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SMART NUI Galway SEMRU 2016 Survey undertaken in Cork Harbour. Training will focus on multidisciplinary research methods for studying the marine environment, using the core disciplines of fisheries, benthic biology, oceanography, and marine geophysics. The course takes...
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SMART Common Module Spring 2016 (NUIG) survey in Cork Harbour. To deliver an accredited, offshore blended learning module for final year undergraduates of NUIG Marine Science and Earth and Ocean Sciences. • Provide students with the knowledge necessary to design plan and...
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The SMART (Strategic Marine Alliance for Research and Training ) MaREI (Marine and Renewable Energy Ireland) Ocean Energy training survey took place in Cork Harbour in February 2016 on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Voyager. The objectives of the training...
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SMART Sea School UCC graduate training survey in Cork Harbour. To deliver an accredited, offshore blended learning module • Provide students with the knowledge necessary to design plan and execute an offshore scientific research survey. • Develop student understanding...
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EnvironmentGalway Mayo Institute of Technology SMART Science@Sea 2017 training survey in Cork Harbour. The objectives of the proposed training programme are to: • Deliver one two-day Science@Sea course in multidisciplinary marine science on-board the R.V. Celtic Voyager. • Provide...
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EnvironmentThis survey took place in December 2017 on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Voyager, led by Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT). The survey was conducted to assess microplastic pollution and seafloor integrity within Galway Bay and its environs. 12...
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This training survey in Geological Exploration took place on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Voyager in Cork Harbour. Three instructors delivered 6 days of training to postgraduate and undergraduate students from University College Cork (UCC) from the 24th to...
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CV17010 Undergraduate shipboard training in methods of oceanographic, benthic, megafauna and fish...EnvironmentGalway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) training survey in Cork Harbour, Galway Bay and Clew Bay. Measurable educational objectives of the course are as follows: - cruise trainers and students will have students will have undertaken the following onboard activities in a...
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Ulster University graduates SMART-SEA training survey in Cork Harbour and Celtic Sea. • To deliver an accredited, offshore blended learning module for 2nd year undergraduates at the University of Ulster in fulfillment of student’s studies and academic requirements. •...
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Cetacean survey carried out by the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG), Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) in 2014 on board the Celtic Explorer research vessel. The main objective of the survey was to characterise the preferred habitat of bottlenose dolphins...
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This multidisciplinary survey was conducted by Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Explorer, as part of the programme Cetaceans on the Frontier. ‘Cetaceans on the Frontier’ has become an annual research cruise, lead jointly by...
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The training programme takes the original UNESCO IOC concept of Training through Research and adds additional elements that will enable students to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence necessary to participate in, and act as chief scientits on vessels within their own...
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This data shows the location of commercial ports (including ferry) around the Republic of Ireland. It also includes specific data pertaining to the volume of traffic over the period 1999 to 2014, as well as the tonnage of goods handled between 2000 and 2012. None
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Nephrops Underwater TV Survey FU22 The "Smalls" North East Atlantic Ocean 2006 - PresentEnvironmentNephrops norvegicus are common around the Irish coast, occurring in geographically distinct sandy or muddy areas where the sediment is suitable for construction of their burrow dwellings. The Marine Institute carries out Underwater TV surveys annually of commercially important...
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Focused Delivery Flow Paths are the areas of converging runoff that results in an increasing accumulation of flow. It is important to consider the available source of phosphorus in these contributing areas when deciding whether to target measures (check the underlying PIP-CSA...
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Sea Surface Visibility from Land (SSVL) provides an insight into sea surface location in terms of their visibility from land. A grid of observation points is generated extending 20km inshore and 35km offshore. These observation points at 500 m intervals, represent...
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Visual Resource Mapping was carried for the Seascapes Character Assessment (2020) project to produce this dataset Land with sea views (LWSV). The data shows how visible a point on land is from the sea. The analysis was carried out for areas 20km inland and offshore up to...
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This dataset shows how many marine related businesses there are per OSI electoral district. The number of marine related businesses per electoral area was extracted from the Marine Institute's Marine Related Business Directory. These figures were then joined with the Ordnance...
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EnvironmentSeascape character types are distinct areas that are relatively homogenous in character. They are generic in nature in that the may occur in different areas but share broadly similar combinations of geology, ecology, bathymetry, human influences and perceptual and aesthetic...
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EnvironmentSeascape is defined as an area of sea, coastline or land, as perceived by people, whose character results from actions and interactions of land with sea by natural and/or human factors. GIS datsets from varying disciplines were gathered and analysed - bathymetry, geology,...