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The northwest and west coast herring acoustic survey programme was first implemented in 1994. Prior to this a larval survey programme was carried out between 1984 and 1986. The ICES working group (HAWG) identified a need for a dedicated herring acoustic survey off the Irish...
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The Irish Groundfish Survey is an annual 6 week fish trawl survey held in the 4th quarter of the years that has an essential aim to examine the composition and abundance of fish species in the waters surrounding Ireland. This major survey is undertaken by the Fisheries Science...
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EnvironmentFisheries survey into the abundance and distribution of species in the Celtic Sea and North Atlantic Ocean. The aim of this survey programme is to assess the northeastern Atlantic mackerel and horse mackerel stock. Plankton samples are collected via a Gulf III plankton...
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The aim of the cruise was to survey in the region of the southern Rockall Trough and Porcupine Bank to look at aspects of the physical oceanographic regime, the bacterial communities and the regional biodiversity of benthic fauna. The cruise also wanted to do the following:...
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EnvironmentAn acoustic survey targeting blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) spawning and post spawning aggregations in the north east Atlantic in 2017. Spawning takes place from January through to April along the shelf edge from the southern Porcupine Bank area northwards to the...
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EnvironmentThe 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 a successor to the Irish National Seabed Survey (INSS) and...
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CE17011 Fisheries Acoustic Survey - The Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS) L...Marine InstituteEnvironmentThe Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS) survey program is the consolidation of two existing survey programs carried out by Fisheries Ecosystems Advisory Service (FEAS) in the Marine Institute. The Main Shelf herring acoustic survey has been carried out...
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Territorial waters or a territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,[1] is a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22.2 km; 13.8 mi) from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state. The...
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EnvironmentAccording to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a nation's internal waters include waters on the landward side of the baseline of a nation's territorial waters, except in archipelagic states. It includes waterways such as rivers and canals, and sometimes the...
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Aquaculture data has been provided via special request, by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for reporting on aquaculture activities under Ireland's Marine Strategy Framework Directive article reporting. Aquaculture sites include shellfish, finfish and seaweed...
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The GO-SHIP A02 survey was completed in April/May 2017 on the RV Celtic Explorer, travelling from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, across the North Atlantic to Galway, Ireland. A total of 67 stations were occupied along the A02 transect, with 1231 nutrient samples analysed...
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The water temperature is measured at a depth of 1 metre, using a StowAway TidbiT temperature data logger from Onset (TBI32-05+37) (https://www.onsetcomp.com/products/data-loggers/tbi32-0537 ). The logger is permanently moored over the deepest point of the lake, and records...
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Burrishoole catchment water colour measurements, and associated environmental driversMarine InstituteEnvironmentWater colour is measured routinely in the Burrishoole catchment at several different locations as part of the ongoing LTER (long term ecological research) program of monitoring. Water colour is a good proxy measurement of DOC (Dissolved Organic Carbon). This dataset is...
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The water temperature is measured at a depth of 1 metre, using a StowAway TidbiT temperature data logger from Onset (TBI32-05+37) (https://www.onsetcomp.com/products/data-loggers/tbi32-0537 ). The logger is permanently moored over the deepest point of the lake, and records...
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EnvironmentThe Mill Race links upstream Lough Feeagh with Downstream Lough Furnace. The channel is short (200 metres) and shallow ( None Suggested Citation: Dillane, Mary; de Eyto, Elvira; Cooney, Joseph; Hughes, Pat; Murphy, Michael; Nixon, Pat; Sweeney, David; Poole, Russell. (2018)...
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Lough Furnace Automatic Water Quality Monitoring Station (AWQMS) profiles 2009-2014Marine InstituteEnvironmentFull water column profiles of temperature, conductivity, pressure and dissolved oxygen are routinely measured in the coastal basin Lough Furnace as part of the LTER (long-term ecological research) monitoring programme. Profiles are measured by a multi-parameter sonde attached...
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Midnight profiles of chlorophyll fluorescence data from Lough Furnace, 2009-2014 and associated p...Marine InstituteEnvironmentChlorophyll fluorescence (ChlF) is measured routinely in Lough Furnace as part of an ongoing LTER (long term ecological research) program of monitoring. Furnace is a coastal lagoon in the Burrishoole catchment, with a permanently moored AWQMS (automatic water quality...
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This dataset represents an initial comparison between several years of hourly wave forecasts (using WAM) on a grid of points located off the Irish coast with corresponding records from a number of buoys installed pre 2005. Based on the level of agreement found the wave...
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This dataset represents an initial comparison between several years of hourly wave forecasts (using WAM) on a grid of points located off the Irish coast with corresponding records from a number of buoys installed pre 2005. Based on the level of agreement found the wave...
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This dataset represents an initial comparison between several years of hourly wave forecasts (using WAM) on a grid of points located off the Irish coast with corresponding records from a number of buoys installed pre 2005. Based on the level of agreement found the wave...
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