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Estimated annual average wave period (seconds) created by a Pelamis Wave Model for Accessible Wave Energy Resource Atlas. Wave period values are measured as lower and upper values in seconds as calculated by the Pelamis wave model. Annual average wave period covers an area...
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Estimated annual average wave height (metres) created by a Pelamis Wave Model for Accessible Wave Energy Resource Atlas. Wave height values are measured as lower and upper values in metres as calculated by the Pelamis wave model. Annual average wave height covers an area known...
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Galway Bay 1/4 Scale Marine Energy Test Site Waverider buoys have collected observations and measurements on wave characteristics including wave height and period statistics. Waverider buoys are located in the Galway Bay 1/4 Scale Test Site and the Full Scale Atlantic Marine...
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The Full Scale Atlantic Marine Energy Test Site (AMETS) provides 30 minute observational data from two directional waverider buoys known as Belmullet A and Belmullet B observing and measuring wave height, wave direction and wave period. The AMETS buoys are located in the North...
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The Full Scale Atlantic Marine Energy Test Site (AMETS) provides 30 minute observational data from two directional waverider buoys known as Belmullet A and Belmullet B observing and measuring wave height, wave direction and wave period. The AMETS buoys are located in the North...
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EnvironmentThis ten day survey took place in January 2012 on board the RV Celtic Explorer, led by the Marine Institute. This cruise was designed to contribute Ireland's data to the ICES working group on oceanic hydrography (WGOH). WGOH produce the ICES Report on Ocean Climate (IROC)...
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MEFEPO (Making the European Fisheries Ecosystem Plan Operational) is a group of ecologists, economists, management experts and fisheries scientists who are trying to make ecosystem based fisheries management a reality in Europe. This Atlas is intended for policy makers,...
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The purpose of the atlas is to communicate the key results from the Irish Groundfish Survey programme which is carried out annually in the waters around Ireland, and the Deepwater Survey programme conducted 2006-2009. Data is presented in a concise, visual and non technical...
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Making the European Fisheries Ecosystem Plan Operational (MEFEPO) North Western Waters AtlasEnvironmentMEFEPO (Making the European Fisheries Ecosystem Plan Operational) is a group of ecologists, economists, management experts and fisheries scientists who are trying to make ecosystem based fisheries management a reality in Europe. This Atlas is intended for policy makers,...
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EnvironmentThe Connemara 3D Model provides data for Galway Bay on the oceanographic parameters: Sea Temperature (degreeCelsius), Salinity (Salinity, PSU), Sea Water X Velocity (m/sec) and Sea Water X Velocity (m/sec). The ROMS model uses the sigma vertical coordinate system which is...
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Yellow eel stock monitoring is integral to gaining an understanding of the current status of local stocks and for informing models of escapement. In addition, such monitoring provides a means of evaluating post-management changes and forecasting the effects of these changes on...
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The Atlas of Commercial Fisheries Around Ireland uses informatics, the science of processing data into information, to give useful new insights into fishing activities and fisheries resources. Fishing is one of the most significant ocean uses in the waters around Ireland with...
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EnvironmentThis 13 day survey, led by National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) took place on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Expolerer in May"June 2017 in the North East Atlantic. The survey was conducted to collect large Porifera and Cnidaria, groups with...
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The Observatory in Galway Bay is an important contribution by Ireland to the growing global network of real-time data capture systems deployed within the ocean. Installed on the seafloor 1.5km off the coast of Spiddal, the observatory uses cameras, probes and sensors to permit...
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The Observatory in Galway Bay is an important contribution by Ireland to the growing global network of real-time data capture systems deployed within the ocean. Installed on the seafloor 1.5km off the coast of Spiddal, the observatory uses cameras, probes and sensors to permit...
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This dataset identifies the location of current petroleum exploration and production authorisations as issued by the Minister for the Department of Communications, Climate Action & Environment under the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development Act, 1960. Authorisation...
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South Rockall Trough Sub-surface Mooring Time-Series (October 2018 - current) - CTD Data (Raw)EnvironmentThis dataset contains raw water temperature, conductivity (derived salinity) and pressure data from CTD instruments from a succession of deep water moorings deployed at a site (15.52 degrees West, 52.999 degrees North) in the South Rockall Trough close to the M6 met-ocean...
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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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Daily counts of seaward migration of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), trout (Salmo trutta) and Eur...EnvironmentThe Burrishoole traps (on the Salmon leap and the Mill race) in Co. Mayo Ireland, capture every fish that migrates from the freshwater portion of the Burrishoole catchment to the sea, and are situated between Lough Feeagh and Lough Furnace. The traps are emptied every day, and...
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South Rockall Trough Sub-surface Mooring Pilot Deployment (October 2018 - May 2019) - CTD Data (Raw)EnvironmentThis dataset contains raw water temperature, conductivity (derived salinity) and pressure data from CTD instruments from a pilot deep water mooring deployed at a site (15.52 degrees West, 52.999 degrees North) in the South Rockall Trough close to the M6 met-ocean buoy. The...