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MEPA Coastal Water Survey - Pollutants in sediment 2012
The survey was conducted at 17 stations in the coastal waters of the Maltese Islands in 2012. Sediment samples were collected using a Van Veen grab sampler. The collected sediment was collected in a container of adequate size, photographed and immediately sampled. At each station two samples were collected in order to execute and compare two chemical analyses. These were placed in a cool box and transported to the warehouse and stored in a refrigerator. Later, they were shipped by express courier to the laboratory within 3 working days. The samples were analysed for the level of pollutants using International Organization for Standardization and US Environmental Protection Agency standard procedures. The pollutants tested for are important metals, hydrocarbons and PAHs and persistent organic compounds that can cause bioaccumulation. The measurements were made in connection with a monitoring survey of Maltese coastal waters. The resultant datasets generated provide the benchmark for long term monitoring programs and assessments that are required in order to implement EU Directives on water resources.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2020-09-29
- Date (Revision)
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-10-07
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-03-16
- Citation identifier
- 8d9a3902-7e1c-49bf-8e72-dc27509d955e
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environment and Resources Authority Originator of Dataset Oceanography Malta Research Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Malta Dataset Holding Organisation Oceanography Malta Research Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Malta Author
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Use limitation
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Conditions for access and use apply
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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PDDL
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- Begin date
- 2012-08-01
- End date
- 2012-08-22
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- Supplemental Information
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XML metadata files, original report
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 1984
Spatial representation info
- Distribution format
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Name Version Text or Plaintext 1
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://cloud.emodnet-ingestion.eu/index.php/s/PECeEJtdBY7cYC8 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://cdi-chemistry.seadatanet.org/search/welcome.php?query=2560&query_code={BFF1FB9C-6401-4D74-A5DC-9D10DA2CDA5D} WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://cdi.seadatanet.org/search/welcome.php?query=2560&query_code={BFF1FB9C-6401-4D74-A5DC-9D10DA2CDA5D}
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- Title
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Corrigendum to INSPIRE Metadata Regulation published in the Official Journal of the European Union, L 328, page 83
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
- Statement
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MEPA Coastal Water Survey data collected by the Environment and Resources Authority are managed by the University of Malta following the SeaDataNet data management standards concerning gathering, processing, quality controlling, metadata preparation.|The data was available in the form of a report in PDF format. This was digitized and validated using standard procedures. The metadata was then converted into an XML object.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 8d9a3902-7e1c-49bf-8e72-dc27509d955e XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-05-21T00:00:00
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Oceanography Malta Research Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Malta Point of contact
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