National University of Ireland sponsored cruise of the Porcupine Bank with a multi-disciplinary objective.
Ireland's territorial seabed reaches more than 600 miles out into the Atlantic Ocean to waters of more than 4,500 metres in depth. The objective of the Seabed Survey is to collect detailed bathymetry (water depth) data and gain knowledge of the nature of the seabed and its overlying sediment. In …
Annual Marine Institute fisheries section Blue Whiting survey in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Northwest Herring Acoustic Survey Blue Whiting Gear Trials. The aim of the cruise was to test the gear and report any problems encountered with fish handling/wet lab.
As part of a large HEA funded PTRLI cycle 3 marine program currently underway at NUI, Galway ,a Multi-disciplinary survey of the deep waters west and north of Porcupine Bank was carried out, involving hydrographic measurements (including mooring and float deployment), deep water microbial and benthic sediment sampling (cores and …
Complete dataset of selected Underway observations and measurements include sea surface temperature, sea surface salinity, raw fluorometer voltage, air temperature, atmospheric pressure, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, vessel sounding and vessel navigation measurements including location, heave, pitch, roll, heading and speed.
This survey took place on board the RV Celtic Explorer in February 2017 led by the Marine Institute. The south Rockall Trough cruise facilitates long-term monitoring of the deep water environment to the west of Ireland. Oceanographic data collected contributes to the Atlantic observing system and survey results are included …
Nephrops norvegicus are common around the Irish coast, occurring in geographically distinct sandy or muddy areas where the sediment is suitable for construction of their burrow dwellings. The Marine Institute carries out Underwater TV surveys annually of commercially important Nephrops stocks. This dataset provides quality assured estimates of Nephrops burrow …
This Illustrates the existence or planned presence of marine renewable energy sites (wind farm authorisations) in Irish waters, as catalogued and displayed by 4C Offshore and DP Energy. The features were digitized manually from visualisations of windfarm authorisations viewable on https://www.4coffshore.com/offshorewind/ while the location for Inis Ealga was supplied in …
This contains records taken from the Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) dataset, updated in 2018 and published from the National Monuments Service Sites and Monuments Record. The ASI has focused on recording monuments dating from before AD 1700, along with more recent sites selected according to their interest or merit. …