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EnvironmentAn acoustic survey targeting blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) spawning and post spawning aggregations in the north east Atlantic in 2008. 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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This three week research survey led by National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) took place on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Explorer in June/July 2013. The Biodiscovery and Ecosystem Function of Canyons Survey investigated a wide diversity of habitats and...
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EnvironmentThe EU has established a new conservation area recognising the biological sensitivity and commercial importance of the waters around Ireland. The new Irish Conservation Box (ICB) or Irish Biologically Sensitive Area will replace the old Irish Box, a 50-mile, protected fishing...
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This is a point dataset of IED site facility locations.The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the competent authority for granting and enforcing IED licences for specified industrial and agricultural activities listed in the First Schedule to the Environmental Protection...
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Location of PRTR sites and facilities that the EPA must report under the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) if a facility fulfils the following criteria: - the facility falls under at least one of the 65 E-PRTR economic activities. The activities are...
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EnvironmentDemersal discards atlas provides information on discarding patterns by species and area by the various Irish demersal fleets. A number of potential technical measures to reduce discards are shown as well as two case studies showing the potential impact technical measures have...
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A collection of internal and external reports and papers with an associated access database. Groundwater Protection Schemes Reports have been done for the following counties: Clare, North Cork, South Cork, Donegal, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Limerick, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly,...
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CV17028 SMART NUIG MS & EOS Winter 2017 surveys. To deliver an accredited, offshore blended learning module for final year BSc undergraduates of NUIG Marine Science and Earth and Ocean Science degree programmes. • Provide students with the knowledge necessary to...
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CV20020 INFOMAR seabed mapping survey took place in August"September 2020 in the North East Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Ireland and in the Celtic Sea on board the RV Celtic Voyager. The aims of the survey were to . 1. Undertake a Multibeam Echo Sounder (MBES)...
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Two day survey within Cork Harbour under the Smart Sea School programme. To deliver an accredited, offshore blended learning module for final year UCC BSc Geoscience and Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences undergraduates. • Provide students with the knowledge...
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EnvironmentSMART Sea School training survey in Cork Harbour. The objectives of the proposed training programme are to: • Deliver two postgraduate two-day multidisciplinary marine science courses on-board the R.V. Celtic Voyager. • Provide access to the national research vessels for...
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This cruise organised by Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) was organised to use peer assisted learning to enable training of undergraduate degree students on the course in Applied Marine and Freshwater Biology in various fisheries, megafauna, benthic and oceanographic...
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SMART Common Module UU Spring 2016 training survey in Cork Harbour. 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. • Provide students with the...
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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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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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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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NUIG Post-graduate training survey in Galway Bay. Training Objectives • To deliver an accredited, offshore, blended learning, post-graduate module that will contribute towards student learning and research in order to fulfill academic requirements. • Provide students with...
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Box coring, multicoring, vertical plankton tows and CTD casts and ROV ops during daytime during marine research cruise on board Celtic Explorer. (1) To identify and map benthic macrofauna in slope and canyon regions using conventional cores and ROV surveys (2) To...
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This survey is a follow up to the Quantifying EnviRonmental Controls on Cold-water coral Reef Growth (QuERCi) survey which investigated cold-water coral mounds on the southern lip of the Porcupine Bank Canyon and discovered an extensive field of corals attached to the...
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EnvironmentThe location offshore wells drilled in the Irish offshore area. Offshore wells cover the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone including the Irish Sea, Saint Georges Channel, Celtic Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Offshore wells recorded between 1970 and 2019 available with this...