AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
River Flood Maps (FRM_FH_RIVER_DEPTH_L)

These maps have been produced to meet SEPA’s duty to publish flood hazard maps as set out in the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009.  The maps show where there is a risk of flooding from the sea, from rivers and from surface water.The following probabilities are available for river flooding: - High - 10 year return period - Medium - 200 year return period - Low - 1000 year return period and 200 year return period plus climate change using the UKCP09 high emissions scenario for the 2080s.The river hazard maps show (where available): - Flood extent - Flood depth - Flood velocities where appropriate. The climate change scenario has been defined by United Kingdom Climate Projection 2009 (UKCP09) predictions for 2080 high emissions 95%ile predictions. Medium and low probability flood events were selected for consistency with return periods used in Scottish Planning Policy, whereas the high probability was chosen as it is reflective of observed events experienced over the last few decades.

Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Regional Parks

Regional Parks are extensive areas of land, parts of which are devoted to the recreational needs of the public. The function of a Regional Park is to provide an opportunity for the co-ordinated management of recreational provision alongside, and in close collaboration with, the management of other land uses throughout the Park. Regional parks are managed by local authorities, with support from NatureScot (Scottish Natural Heritage).

Tags: Protected sites
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Coastal Flood Maps (FRM_FH_COASTAL_DEPTH_M_CC)

The following probabilities are available for coastal flooding: - High - 10 year return period - Medium - 200 year return period - Low - 1000 year return period and 200 year return period plus climate change using the UKCP09 high emissions scenario for the 2080s.The coastal hazard maps show (where available): - Flood extent - Flood depth's where appropriate. The climate change scenario has been defined by United Kingdom Climate Projection 2009 (UKCP09) predictions for 2080 high emissions 95%ile predictions. Medium and low probability flood events were selected for consistency with return periods used in Scottish Planning Policy, whereas the high probability was chosen as it is reflective of observed events experienced over the last few decades

Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Revised Draft Water Resources Management Plan 2019 Supply-Demand Data at Company Level 2020/21 to 2044/45

PLEASE NOTE: This dataset has been retired. It has been superseded by Water Resource Management Plan Supply-Demand Balance Forecast Collated Data. See: https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/ce876669-106a-473c-82f4-5f7ff2a25dac

A water company’s water resources management plan (WRMP) is supported by a series of data tables. During the consultation on their plans the company produce draft water resource management plan tables (dWRMP tables). These Tables are used to help regulators, water company customers and other organisations understand and appraise the plan.

The following data has been extracted from the water company revised draft Water Resources Management Plans for 2019 (rdWRMP19). The data is at Water Company level, where a company has more than one Water Resource Zone the Tables have been combined to produce a Water Company Level data set. Due to the need to provide a consistent data set, the values in this data set may differ slightly from that in the company revised draft WRMP Tables, consequently, any analysis should be checked against the rdWRMP19 Tables available from the water companies. 

This workbook displays WRMP data from 2020/21 to 2044/45 for all water companies – this is the statutory minimum period that companies should plan for, and all water companies have submitted data for these years within this workbook. Some companies have chosen to present additional supply and demand data for years between 2044/45 and 2079/80 to demonstrate longer term planning and forecasts. This is not a requirement of the WRMP process and optional, and has been provided for transparency purposes. Data provided between 2044/45 and 2079/80 should be viewed for information purposes only, and should not be used in isolation to assess supply and demand in these years as the dataset is incomplete.

This data set, as the revised draft, supersedes the Draft Water Resources Management Plan 2019 Supply-Demand Data at Company Level 2020/21 to 2044/45. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2017. All rights reserved.

Tags: Water resources, environment, water demand, water resources management, water supply
Organization: Environment Agency
Fraud Data

This information relates to counter fraud work undertaken by the Council.  The data relates mainly to the number of staff employed, number of investigations undertaken and the occasions when statutory powers were used.

The Transparency Code 2014 refers to the Audit Commission definition of fraud as an intentional false representation, including failure to declare information or abuse of position that is carried out to make gain, cause loss or expose another to the risk of loss.

The ‘powers’ referred to are those in place allowing the Council to compel certain prescribed bodies to supply it with information.  



