cd65ed69-ca0c-91ab-6ee0-98eab9a65dfc eng utf8 dataset custodian NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research +64 4 386 0300 voice +64 4 386 0574 facsimile 301 Evans Bay Parade Hataitai Wellington 6021 New Zealand curator@niwa.co.nz http://www.niwa.co.nz Website of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand - experts in environmental science Data curator 2015-05-12T09:09:37 creation ISO 19115-3 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP NZST/NZDT NIWA A-Y surface sediment data standardised dbseabed format 2015-02-10 creation revision NIWA surface sediment data from the NZOI A-Y stations that have been standardised to the dbseabed format. NIWA samples have been processed and QC'd by INSTAAR University of Colorado, Boulder. dbSEABED creates unified, detailed mappings of the materials that make the seafloor by efficiently integrating thousands of individual datasets. The goal is to bring decades of seabed information - and today's information - from marine geology, biology, engineering and surveys into one seabed mapping that can fulfil the community needs for ocean-bottom information on many spatial scales. The system deals with seabed texture, composition, acoustic properties, colour, geology and biology. Quality assurance is achieved by checks on data at data entry, by error-trapping in the data-processing software, and by working the data intensively in various collaborative research programs. dbSEABED was devised to be robust in an inexact and incomplete information environment - marine geosciences. There are two versions of the data available: (1) the archives data, which are available as MS Excel spreadsheets - one for each letter of the A-Z station registers; (2) NIWA nzSeabed standard data, which is the same standard afters being standardised by dbSeabed and are available as ASCII text files. The data are available at either Q:\Ocean_Geology\Sediment%20samples/ or file://niwa.local/groups/wellington/Ocean_Geology/Sediment%20samples/ These data are appropriate for plotting and further analyses. Helen Bostock, Kevin Mackay, Chris Jenkins (INSTAAR) completed principalInvestigator NIWA Helen Bostock Scientist coInvestigator NIWA Kevin Mackay Technician textTable oceans New Zealand Region 157,-24 200,-24 200,-57.5 157,-57.5 157,-24 157 190 -57.5 -24.000000000000003 https://dc.niwa.co.nz:/niwa_dc/srv/api/records/cd65ed69-ca0c-91ab-6ee0-98eab9a65dfc/attachments/met_domnc_3d_s.png thumbnail png https://dc.niwa.co.nz:/niwa_dc/srv/api/records/cd65ed69-ca0c-91ab-6ee0-98eab9a65dfc/attachments/met_domnc_3d.png large_thumbnail png sediment analysis seafloor restricted eng https://dc.niwa.co.nz/niwa_dc/srv/metadata/cd65ed69-ca0c-91ab-6ee0-98eab9a65dfc WWW:LINK-1.0-http--metadata-URL Point of truth URL of this metadata record file://niwa.local/groups/wellington/Ocean_Geology/Sediment%20samples/ Data can be accessed at either Q:\Ocean_Geology\Sediment%20samples/ or file://niwa.local/groups/wellington/Ocean_Geology/Sediment%20samples/. Contact the authors or the Ocean Sediment Group Manager for access dataset restricted