Coastal Monitoring Site: Stonehaven

The Stonehaven monitoring site is on the east coast of Scotland,approximately eight miles to the south of Aberdeen, and has been an active monitoring site since 1997. This site fulfills the monitoring requirements of EU Water
Framework Directive and EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive.
The Stonehaven monitoring site is 50 m in depth and located 5 km offshore. The coastline in this region is relatively straight and the whole area is very exposed to the North Sea. At the site tidal stirring mixes the water column, but stratification due to freshwater run-off and the seasonal heating/cooling cycle can also occur at times.
Since 2000, water column profiles using CTDs were made, in addition to the water samples collected from the site, using the RV Temora (Figure 3.11). In addition, in 2015 the minilogger from Findon/Cove bay was deployed to a site in Stonehaven
harbour.

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Coastal Monitoring
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Full weekly resolution data sets for environmental data, secchi depth, and zooplankton concentrations are available from the Marine Scotland Data portal (See Data sources tab below). 

 

Data originators: 
Scottish Government (Marine Directorate)
Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - 09:35

Links and Resources

Map Type Click title for metadata and licence informationsort descending Date of data View Map
External Interactive Maps or Portals Marine Scotland Science - Coastal Monitoring Sites View Map (external source)
Type Link Titlesort descending External Link
Data Portals COPEPOD - Global Plankton Database www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov
Marine Scotland Data Portal Scottish Coastal Observatory - Stonehaven Site data.marine.gov.scot
Marine Scotland Data Portal Scottish Coastal Observatory Data data.marine.gov.scot
Data Portals Stonehaven Time Series data on NOAA COPEPOD www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov
Type Title External link
Marine Scotland Data Portal The Scottish Coastal Observatory 1997-2013, parts 1-3 data.marine.gov.scot
Reports ICES Zooplankton Status Report 2010/2011 ices.dk
Reports ICES Phytoplankton and Microbial Plankton Status Report 2009/2010 www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov