Marine Scotland Science (MSS), the scientific division of Marine Scotland, plays an integral part in supporting the Scottish Government's vision of marine and coastal environments that are clean, healthy, safe, productive, biologically diverse and are managed to meet the long-term needs of both nature and people.
In the context of EMODnet Ingestion, the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) has been able to re-establish contact with MSS organisation which had been a regular data supplier in the past, but where contact had been lost through staff changes and lack of funding. The data are CT casts, measuring temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence and turbidity.
The BODC was able to catch up on a backlog of data. This covers about 10 cruises per year over the last 4 years. For 2016-17, it has delivered to Phase II 1038 CTD casts (21 cruises) with a similar amount to follow for the period 2018-19. The data are available from SeaDataNet and EMODnet Chemistry. Some of the data are time series, which is important for analysis in the context of EMODnet Physics.
The BODC is proud of this achievement thanks to EMODnet Ingestion because it has helped mobilise a substantial amount of data from Marine Scotland Science. Now that contact has been re-established, data have flowed smoothly and will hopefully lead to regular submissions in the future.
