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Data inventories

At present the dataset inventories for the Western Channel Observatory (on-going) and the Benthic Survey (2008 - 2011) are provided below, if you would like access to these data or should you require information concerning other datasets from the PML data set inventory, please contact our Enquiries officer.

Western Channel Observatory Data Inventory

L4 = L4 Hydrographic station (50.2500 N, 4.2167 W)

E1 = E1 Hydrographic station (50.0333 N, 4.3667 W)

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 - 2014

 

2008 - 2014

 

RV Plymouth Quest surface underway measurements (navigation, temperature, salinity, fluorometer, dissolved oxygen and meteorology) James Fishwick

L4

E1

2009

2009

2009 - 2014

2009 - 2014

 

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

1988 - 2013

1988 - 2013

2014 received

2014 received

Bio-optics - photosynthetic activity profiles (CTG FRRF) James Fishwick

L4

E1

2003

2003

2003 - 2008

2003 - 2008

Instrument not deployed since late 2008

Bio-optics - absorbance and attenuance profiles (Wetlabs AC9+) Victor Martinez-Vicente

L4

E1

2003

2003

2003 - 2013

2007 - 2013

 

2003 -2006 pending

Bio-optics - optical backscatter profiles (Hobilabs BB6) Victor Martinez-Vicente

L4

E1

2003

2003

2003 - 2013

2007 - 2013

 

2003 -2006 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
 
Nutrients - ammonium, nitrate, nitrite, phosphate, silicate Malcolm Woodward

L4

E1

2000

2002

2000 - 2013

2002 - 2013

2014 received

2014 received

Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) absorbance spectra Gavin Tilstone
L4
2002
2002 - 2008
2009 - 2013 pending
Primary production from 14C uptake incubations Gavin Tilstone    L4        2002
2002 - 2012
2013 - 2014 pending
Phytoplankton absorbtion spectra (PABS) Gavin Tilstone    L4        2002
2002 - 2013 pending
Suspended Particulate Material (SPM) Peter Land
L4
2002
2002 - 2009
 
Suspended Particulate Material (SPM) Denise Cummings    L4        2010         None 2010 - 2013 pending
Organic carbon and nitrogen (CHN analysis) Denise Cummings
L4
1988
1988 - 2014
 
Extracted chlorophyll-a (fluorometry) Denise Cummings
L4
1988
1988 - 2014
 
Photosynthetic pigments (HPLC) Ruth Airs

L4

E1

1999

2002

2014 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
2014 received
Phyto- and microzooplankon taxonomy and abundance (light microscopy) Claire Widdicombe
L4
1992
1992 - 2014

Request by email

Zooplankton taxonomy and abundance (light microscopy) Angus Atkinson
L4
1988
1988 - 2014

Request by email

Calanus egg production Angus Atkinson
L4
1988
2013 - 2014 pending

 

Benthic Survey Data Inventory

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)

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

 

2008

 

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

 

2008

 

None

Submission pending

CTD profiles James Fishwick JC CS RM L4

 

2008

 

None

Submission pending

Chlorophyll-a (CTD bottles) Andy Rees JC CS RM L4

 

2008

 

 

Denitrification and nitrification (box core sample incubation) Vas Kitidis JC CS RM L4

 

2008

 

None

Submission pending

Megafauna (naturalist trawl) Sarah Dashfield L4
2008
 
Macrofauna (box core) Sarah Dashfield JC CS RM L4 ED

2008

 

 

Meiofauna (box core) Sarah Dashfield JC CS RM L4 ED

2007

 

None

Submission pending
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

 

 

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

 

Primary production (incubation) Andy Rees JC CS RM L4

2008

 

SPM (CTD bottles) Carolyn Harris
JC CS RM L4

2009

None

Submission pending

Sediment RedOx (box core) Sarah Dashfield

JC CS RM L4

2010

 

 

Sediment critical sheer stress and velocity (box core) Carolyn Harris

JC CS RM L4

2009

 

None

Submission pending

Sediment nutrient flux experimental nutrient concentrations (multi/box core) Amanda Beesley
JC CS RM L4

2008

 

Sediment nutrient flux calculated rates (multi/box core) Amanda Beesley JC CS RM L4

2008

 
Steroids and Hydrocarbons in the sediment (box core) Trish Frickers

JC CS RM L4

 

2010

None

Submission pending

 
Plymouth Marine Laboratory