Sherkin Island Marine Station Phytoplankton Records from the Southwest Coast of Ireland. Series 1: Long-term data series from Roaringwater Bay/Long Island Bay and South of Sherkin Island, Co Cork 1980-2014

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by National Biodiversity Data Centre on Aug 29, 2023 National Biodiversity Data Centre
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https://sherkinmarinedata.ie/planktonseries/
Publication date:
29 August 2023
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

The dataset presented here is from the long-term monitoring of phytoplankton at 12 coastal water positions (stations) in south-west Ireland: Eight within Roaringwater Bay/Long Island Bay, and four from 1.5 km to 17.5 km offshore in open waters south of Sherkin Island, Co. Cork. Stations were visited approximately every 12 days from April to October each year, within a period from 1980-2014. Water samples were taken at set depths for each station and phytoplankton counts were recorded. Where water depth allowed, stations were usually sampled at the following depths: 0m, 2.5m, 5m, 10m, 15m, 20m, 25m, 30m, and 50m, ranging from a maximum depth of 5m in three stations to a depth of 50m in four stations. An additional depth of 7.5m was sampled at one station. The dataset includes standardized phytoplankton counts together with recorded location, date, water depth, water temperature, salinity, conductivity, Secchi disc estimate, tide height at time of sampling, sea conditions and weather conditions. Standard air temperature records from the manual weather station at Sherkin Island Marine Station covering the same time period, together with records from the automated weather station from 2004, offer comparisons with the marine records for climate-related studies (available from Met Éireann : The Irish Meteorological Service (online) c. 2023 [accessed 2023 July 17] https://www.met.ie/climate/available-data/historical-data).

Data Records

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How to cite

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Sherkin Island Marine Station (2023). Sherkin Island Marine Station Phytoplankton Records from the Southwest Coast of Ireland. Series 1: Long-term data series from Roaringwater Bay/Long Island Bay and South of Sherkin Island, Co Cork 1980-2014. Version 1.0. National Biodiversity Data Centre. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=sherkinislandmarinestationphytoplanktonrecordsseries1&v=1.0

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Biodiversity Data Centre. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: df85c357-d4ec-415e-b108-890f7e699e78.  National Biodiversity Data Centre publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by National Biodiversity Data Centre.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Sherkin Island Marine Station
  • Originator
  • Point of Contact
Sherkin Island Marine Station
  • Sherkin Island
Co Cork
IE
Matt Murphy
  • Point Of Contact
  • Originator
Sherkin Island Marine Station
  • Sherkin Island
Co Cork
IE
Michelle Judge
  • Publisher
  • Data Manager
National Biodiversity Data Centre
  • Beechfield House, SETU West Campus
Carriganore
Waterford
IE

Geographic Coverage

The programme covered 12 stations, eight within Roaringwater Bay/Long Island Bay, and four from 1.5 km to 17.5 km offshore in open water south of Sherkin Island, Co Cork, Ireland.

Bounding Coordinates South West [47.517, -15.469], North East [56.945, 0]

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers df85c357-d4ec-415e-b108-890f7e699e78
https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=sherkinislandmarinestationphytoplanktonrecordsseries1