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CE0903 Marine Institute Celtic Explorer Oceanographic Survey North East Atlantic Ocean 2009EnvironmentIn order to begin to collect key oceanographic data two dedicated research cruises are conducted annually in the Irish region. The foundation of these cruises is the acquisition of oceanographic data such as temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence and ocean...
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EnvironmentThis planned biodiscovery and deep-ocean ecosystems cruise cancelled due to vessel issues. This is a multidisciplinary deep-sea research cruise, combining two components: biodiscovery, and ecosystem functioning and nutrient recycling. Both components are inter-institutional...
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EnvironmentNight time activity will mainly consist of the following: Deployments of a video-guided Pump-CTD connected to Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometry. Hydroacoustic detection of gas bubbles using single"split beam echo sounders. The following activity will largely be...
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This survey took place in February 2013, led by University College Cork, on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Explorer. This was a first part of a two part survey to define offshore stratigraphies, collect cores for palaeoenvironmental and geotechnical studies and...
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CTD and plankton net sampling oceanographic survey This cruise seeks to provide Irish data to the ICES Working Group on Oceanic Hydrography (WGOH). The WGOH produces the annual ICES Report on Ocean Climate (IROC) which summarises oceanic variability from year to year in the...
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CE12001 Celtic Explorer Oceanography Survey (Ocean Climate) North East Atlantic Ocean 2012EnvironmentThis 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...
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CE12003 Celtic Explorer Cetaceans on the Frontier III Cruise North East Atlantic Ocean 2012EnvironmentThis 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...
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CE11001 Celtic Explorer Ocean Climate Oceanography, Biogeochemistry and Geology Survey North East...EnvironmentThe 2011 Annual Marine Institute oceanographic survey in the North Atlantic Ocean took place in January 2011 on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Explorer in the North East Atlantic Ocean. The aim of the cruise was to collect CTD profile data along the standard...
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An acoustic survey targeting blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) spawning and post spawning aggregations in the north east Atlantic in March"April 2010. Spawning takes place from January through to April along the shelf edge from the southern Porcupine Bank area...
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EnvironmentThis 17 day survey, led by National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) took place in June 2014 in the North East Atlantic Ocean (along the Whittard Canyon), on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Explorer. The objective of the survey was to build on previous...
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This survey was carried out by the Marine Institute and National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) in May 2008 on board the R.V. Celtic Explorer along the Irish Continental Shelf . It was a collaborative multi-disciplinary research effort between the Earth and Ocean...
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EnvironmentThis 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...
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EnvironmentThis acoustic-trawl survey was carried out on board the RV Celtic Explorer in North West Atlantic Ocean Labrador Sea in April 2013 to map out the distribution and abundance of northern cod off Newfoundland and Labrador. Also map out the distribution and abundance of capelin...
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Lakes play a key role in the global carbon cycle, transporting, processing and storing organic carbon (OC) along the land-ocean aquatic continuum. An OC budget for Lough Feeagh (Ireland), an oligotrophic, peatland lake in a temperate oceanic location, was estimated for one...
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CoClime - Probability of phytoplankton (Alexandrium species) presence, Southwest Ireland - presen...EnvironmentThis is the output of GBM (Gradient Boosting Model) analyses of Alexandrium spp. presence and absnece data done by MI OCIS and CoCliME project. This output dataset shows prediction of probability of Alexandrium spp. presence in present time (1997 - 2016) in SW Ireland. The...
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CoClime - Probability of phytoplankton (Dinophysis acuta) presence, Southwest Ireland - present t...EnvironmentThis is the output of GBM (Gradient Boosting Model) analyses of D. acuta presence and absnece data done by MI OCIS and CoCliME project. This output dataset shows prediction of probability of D. acuta presence in present time (1997 - 2016) in SW Ireland. The analyses was...
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CoClime - Probability of phytoplankton (Dinophysis acuminata) presence, Southwest Ireland - prese...EnvironmentThis is the output of GBM (Gradient Boosting Model) analyses of D. acuminata presence and absnece data done by MI OCIS and CoCliME project. This output dataset shows prediction of probability of D. acuminata presence in present time (1997 - 2016) in SW Ireland. The analyses...
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Daily counts of migration of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), trout (Salmo trutta) and European ee...EnvironmentThe Burrishoole traps (on the Salmon leap and the Mill race) in Co. Mayo Ireland, capture every fish that migrates between the freshwater portion of the Burrishoole catchment and the sea, and are situated between Lough Feeagh and Lough Furnace. The traps are emptied every day,...
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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 the North East, Midlands, Cork and Dublin would be made up of if these materials were...
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Karst is a landscape with distinctive landforms that develop on rock types that are readily dissolved by water. In Ireland, karstification mostly occurs in limestone regions. This karst dataset contains mapped karst landforms in Ireland including: boreholes, caves, dry...