nutrients and climate change. Since 2011 the survey circumnavigates the Island of Ireland every 2 years, alternating southabout (odd years) and northabout (even years), starting in the Irish Sea and ending in Galway. This provides a complete coverage of Ireland’s coastal waters over 2-year periods. However, given the timing of the surveys, winter by necessity to ensure minimal biological activity and therefore highest concentrations of dissolved nutrients, the weather is a significant factor in determining the actual as opposed to planned coverage of the target stations. This work is complementary to inshore water quality monitoring activities of the Irish Environmental Protection Agency and Marine Institute and the annual offshore oceanographic survey/climate section (53N/Rockall Trough) on the Celtic Explorer led by the Oceanographic Science Services group at the Marine Institute. As in previous years, the 2018 survey was designed to collect multidisciplinary information on physical conditions, water chemistry (dissolved nutrients, total alkalinity (TA), dissolved organic carbon (DIC), salinity), sediment chemistry (persistent organic pollutants POPs and trace metals), sediment particle size distribution and benthic macroinvertebrates (at targeted waterbodies around the coast). This contributes to data collection needs of various statutory drivers (WFD and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) - Directive 2008/56/EC) as well as providing a research dataset on status and changing conditions (trends and variations) for key environmental variables.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMarine Instituteen_US
dc.subjectWFDen_US
dc.subjectCruise Reporten_US
dc.subjectCV18001en_US
dc.subjectWinter Environmental Surveyen_US
dc.subjectBenthos Monitoringen_US
dc.subjectNutrientsen_US
dc.subjectCeltic Voygaeren_US
dc.subjectCTDen_US
dc.subjectPSAen_US
dc.subjectMacroinvertebrate samplingen_US
dc.subjectChemistryen_US
dc.titleEnvironmental Survey of Coastal and Shelf Waters – Southabout: Winter nutrients, benthos and contaminants monitoring 2018 (CV18-001)en_US
dc.title.alternativeCV18001en_US
dc.typeTechnical Reporten_US
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