MarBEF Data System

Offshore ref. stations, North/Norwegian sea

Citation

The Norwegian Oil Industry Association, 2001: Offshore reference stations, North/Norwegian sea. The Norwegian Oil Industry Association (OLF), Akvaplan-niva and Det Norske Veritas, Norway. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/999

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

Access data

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, North Sea · 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 · North Sea · Norwegian Sea · Annelida · Crustacea · Echinodermata · Mollusca · Sipunculida · Tunicata

Geographical coverage

Barentsz Sea [Marine Regions]

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 2,485; MinLat: 56,0419 - MaxLong: 4,5217; MaxLat: 57,8654 [WGS84]

North Sea [Marine Regions]

Norwegian Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

1990 - 2002

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

Jarandsen, Bente

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

Bakke, Siri Mordal
Jensen, Tor

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

Cochrane, Sabine

Johannessen, Per

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