Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)
Data inventories
Rob Thomas, the BODC Laboratory Liaison Officer (LLO) for PML, undertakes regular visits to ensure that data collected by PML can be identified. This enables them to be gathered, properly managed and curated for long term use by the public. An inventory of this information is maintained in a relational database.
Our web team is currently working to make this information available online. When implemented, this page will allow the display of data sets associated with a particular project, collection activity, Principal Investigator, or expected date of submission. It will also indicate whether the data have been received by BODC.
A search form will allow you to display information according to your own criteria. In the first instance, the display will be limited to data sets from PML. However due to the coordinated approach to marine science, encouraging cross-disciplinary partnership research, you will also have an option to search on data set information from other centres.
At present the dataset inventories for the Western Channel Observatory and the Benthic Survey are provided below, if you would like access to these daa or should you require information concerning other datasets from the PML data set inventory, please contact Rob Thomas, who will be happy to assist you.
Western Channel Observatory Data Inventory |
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L4 = L4 Hydrographic station (50.2500 N, 4.2167 W) E1 = E1 Hydrographic station (50.0333 N, 4.3667 W) |
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| Dataset Title | Current contact | Site |
Collection started |
Submitted to BODC |
Comments |
| Meteorology - wind speed & direction, air temperature & pressure, PAR irradiance and sea surface hydrography - temperature, salinity, oxygen, fluorescence, turbidity, nitrate and CDOM (moorings) | James Fishwick | L4
E1 |
2009
2008 |
2008 - 2010
2008 - 2010 |
2011 - 2012 pending 2011 - 2012 pending |
| RV Plymouth Quest surface underway measurements (navigation, temperature, salinity, fluorometer, dissolved oxygen and meteorology) | James Fishwick | L4 E1 |
2009 2009 |
None None |
Pending Pending |
| RV Plymouth Quest surface pCO2 measurements | Vasilis Kitidis | L4 |
2005 |
2005 & 2007 - 2009 |
Instrument not deployed since late 2009 |
| Temperature, salinity, fluorescence, transmission, oxygen and downwelling PAR irradiance profiles (CTD) | James Fishwick | L4 E1 |
1988 1988 |
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| Bio-optics - photosynthetic activity profiles (CTG FRRF) | James Fishwick | L4 E1 |
2003 2003 |
None None |
Pending Pending |
| Bio-optics - absorbance and attenuance profiles (Wetlabs AC9+) | Victor Martinez-Vicente | L4
E1 |
2003
2003 |
2003 - 2007 & 2011 -2012 2011 -2012 |
2008 - 2010 pending 2003 - 2010 pending |
| Bio-optics - optical backscatter profiles (Hobilabs BB6) | Victor Martinez-Vicente | L4 E1 |
2003 2003 |
None None |
Pending Pending |
| Bio-optics - volume scatter function profiles (Wetlabs ECO VSF) | Victor Martinez-Vicente | L4
E1 |
2003
2003 |
2003 - 2007 & 2011 -2012 2011 -2012 |
2008 - 2010 pending 2003 - 2010 pending |
| Temperature, salinity and nutrients - nitrate, phosphate, silicate | Tim Smyth | E1 |
1934 |
1934 - 1985 |
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| Nutrients - ammonium, nitrate, nitrite, phosphate, silicate | Malcolm Woodward | L4 E1 |
2000 2002 |
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| Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) absorbance spectra | Gavin Tilstone | L4 |
2002 |
2002 - 2008 |
2009 - 2012 pending |
| Suspended Particulate Material (SPM) | Peter Land | L4 |
2002 |
2002 - 2009 |
2010 - 2012 pending |
| Organic carbon and nitrogen (CHN analysis) | Denise Cummings | L4 |
1988 |
1988 - 2009 |
2010 - 2012 pending |
| Extracted chlorophyll-a (fluorometry) | Denise Cummings | L4 |
1988 |
1988 - 2009 |
2010 - 2012 pending |
| Photosynthetic pigments (HPLC) | Victor Martinez-Vicente | L4
E1 |
1998
2002 |
1998 - 2010
2002 - 2005 2008 - 2009 |
2011 - 2012 pending 2006 - 2007 & 2010 - 2012 pending |
