Resources

The Impacts of Deglaciation on Benthic Marine Ecosystems in Antarctica (ICEBERGS) Dataset (2017-2021)

Data set information

| Query EDMED |     

General  
Data holding centreBritish Oceanographic Data Centre
CountryUnited Kingdom  United Kingdom
Time period01 September 2017 to present (scheduled end date 30 June 2021)
OngoingYes
Observations 
Parameters

Fauna abundance per unit area of the bed; Bathymetry and Elevation; Seabed photography; Phytoplankton generic abundance in water bodies; Salinity of the water column; Temperature of the water column; Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column; Electrical conductivity of the water column

Description 
Summary

The Impacts of Deglaciation on Benthic Marine Ecosystems in Antarctica (ICEBERGS) dataset comprises of physical oceanography, marine geology, habitat mapping, community structure and seabed sediment data. The data were collected from CTD deployments, multi-beam swath bathymetry surveys, TOPAS sub-bottom profiling, shallow underwater camera system deployments, plankton net deployments, Agassiz trawls, Hamon grabs and multi-corer deployments during three seasonal cruises around the West Antarctic Peninsula beginning 2017 and scheduled to end in 2021. The data were collected as part of the ICEBERGS project to investigate the impacts of physical disturbance arising from climate-warming induced deglaciation on benthic communities around the West Antarctic Peninsula. The ICEBERGS project is part of the joint funded NERC-CONICYT Initiative and involves collaboration between the University of Exeter, University of Bangor, British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción. The physical data will be managed by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) with the remainder of the data being submitted to the Polar Data Centre (BAS-PDC).

OriginatorsUniversity of Exeter Department of Geography
Data web sitehttps://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/d9633a6c-d27e-30b4-e053-6c86abc07104/
Availability 
OrganisationBritish Oceanographic Data Centre
AvailabilityLicence
ContactPolly Hadžiabdić (Head of the BODC Requests Team)
Address

British Oceanographic Data Centre
Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street
Liverpool
Merseyside
L3 5DA
United Kingdom

Telephone+44 (0)782 512 0946
Facsimile+44 (0)151 795 4912
Emailenquiries@bodc.ac.uk
Administration 
Collating centreBritish Oceanographic Data Centre
Local identifier1048_ICEBERGS
Global identifier6814
Last revised2022-08-18