Organization: Rochdale Borough Council
2009 Defra MB0102 2B Distribution of Tenellia adspersa in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man

This layer shows the distribution of the Lagoon Sea Slug, Tenellia adspersa, a Biodiversity Action Plan, and Wildlife and Countryside Act Species. 
                  This layer forms one of a set of data layers created for the Defra MB0102 contract.  This work will support the delivery of a network of Marine Protected Areas as required to meet existing international and national obligations and commitments, including Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs), a new measure to be delivered as part of the Marine and Coastal Access Bill, and equivalent measures under Scottish legislation.  The availability of these data layers will also be of importance in underpinning Marine Planning (e.g. licensing) in our marine area.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
2009 Defra MB0102 2C Distribution of tide-swept channels (from polygon data) in the UK and Isle of Man

This layer shows the distribution of polygon records of  tide-swept communities, a Biodiversity Action Plan Habitat.
       This layer forms one of a set of data layers created for the Defra MB0102 contract.  This work will support the delivery of a network of Marine Protected Areas as required to meet existing international and national obligations and commitments, including Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs), a new measure to be delivered as part of the Marine and Coastal Access Bill, and equivalent measures under Scottish legislation.  The availability of these data layers will also be of importance in underpinning Marine Planning (e.g. licensing) in our marine area.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
2017 Eastern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (EIFCA) The Wash (Box 1 and 3) Ground Truthing Survey

This survey forms part of the preliminary survey work for the Shrimp trial project. Ground truthing was conducted using a video camera sled and day grab to assess and identify areas of subtidal mixed sediment within boxes identified as potentially suitable for the trial. The survey work was conducted to the East of Roger Sand and East of Roaring Middle.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
1982 - 1985 Nature Conservancy Council (NCC), Poole Harbour, Subtidal dredge and grab sampling survey

These records all relate to ''Dyrynda (1987) Poole Harbour subtidal survey - IV: Baseline assessment". A copy of the report is held at Poole Harbour Commissioners, Dorset.
     This survey was undertaken in 3 phases, the aim being to establish a baseline survey of subtidal species and provide a framework for future monitoring. All the surveys were commissioned by the Nature Conservancy Council. The first survey was of Holes Bay in 1982. This was followed by surveys of the southern sector (1984) and northern sector (1985). All 3 surveys used a combination of grab, dredge and dive transect sampling. Samples were taken at 120 stations across the Harbour using conventional dredge and grab sampling methods. Dive transects were also established at 49 points, covering all sections of the Harbour with species and habitat details recorded metre by metre. For recording purposes, the harbour was divided up into 16 areas for which the species lists of the three survey methods were combined. For entry onto the database, each area has been enclosed within a bounding box from which the SW and NE corners have been used as the area covered by the survey. For more accurate positional information about each survey station, please refer to the original map in the report. For each site, a single species list has been compiled which combines records from all the different survey methods used.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
1946-2015 Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership (GLNP) Lincolnshire Eriocheir sinensis, Spartina anglica, Crepidula fornicata and Urosalpinx cinerea records

A collection of Non-Native Species sightings from Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership (GLNP). The species listed are Eriocheir sinensis, Spartina anglica, Crepidula fornicata and Urosalpinx cinerea.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
2005-present Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) Shorewatch Programme records

The Shorewatch Programme trains volunteers to conduct land-based watches for cetaceans in coastal waters around northern Scotland. Shorewatch data is effort-based and collected from specific sites using consistent methodology. The complete Shorewatch data set contains effort and sightings from 2005 - 2009 (Spey Bay only) and from 2010 through the most recent completed calendar year from all Shorewatch sites.  Longstanding sites can be found in Aberdeen, along the south coast of the Moray Firth, Inverness area, the North coast, the West coast, and the outer Hebrides.  Pilot sites exist in some of the other Hebridean islands and on Orkney.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
2012 The Marine Conservation Society - Seasearch, Various locations in Dorset, Diver observations and detailed survey records

Seasearch surveys conducted in Dorset during 2010. All survey records from individual dives, Seasearch weekends and specific studies are all included. In many cases, records are compiled from more than one form where divers were in close proximity to each other and covered the same habitats.
     Photographs taken on all Dorset Wildlife Trust charter weekends are held by DWT in Dorchester. 
     Records are verified post survey and biotopes are assigned according the information available by DWT using the MNCR 04.05 key.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
2022 Cornwall Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA) on behalf of Cornwall Wildlife Trust Gerrans Bay Acoustic Survey of the seagrass bed

Cornwall Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (Cornwall IFCA) was contracted by Cornwall Wildlife Trust to map the extent of the seagrass within Gerrans Bay as part of their blue carbon mapping project. The survey site is within the Falmouth Bay to St Austell Bay Special Protection Area (SPA). This project was funded as part of the G7 Legacy Fund. The contract includes joint intellectual property (IP) of all data collected. 
     The aim of the survey was to map the extent and coverage of the seagrass bed within Gerrans Bay using a Biosonics MX Scientific Echosounder. In total 170 acoustic survey lines were completed, all of which were included in the analysis.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
2010 NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit. Berwickshire and North Northumberland Grey seal population status

