Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/C508618/1
A CD and web-based gridded database and browser for North Atlantic plankton.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr PC Reid, SAHFOS, Sir Alister Hardy Found for Ocean Sci
- Co-Investigator:
- Mr P Dowland, University of Plymouth, Sch of Computing & Mathematics
- Grant held at:
- SAHFOS, Sir Alister Hardy Found for Ocean Sci
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Survey & Monitoring
- Systematics & Taxonomy
- Community Ecology
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- SAHFOS will produce a CD and web-based gridded database of 10 key plankton taxa for the North Atlantic using Continuous Plankton Recorder data from 1948 to 2002. This tool would provide users with the ability to extract abundance data and gridded products for key taxa and other variables using state-of-the-art spatial interpolation methods that have been developed at SAHFOS (e.g. Beaugrand et al. 2002) but are not yet available to the scientific community. The database will be produced by building on an existing gridded database of 120 phyto and zooplankton taxa in the North Sea that is packaged with an interactive browser in Windows format on a CD (Vezzulli & Reid, 2003). The project will also include an update of the North Sea database to include a reassessment of the grid used and incorporate compiled physical, chemical and other biological data averaged for the same pixel template and for as long a time period as available. The Windows compatible. user-friendly database interface provides an option to plot the plankton data as graphs, contour plots and contoured maps for individual months in the period 1948-2002. Plots of annual, seasonal and long-term means can also be easily produced. Statistical tests on the reliability of the interpolated pixels will be included. The Windows interface already operates successfully in the prototype and will be demonstrated as the focus of a SAHFOS contribution to the 2004 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Society.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/C508618/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- EO Programmes Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Good Ideas Project
This grant award has a total value of £49,349
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs | Total - Equipment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,025 | £20,819 | £16,929 | £9,577 | £1,000 |
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