Marine Scotland Science (MSS) undertakes a wide range of monitoring covering many aspects of the Scottish marine ecosystem.
Monitoring is undertaken in Scottish Inshore Waters, using networks of volunteers and automatic recording equipment, as well as in Scottish Offshore Waters, using the MSS research vessels MRV Alba na Mara and MRV Scotia.
Marine Scotland Science also participates national monitoring programmes, such as:
This group provides published data from monitoring these activities. For many activities, there are national or international standards for how the monitoring is undertaken.
The 2019 assessment described the status and trends of external fish disease in common dab at monitoring stations in waters around Scotland. A fish disease index (FDI) that combines observations of disease incidence and severity, disease...
Ocean Acidification : A Baseline Study assessing seasonal and inter-annual varability of carbonate chemistry in Scottish Waters. The chemistry of the seawater carbonate system is complex, an imbalance as a result of absorption of atmospheric CO2,...
Marine Environmental Assessment Group data for organic contaminants, metals, biological effects and water chemistry collected for the Clean Seas Environment Monitoring Programme (CSEMP). Sediment and biota samples are analysed for organic...
Dataset used for Scottish Marine Assessment 2020 - contains positional data and items per km squared sea surface. Also contains raw counts of microplastics per sample.
The National Performance Framework Clean Seas Indicator 2019 is the percentage of assessments of metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in biota and sediment showing concentrations that are unlikely...
The National Performance Framework Clean Seas Indicator 2018 is the percentage of assessments of metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in biota and sediment showing concentrations that are unlikely...
The 2019 assessment of the UK's Clean Seas Environment Monitoring Programme described the status and trends of contaminant concentrations and biological effects measurements in biota and sediment at monitoring stations in waters around the UK....
The National Performance Framework Clean Seas Indicator 2017 is the percentage of assessments of metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in biota and sediment showing concentrations that are unlikely...
The National Performance Framework Clean Seas Indicator 2015 is the percentage of assessments of metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in biota and sediment showing concencentrations that are...
The National Performance Framework Clean Seas Indicator 2016 is the percentage of assessments of metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in biota and sediment showing concencentrations that are...