As part of a report to Natural England, the NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit conducted and investigated the Grey Seal population status of Berwickshire and North Northumberland Coast European Marine Site. The report includes detailed counts of grey seals around various known populations along the site of interest. These totals are compared with previous studies estimate pup production rate and breeding potential for each population.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
Beach replenishment and derived archaeological material

This project takes the form of a desk-based archaeological assessment to examine the relationship between the historic environment and beach replenishment schemes, by exploring the deposition of archaeological materials on replenished beaches and their former offshore contexts. The area of coast between Mablethorpe and Skegness has been used as a case study, as a major beach replenishment scheme has recently taken place here. The project involves the analysis of data sources and assessment of their usefulness in identifying the potential archaeological impact of beach schemes. This process is carried out with a view to applying the methods outlined in this document to other beach replenishment schemes around the UK.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
SeaVoX regional seas around the UK

A polygon subset of sea areas around the UK taken from The SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer (v14 published April 2013). Sea areas included are Iceland Sea, Norwegian Sea, North Sea, Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland, Irish Sea and St. George's Channel, Bristol Channel, English Channel, Celtic Sea, Bay of Biscay and Skagerrak.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
2012-2013 University of Southampton Poole Harbour Crassostrea gigas transect and settlement panel records

The work carried out so far highlights Poole Harbour as being an anomaly in the apparent steady progressive development of Pacific oyster populations around the coast, in that there is an obvious source of larvae but little successful settlement. The mechanisms which are âdampening downâ expected settlement appear to include at least one physical factor but it is likely that this is moderated by biological factors such as competition for settlement space and predation. Further work is required to establish which biological factors may be modifying recruitment success and whether recruitment is moderated during the larval stage or post metamorphosis. if the dominant controlling factor(s) act before oyster settlement it is most likely water temperature that controls the naturalised population, however top-down control by predators could be significant if oysters are surviving metamorphosis.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
1893-2016 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Federation for Biological Recorders (CISFBR) Environmental Recording in Cornwall Automated (ERICA) database Cornwall non-native species records

A collection of Non-Native Species sightings from Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Federation for Biological Recorders (CISFBR). The species listed are Bonnemaisonia hamifera, Grateloupia turuturu, Sargassum muticum, Undaria pinnatifida, Spartina anglica, Asterocarpa humilis, Styela clava, Hesperibalanus fallax, Watersipora subatra, Caprella mutica, Diadumene lineata, Crassostrea, Crepidula fornicata and Ficopomatus enigmaticus.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
1987 Field Studies Council (Oil Pollution Research Unit), Christchurch Harbour, Dorset, Intertidal coring and qualitative recording and subtidal pipe-dredge survey

Survey run by Field Studies Council (Oil Pollution Research Unit) for the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC). All these records relate to "Dixon (1988) Surveys of Harbours, Rias and Estuaries in Southern Britain: Christchurch Harbour". A copy of the report is held at English Nature (Dorset Team).
     This report is from the series 'Surveys of Harbours, Rias and Estuaries in Southern Britain' commissioned by the Nature Conservancy Council between 1985-1988. The study aims to review existing information and undertake further fieldwork, where required. The first volume of each study provides a report of the field surveys. The aim of the fieldwork was to collect information on the abundance of macrofauna and flora (at sites selected to include a wide range of different shore and seabed types, areas of known or likely nature conservation importance, or where rare or unusual species might be present). The combined intertidal and subtidal survey took place during 13th -18th June 1987 and a total of 32 sites were sampled. Sites 1 to 23 were sited on the extensive intertidal sediments. At each intertidal site, the habitats present were recorded and infauna sampled by a combination of coring and qualitative recording. Subtidal surveying was undertaken at 6 sites along the main channel using a pipe-dredge, and at 3 sites divers recorded habitat type and conspicuous species.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
2006 Tweedy et al. Salcombe Sargassum muticum records

The first reports of Sargassum muticum occurring in British waters coincided with a warning that this invasive alga may replace seagrass beds, particularly those of Zostera marina. Initial fears were allayed when subsequent research suggested that both species required different attachment substrata, and, therefore, S. muticum would be unable to replace Zostera beds on soft sediments. Here, however, we present evidence supporting the original warning: contrary to previous research we found that S. muticum is able to successfully colonise soft sediments and, furthermore, that the presence of Z. marina may aid attachment. The majority of S. muticum plants within Zostera beds studied at Salcombe, SW England, were found attached within the soft sediment; outside of the seagrass bed, however, this occurred in greatly reduced numbers. Therefore, we suggest that the presence of Z. marina may actually enhance S. muticum colonization of soft sediments, trapping drifting fragments and allowing viable algae to settle on the seagrass matrix in an otherwise unfavorable environment. The consequences for the invasion of seagrass beds by S. muticum may therefore be more severe than previously thought.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
1961 - 1987 Alan J. Southward and Eve C. Southward Devon and Cornwall Sightings of Clibanarius erythropus

