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CE0915 National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) SurveyMarine InstituteEnvironmentThis survey, led by National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Ireland, was carried out in September 2009 on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Explorer in the North East Atlantic Ocean to test the Marine Institute's Remote Operated Vehicle [ie. ROV]. Test the...
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The Scheme Reports Groundwater Protection map provides links to county based reports. A groundwater protection scheme has land surface zone map(s) and groundwater protection responses for potentially polluting activities e.g., landfill, land spreading and septic tanks. The...
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In the southwest of Ireland and the Celtic Sea (ICES divisions: 7j-g and 7aS), herring are an important commercial species to the pelagic and polyvalent fleet. Acoustic surveys are currently are the only tuning indices available for this stock. Since 2004 the survey has been...
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EnvironmentThis oceanographic survey, led by the Marine Institute, was conducted from 26th January - 2nd February 2006 on board the R.V. Celtic Explorer. The focus area was the Porcupine Bank in the North East Atlantic Ocean. Standard oceanographic research data collection to ascertain...
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Minerals are naturally occurring; they are not made by humans. They are inorganic in that they have never been alive and are not made up from plants or animals. They are solid, not liquids (like water), or gases (like the air around you). Each one is made of a particular mix...
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In the southwest of Ireland and the Celtic Sea (ICES divisions: 7j-g and 7aS), herring are an important commercial species to the pelagic and polyvalent fleet. Acoustic surveys are currently are the only tuning indices available for this stock. Since 2004 the survey has been...
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The INtegrated Mapping FOr the Sustainable Development of Ireland's MArine Resource (INFOMAR) programme is a joint venture between the Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI) and the Marine Institute (MI). The programme is the successor to the Irish National Seabed Survey (INSS)...
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This map shows the areas where sub-bottom profile data is available in Irish waters. Sub-bottom profile data shows the rock features and the sediment layers that are below the seabed. A sub-bottom profile is created by sending sound waves from the vessel to the seabed. The...
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Public Water Supplies (PWSs) are managed by Irish Water, Ireland's national water utility, since 2013. Before this, public water supplies were managed by Local Authorities. More than 70% of public supplies take groundwater from boreholes, springs and infiltration galleries....
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This research survey took place in June 2005 on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Explorer, led by National University of Ireland, Galway. This was a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Survey in the North East Atlantic Ocean. Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD)...
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In terms of time scale in geology, Quaternary is the present-day time and it began 2.6 million years ago. A lot of this time period relates to the Ice Age. Quaternary Geomorphology shows features left on the earth’s surface during this time. Glaciers and ice sheets, which are...
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EnvironmentThis survey, led by University College Dublin (UCD), took place in July 2014 on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Explorer in the North East Atlantic Ocean. Originally there had been three objectives for SORBEH; 1) Lithological characterisation of the Eastern...
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Bedrock is the solid rock at or below the land surface. Over much of Ireland, the bedrock is covered by materials such as soil and gravel. The Bedrock map shows what the land surface of Ireland would be made up of if these materials were removed. As the bedrock is commonly...
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Streams are important parts of our ecosystem and crucial water sources. Knowing composition of stream waters helps to understand where it came from and how it can be used. Geochemists test stream water samples using different methods to see the spread of elements and ions...
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EnvironmentThis survey took place on board the R.V. Celtic Explorer in 2009 in Galway Bay using the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Latis.
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Census and fecundity data from the captive and wild-bred Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) populat...Marine InstituteEnvironmentThe Marine Institute (formerly the Salmon Research Agency of Ireland and the Salmon Research Trust) operate permanent complete fish traps in the Burrishoole catchment, Co. Mayo, Ireland, as part of a program of long term ecological research (LTER). Data has been collected...
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A borehole is any hole drilled or dug into the ground. The hole is usually deep, narrow and round. The material (soil and or rock) from the hole is collected and tested in a laboratory to find out the structure and type of the soil and or rock beneath the ground. A borehole...
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The main focus of this pilot survey was to acoustically survey orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus) spawning aggregations. Orange roughy, a highly commercial species, are an extremely slow growing species, with a longevity estimated at well over 100 and have low...
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Historical Atlantic salmon pedigree for the Burrishoole catchment, Co. Mayo, and associated quant...University College CorkEnvironmentThe Marine Institute (formerly the Salmon Research Agency of Ireland and the Salmon Research Trust of Ireland) operate permanent complete fish traps in the Burrishoole catchment, Co. Mayo, as part of a program of long term ecological research (LTER). All migrating diadromous...
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Historic and 'active' graveyards based on graveyards survey undertaken in 2006 by Architectural Recording and Research (AR&R) and modified by Environment Section. Data Owner: Heritage Officer / Environment Section.
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