Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/D521949/1
Taxonomic marine plankton identification manual for North European seas.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor G Pierce, University of Aberdeen, Inst of Biological and Environmental Sci
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr M Angel, Southampton Oceanography Centre, George Deacon Division for Ocean Process
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr A Ingvarsdottir, University of Aberdeen, Inst of Biological and Environmental Sci
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor G Boxshall, The Natural History Museum, Life Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr D Conway, Marine Biological Association, Department of Marine Biology
- Co-Investigator:
- Ms M Wootton, Marine Biological Association, CPR Survey
- Grant held at:
- University of Aberdeen, Inst of Biological and Environmental Sci
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Systematics & Taxonomy
- Conservation Ecology
- Community Ecology
- Population Ecology
- Abstract:
- Many Institutes and university researchers carry out research and marine coastal and offshore surveys and monitoring programmes which require routine taxonomic identification of marine plankton. The work is highly skilled and often arduous, with taxonomic skills and knowledge that are very scarce. Reference texts and keys spread wide in time and spread through many journals and books are not always easy to find. Individual scientists often specialise in the detail of one or a few taxonomic groups, whereas others are generalist. Many such experts are retired or soon to retire. There is therefore a great need to consolidate and preserve this taxonomic expertise on zooplankton and to bring together the experts to enable this and to produce more easily accessible information on the taxonomy of plankton. Plankton scientists from several UK research centres, coordinated from the University of Aberdeen, propose to develop and produce a taxonomy manual for ready use. Various such experts have already 'loose leaf' assembled manuals for personal use. Recently too, a pictorial reference manual was drafted and used successfully during two NERC Marine Productivity summer zooplankton courses and analysis work experience efforts at Aberdeen University. These resources we aim to consolidate into a user friendly manual, held in standard formats and web database form for easy updating, access and distribution. The marine area covered will be the northeast Atlantic ocean and it's coastal and shelf sea areas most relevant to UK interests, describing species found from surface to 200 metres depth. Expertise, facilities, specimens etc, held at participating institutes, will be used to prepare additional photographic and other material from plankton specimen collections along with reference data for descriptions, distributions, abundances and general ecology. The format and output will be standardised and determined by the practical bench and fieldwork needs of working scientists and technical staffs and for training of new staff.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/D521949/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- EO Programmes Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Good Ideas Project
This grant award has a total value of £111,163
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £15,921 | £43,833 | £31,246 | £20,163 |
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