Crown Copyright and Third party copyrights

All information provided by the Scottish Association for Marine Science on the web pages of its Scottish Marine Institute is made available to provide immediate access for the convenience of interested persons.

While SAMS believes the information to be reliable, human or mechanical error remains a possibility. Therefore, SAMS does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or correct sequencing of the information.

Neither SAMS nor any of the sources of the information shall be responsible for any errors or omissions, or for the use of or results obtained from the use of this information.

Information at the SAMS site is:

• general information provided as part of the SAMS commitment to publicising its activities and disseminating of information relating to its organisation
• subject to the usual uncertainties of research
• subject to change without notice
• not to be relied on as the basis for doing or failing to do something.

Links to and from the SAMS website are:

• not endorsed by SAMS
• not prohibited by SAMS (either to the front page of through deep linking)
• for convenience only and do not mean that SAMS endorses or approves those other sites, their content or the people who run them
• for the Internet user to make their own decisions about the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of information found at sites linked from this website, rather than the responsibility of SAMS

Data provided by the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU)

If used, any layers should be acknowledged with

© Sea Mammal Research Unit

The Spatial Hub's remit is to collate and standardise Scottish local authority's spatial data to form coherent, up-to-date national datasets, that can be shared with the data community to provide better insight, analysis and innovation. Currently, Spatial Hub data is only available to members of the One Scotland Mapping Agreement (OSMA)

The following acknowledgement must accompany the reproduced BGS material:

'Reproduced with the permission of the British Geological Survey © NERC. All rights Reserved'

Where figures, sketches, illustrations, diagrams, map extracts or cross-sections are used as the basis of specifically generated illustrations, the source of the material should be cited as follows:

'Based upon [source details], with the permission of the British Geological Survey'.

Where the Carbon Capture and Storage data are referenced the material should be cited as follows:

"Based upon data provided with the permission of the British Geological Survey © NERC, as used in connection with ‘Opportunities for CO2 Storage around Scotland’ report, Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage, 2009."

Reproduction of any BGS materials does not amount to an endorsement by NERC or any of its employees of any product or service and no such endorsement should be stated or implied.