Marine Environment Monitoring and Assessment National database (MERMAN) Contaminants and biological effects in biota - 1989 onwards

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The Marine Environment Monitoring and Assessment National database (MERMAN) is a national database which holds and provides access to data collected under the Clean Safe Seas Environmental Monitoring Programme (CSEMP) formerly the National Marine Monitoring Programme (NMMP). The data collected are the responsibility of the Competent Monitoring Authorities (CMAs) who collect the samples from stations in UK waters using water sampling techniques, trawls, nets or grabs. The CMAs then send the collected samples to accredited laboratories where they are analysed. A weighting is calculated, based on the quality of the analysis. The weighting score incorporates the laboratory accreditation, reference material, inter-laboratory comparisons, detection limits, uncertainties and standard deviations. Where data do not meet a threshold score they are given a status of ‘FAIL’ and although they are stored they are not made available to external users. The contaminants and biological effects in biota data start in 1987 with greater use of the database occurring from 1997 onwards. Data are submitted by the CMAs annually and an annual submission may include updates to legacy data to provide additional data or improve data/metadata. The data held in MERMAN fulfils the UK's mandatory monitoring requirements under the Oslo and Paris Convention (OSPAR) Joint Assessments and Monitoring Programme (JAMP). These data are used in support of European Commission (EC) directives and national assessments, such as Charting Progress 2 and are also supplied to the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODNET).

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Added to data.gov.uk
2024-08-13
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Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
Harvest GUID
2ee467500e7459e4ae0db83367f40c2a
Extent
Latitude: 62.00° to 48.0453°
Longitude: -11.28° to 4.9145°
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Dataset reference date
2017-10-03 (publication)
2016-06-22 (creation)
2021-04-21 (revision)
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Responsible party
British Oceanographic Data Centre (owner, originator, custodian, distributor); Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (owner, originator); Environment Agency Head Office (owner, originator); Natural Resources Wales (owner, originator); Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (owner, originator); Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Stirling Office (owner, originator); Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (owner, originator); Food Standards Scotland (owner, originator)
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eng
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