61ce24a7-75b6-4968-ab0a-263d7dd5ef8a National Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage Ecological Data Manager +353-1-8882000 n/a National Parks and Wildlife Service 90 North King Street Dublin 7 D07 N7CV Ireland datadelivery@housing.gov.ie 2023-11-16T17:00:21 ISDI Metadata Profile 1.2 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25 4326 http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326 Seabird Monitoring undertaken during the Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS) 2019 2019 Seabird monitoring WESPAS 2022-06-01 Seabird Monitoring undertaken during the Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS) 2019 https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ A seabird survey during the annual Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS), running from 13th of June to 4th of July and the 4th to 24th July 2019. A standard line transect survey methodology was employed by the seabird survey team with additional visual point sampling at fishing locations and oceanographic sampling stations. Survey transects were undertaken at speeds of 5-10 knots, with fishing activity being conducted at speeds of 2-3 knots. The seabird observer’s survey effort was maximized and optimized during periods of sea state less than or equal to sea state 6 and with visibility of greater than 300m. A total of 225 hours and 40 minutes of survey effort was conducted over the course of the WESPAS 2019 survey, 125 hours and 3 minutes of survey effort was conducted on Leg 1, while 100 hours and 37 minutes of survey effort was conducted on Leg 2 of the survey. In total, 187 hours and 36 minutes of survey effort were conducted using a line transect methodology, while 38 hours and 4 minutes of effort were conducted using the point sampling methodology. A total of 4528 seabird sightings were recorded throughout the survey, totalling 24866 individuals, with flock size ranging from 1 up to 2000 for some species. In total, 7074 seabirds were recorded as ‘in-transect’ during line transect survey effort. A total of 25 species of seabird were encountered during the survey. A further 23 sightings of terrestrial birds were also recorded, comprising of 56 individuals belonging to 10 species’. To collect data on birds at sea during the Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey. National Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage Ecological Data Manager +353-1-8882000 n/a National Parks and Wildlife Service 90 North King Street Dublin 7 D07 N7CV Ireland datadelivery@housing.gov.ie Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 GEMET 2008-12-05 biota, biodiversity, animal population, bird GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.3 2021-12-06 National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, bird, Birds Directive, biodiversity National Parks and Wildlife Service 2012-07-20 Ireland ISO 3166 ISO Country List 2008-12-13 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Copyright Government of Ireland. This dataset was created by National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. This copyright material is licensed for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 50000 environment -18.427734375 -6.298828125 51.533267498016 58.740298748015995 2022-06-01 2022-07-01 0 1014 An Ordnance Datum or OD is a vertical datum used by an ordnance survey as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps. A spot height may be expressed as AOD for "above ordnance datum". Usually mean sea level (MSL) is used for the datum. Malin Ordnance Datum Derivation of vertical height or depth (in metres) In the Republic of Ireland, OD for the Ordnance Survey of Ireland is Malin Ordnance Datum: the Mean Sea Level (MSL) at Portmoor Pier, Malin Head, County Donegal, between 1960 and 1969. 5731 EPSG Projection 5731 - Malin Head height Metres Derivation of Altitude OD based on Mean Sea Level, Malin Head 1960-1969 Esri shapefile v10+ National Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage Ecological Data Manager +353-1-8882000 n/a National Parks and Wildlife Service 90 North King Street Dublin 7 D07 N7CV Ireland datadelivery@housing.gov.ie.ie https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/general/WPAS19.zip zip Seabird Monitoring undertaken during the Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS) 2019 dataset published on NPWS website INSPIRE Data Specification on Provide Spatial Data Theme keyword INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0 2011-06-15 The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment. false 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 INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation 2010-12-08 Level of conformance with the 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 false Cybertracker was used to record all positional, environmental and sightings data. Using a portable GPS receiver with USB connection, the Cybertracker software automatically recorded the ships position directly into a Microsoft Access database every 5 seconds. Environmental data was regularly recorded using Cybertracker, including at the start of each seabird survey transect, and included data such as; wind speed, wind direction, sea state, swell, visibility, cloud cover and precipitation. The data was time stamped with GPS data by Cybertracker and saved in the Access database. If environmental conditions changed at any point, the seabird observer recorded an environmental update of the above listed data. Each line transect was assigned a unique transect number, and a new transect was started anytime the vessel activity changed (i.e. changing from on-transect to inter-transect).