The hermit crab Clibanarius erythropus was first reported from Britain in 1961.
      Alan and Eve Southward reported the occurrence of this crab at a number of localities in Devon and Cornwall and showed how the species had become less common (Southward and Southward, 1977). Since that time they continued surveillance at the two sites where the population of the hermit crab survived, on Church Reef, Wembury, S. Devon and on Great Hogus Reef, Marazion, Mount's Bay, Cornwall. No animals were seen at either site in the last two years of surveillance, 1986 and 1987. Records from Alan and Eve's paper have been digitised.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
2003 - Ongoing, EIFCA, (Eastern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority), The Wash, Mussel Survey

Mussel surveys are carried out once a year during Autumn/Winter. Data is collected for stock assessments to inform fisheries management  (opening times, Total Allowable Catch, which cockle beds to open, which fishery to open) as per the Wash Fishery Order fihseries managed by the IFCA. Data also forms part of the Appropriate Assessment process required to open a fishery under Regulation 61 of The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010 (SI No.  2010/490), regarding The Wash and North Norfolk Coast Special Area of Conservation (Habitats Directive), The Wash Special Protected Area (Birds directive), the Wash Ramsar and SSSIs. 
     Abundance and weight by year-class and width is recorded from several sites within around 20 mussel beds in The Wash. 
     Data is initially recorded by hand then is input into MapInfo to make density charts; data is then exported into Excel tables for reference. 
     Surveys are conducted by day-grabs were access is available however foot surveys are conducted at some sites.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
2006 Couzens, G. South Devon distribution of Crassostrea gigas

Timed searches for the non-native Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, in the river estuaries of south Devon.  Records were collated by Gemma Couzens for the 2006 autumn edition of Shellfish News and were confirmed through contacting Gemma Couzens to have been collected during summer 2006.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
2011-Present Southern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority Annual Portland Mussel Survey

Drop down camera footage was used to assess the location of seed mussel beds at the Shambles in the Portland to Studland cSAC. Observations from film footage were used to map beds using MapInfo gis software. This data, DORIS data and historical fishing effort data, were used to define two areas available to the fishery within the cSAC.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
2015 - 2016 Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) and Environment Agency (EA) Tamar Estuary southwest England smelt and shad fish surveys EC18234

Beam and otter trawl surveys between Morwellham Quay and West Mud of the River Tamar, southwest England, for smelt and shad, between 2015-08-06 and 2016-03-14 recording total length and representative weights of targeted species and other fishes as part of contract EC18234 between Natural England, the Marine Biological Association and the Environment Agency.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
1848-1982 Lundy Field Society The Marine Fauna of Lundy

Collation of marine fauna records collected between 1848 and 1982 by taxonomic group experts. These records were digitised from pdf reports into MEDIN standard format.
      Phyla and other groups include: Bivalvia, Crustacea, Pycnogonida, Bryozoa, Ascidiacea, Pisces, Coelenterata, Echinodermata, Opisthobranchia, Prosobranchia, and Porifera
      Phyla and other groups that were not included in the lists were:
      Ctenophora (Comb-jellies / sea gooseberries)
      Platyhelminthes (Flatworms)
      Nematoda (Roundworms)
      Gastrotricha (Hairworms)
      Rotifera (Wheel animals)
      Nermertea (Ribbon worms)
      Cephalorhyncha
      Echiura (Spoon worms)
      Sipuncula (Peanut worms)
      Chaetognatha (Arrow worms)
      Phoronida (Horseshoe worms)
      Entoprocta (Goblet worms / Kamptozoans)
      Brachiopoda (Lampshells)
      Arthropoda: Crustacea: Cirripedia (barnacles) were not listed.
      Chordata: Mammalia (seals, whales and dolphins) were not listed.
      MR surveyCode MRMLN00100000075

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
2011 Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) Noss Mayo Yealm Estuary Transect Survey of Crassostrea gigas

Organised by the Marine Biological Association (MBA) in Plymouth, School students performed a transect survey of part of the Yealm estuary searching for the invasive pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas. They recorded abundance, length and width of the oysters. Staff from the MBA verified records.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
2010 Defra MB0106 Palaeolandscapes

This sub datalayer comprises marine and associated intertidal sites, findspots and palaeoenvironmental deposits and features located within the search area that date from the prehistoric period (deemed for the purposes of this study as dating from between 500,000 years BP up to the Roman period AD 43). One of a series of 4 Maritime Archaeology sub datalayers.

Organization: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network