f2ff1c6d-bf10-4b89-8f7b-70587abf36a9 Data curator NIWA National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research curator@niwa.co.nz 2012-08-10T08:53:27 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 Waimea Inlet State of the Environment This record summarises the state of the environment monitoring for Waimea Estuary.Waimea Estuary was one of the estuaries used during the initial development of the Estuary Monitoring Protocol (EMP) Temporal coverage: from 2011 (ongoing) Number of sites: 4 Sampling Frequency: 5 yearly Main marine environment sampled: Estuarine Depth zone: Intertidal Sediment type: Soft Community association: Mudflats Sampling method: Sediment cores, infauna cores, photos, field observation Parameters collected: Infauna/epifauna communities, physical parameters, benthic microalgae, benthic macroalgae Measured variables: epifauna/infauna diversity & abundances Metals, TN, TP, AFDW, Grain-size, Chl-a, , RPD layer, and in 2001 % cover of macroalgae Species/Community data: Benthic invertebrates, and in 2001 macroalgae (? 0.5 mm) Other data collected: unknown Collection: ongoing Quality assurance: Unknown Tasman District Council AND Cawthron Institute Paul Gillespie Cawthron Institute +64 3 548 2319 +64 3 546 9464 98 Halifax Street East Nelson 7010 New Zealand paul.gillespie@cawthron.org.nz http://www.cawthron.org.nz/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Link to the website of the Cawthron Institute estuarine benthic soft ecological physical chemistry core photograph visual observation MEMP No known constraints. eng oceans Waimea Estuary 173.141 173.169 -41.307 -41.289 2001-01-01T00:01:00 https://dc.niwa.co.nz/niwa_dc/srv/metadata/f2ff1c6d-bf10-4b89-8f7b-70587abf36a9 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--metadata-URL Point of truth URL of this metadata record