Spatial Monitoring Data from the NMMP
The objectives of the NMMP are:
- to establish as precisely as practicable the spatial distribution of contaminants in UK waters and to identify their biological impact, thus identifying any areas of specific concern
- to detect trends in contaminant concentrations and biological well-being in those areas identified as being of concern
- to measure long-term natural trends in physical, biological and chemical parameters in selected areas
An initial spatial study was undertaken to achieve the first of these objectives.
The map below shows the locations of estuarine, intermediate and offshore sites in the UK National Monitoring Programme.
The spatial monitoring involves the following range of measurements
Data collected
A whole range of publications are available from the NMMP and the MPMMG
Cefas Publications:
- AEMR53: Monitoring and surveillance of non-radioactive contaminants in the aquatic environment and activities regulating the disposal of wastes at sea, 1998 (PDF, 2.65MB)
- AEMR52: Monitoring and surveillance of non-radioactive contaminants in the aquatic environment and activities regulating the disposal of wastes at sea, 1997 (PDF, 3.3MB)
- AEMR51: Monitoring and surveillance of non-radioactive contaminants in the aquatic environment and activities regulating the disposal of wastes at sea, 1995 and 1996 (PDF, 3.7MB)
- AEMR50: Marine Pollution Monitoring Management Group. Seventh Report of the Group Co-ordinating Sea Disposal Monitoring. (1997) (PDF, 1.3MB)
- AEMR49: MPMMG. The Group Co-ordinating Sea Disposal Monitoring. Final Report of the Metals Task Team and the Organic Task Team (PDF, 0.5MB)
- AEMR48: MPMMG. The Group Co-ordinating Sea Disposal Monitoring. Final Report of the Sediment Bioassay Task Team (PDF, 0.6MB)
- Towards 2000: Marine Monitoring in the 1990s (PDF, 1.6MB)
- SmartBuoy - A new data buoy for marine environmental monitoring (PDF, 0.5MB)
- A GIS-enabled website for publishing near real-time data from autonomous marine observing systems (PDF, 312 KB)
- SmartBuoy: A marine environmental monitoring buoy with a difference (PDF, 157 KB)
- Long time-series of horizontal waves, currents, suspended sediment and chlorophyll in the southern North Sea (PDF, 646KB)
Other NMMP Publications:
Data outputs from other activities of the MPMMG:
- National Marine Analytical Quality Control Schemes
- Sea Disposal Monitoring
- Effects of Marine Fish Farming
- Radioactivity in the Irish Sea
- Nutrient Studies
- Inputs