| Photosynthetic pigment absorbance spectra (PABS) | Victor Martinez-Vicente | L4 E1 |
2007 2007 |
None None |
Pending Pending |
| Phytoplankton community structure and abundance (AFC) | Glen Tarran | L4 |
2007 |
2007 - 2012 |
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| Phytoplankon taxonomy and abundance (light microscopy) | Claire Widdicombe | L4 |
1992 |
1992 - 2010 |
2011 - 2012 pending |
| Microzooplankon taxonomy and abundance (light microscopy) | Claire Widdicombe | L4 |
1992 |
1992 - 2010 |
2011 - 2012 pending |
| Zooplankton taxonomy and abundance (light microscopy) | Angus Atkinson | L4 |
1988 |
1988 - 2012 |
Request by email |
| Calanus egg production | Angus Atkinson | L4 |
1988 |
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Benthic Survey Data Inventory |
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JC = Jennycliff (50.3485 N, 4.1285 W) CS = Cawsand (50.3302 N, 4.1917 W) RM = Rame mud (50.2958 N, 4.2667 W) L4 = L4 Hydrographic station (50.2500 N, 4.2167 W) ED = Eddystone (50.1923 N, 4.2815 W) |
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| Dataset Title | Current contact | Sites |
Collection started |
Submitted to BODC |
Comments |
| Alkalinity (CTD bottles) | Amanda Beesley | JC CS RM L4 | 2008 |
None |
Submission pending |
| Bed sediment bulk composition by grain size (box core) | Carolyn Harris | JC CS RM L4
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2008
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None |
Submission pending |
| Bed sediment surface 2cm composition by grain size (box core) | Carolyn Harris | JC CS RM L4 | 2008 |
None |
Submission pending |
| CHN (box core) | Denise Cummings | JC CS RM L4
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2008
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None |
Submission pending |
| CTD profiles | James Fishwick | JC CS RM L4
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2008
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None |
Submission pending |
| Chlorophyll-a (CTD bottles) | Andy Rees | JC CS RM L4
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2008
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2008 - 2011 |
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| Denitrification and nitrification (box core sample incubation) | Vas Kitidis | JC CS RM L4
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2008
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None |
Submission pending |
| Macrofauna and meiofauna - (box core) | Sarah Dashfield | JC CS RM L4 ED | 2007
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| Macrofauna reproductive stage from histology (box core) | Christine Pascoe | JC CS RM L4 | 2008 |
None |
Submission pending |
| Microbial diversity - (multicore) | Karen Tait | JC CS RM L4 ED |
2008
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| Nitrification (box core sample incubation) | Denise Cummings | JC CS RM L4 | 2008 |
None |
Submission pending |
| Nutrients (CTD bottles) | Malcolm Woodward | JC CS RM L4 | 2008 |
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| Primary production (incubation) | Andy Rees | JC CS RM L4 | 2008 |
2008 - 2011 |
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| SPM (CTD bottles) | Carolyn Harris | JC CS RM L4 |
2009 |
None |
Submission pending |
| Sediment RedOx (box core) | Sarah Dashfield | JC CS RM L4 |
2010
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| Sediment critical sheer stress and velocity (box core) | Carolyn Harris | JC CS RM L4 |
2009
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None |
Submission pending |
| Sediment nutrient flux (multi/box core) | Amanda Beesley | JC CS RM L4 |
2008 |
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| Steroids and Hydrocarbons in the sediment (box core) | Trish Frickers | JC CS RM L4
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2010 |
None |
Submission pending |
Related PML liaison pages at BODC
| Introduction | Data delivery | |
| BODC's role | Other links | |
| Data submission |
Related external links
| Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) |
