MarBEF Data System

Offshore reference stations, Norwegian/Barents Sea

Citation

The Norwegian Oil Industry Association, 2002: Offshore reference stations, Norwegian/Barents Sea. The Norwegian Oil Industry Association (OLF), Akvaplan-niva and Det Norske Veritas, Norway. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/997

Contact: Cochrane, Sabine ; Bakke, Siri Mordal ; Johannessen, Per ; Jarandsen, Bente ; Jensen, Tor

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Archived data

Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Description

The original dataset objective is the sampling of reference stations for large-scale annual surveys of petroleum installations.

Lineage

Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output

Scope

Themes:

Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal · ANE, Norwegian Sea · Benthos · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Macrobenthos · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · PNE, Barents Sea · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Barentsz Sea · Norwegian Sea · Annelida · Crustacea · Echinodermata · Mollusca · Sipunculida · Tunicata

Geographical coverage

Barentsz Sea [Marine Regions]

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 1,6667; MinLat: 58 - MaxLong: 10,7456; MaxLat: 67,5659 [WGS84]

Norwegian Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

1991 - 2001

Taxonomic coverage

Annelida [WoRMS]

Crustacea [WoRMS]

Echinodermata [WoRMS]

Mollusca [WoRMS]

Sipunculida [WoRMS]

Tunicata [WoRMS]

Parameters

Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Granulometric variables
Heavy metals
Total hydrocarbons
Total organic matter (OM)

Contributors

The Norwegian Oil Industry Association (OLF), more, data owner, data creator

Det Norske Veritas (DNV), more, data provider, data creator

Polar Environmental Centre; Akvaplan-niva, more, data provider

Related datasets

Published in:

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more