Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 5 No 12 The established modelling approach to estimating collision risk employed in environmental assessment of wind farms (the Band model) was developed by Band in 2000, updated in 2007 and has since...
Bathymetric survey data for two areas at the west and north west of Orkney. The original bathymetry is used to derive new products. The data is made available as ESRI layer packages and as Google Earth formats. Due to the size of the datasets...
Bathymetric survey data for several areas around the Outer Hebrides. The original bathymetry is used to derive new products. The data are made available as ESRI layer packages and as Google Earth formats. Due to the size of the datasets they have...
VMS data for all UK registered commercial fishing vessels (=15m length) for the period 2009-2013 in ICES areas VIa, VIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IIa, VIId, and VIIa have been combined with landings information to develop GIS layers describing the spatial...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 5 No 5 This report examines utility of assigning fish to river in Scotland using Single Nucleotide Polymorphic (SNP) markers. The analysis has shown that, depending on baseline coverage, it is possible...
The Marine Monitoring Network Review project was conducted between January 2012 and April 2012. This work aimed to review the existing Scottish marine monitoring network, to identify its capabilities and to identify gaps in marine environmental...
Following the creation of the Pentland Firth Bathymetric Dataset, Marine Scotland Science have converted the data into a geodatabase. This allows for the data to be queried using standard SQL commands. It can also be plotted in ArcGIS as a normal...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 7 No 3 Marine Scotland has led the development of a hydrodynamic model (FVCOM) for the Scottish continental shelf waters called the Scottish Shelf Model (SSM). A series of six reports have been produced...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 5 No 1 The OSPAR ICES Study Group on Ocean Acidification (SGOA) and the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON) have both identified the need for a commitment to long-term monitoring at...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Volume 1 No 2 To date, OSPAR has largely been responsible for the development of an ecosystem approach to the management of marine natural resources. Ten Ecological Quality Issues have been identified, with...