Bay of Plenty Marine Sediment Contaminants

Chemical monitoring of sediments in estuaries within the Bay of Plenty region for Environment Bay of Plenty. Sampling sites are located in Tauranga and Ohiwa Harbours.

Sampling frequency = 3yearly (winter).

Sampling began in 2003 and is ongoing.

Number of sites = 38 total: Tauranga (31), ?hiwa (7).

Extent of site = 20m diameter circle plot at approximately mid-tide mark.

Number of replicates = 1 per site (composed of 15 sub-samples).

Measured variables = Sediment characteristics (TOC, cadmium, nickel, lead, zinc, chromium, arsenic and copper).

Sampling protocol & QA = Internal protocol and QA procedures. Collection of surface sediment (top 2cm) form sites. Sediment analysis external (Malvern Particle Analyser).

 
Citation proposal
. Bay of Plenty Marine Sediment Contaminants. https://dc.niwa.co.nz:/niwa_dc/srv/api/records/d1198485-5fe7-4111-916a-917bb3542c29
 

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Credit
Environment Bay of Plenty
Status
On going

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  0800 884 882 
Website
Environment Bay of Plenty  

Link to the Environment Bay of Plenty website

Keywords
  • marine estuarine coastal benthic soft chemistry core
Specific usage
MEMP

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Use limitation
Restricted. Permission of Environment Bay of Plenty to release data/reports.
Access constraints
Restricted
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
Description
Tauranga Harbour and Ohiwa Harbour
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OnLine resource
Point of truth URL of this metadata record  

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

OnLine resource
Link to the Environment Bay of Plenty website for the State of Environment reports  

Link to the Environment Bay of Plenty website for the State of Environment reports

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Dataset
Statement

Quality assurance was imposed on methods.

Geographic data used NZTM (LINZ). Temporal data were in NZST.

Data collection information: Sediment sample = top 20mm surface sediment collected.

Origin from which minimum and maximum values are measured: chart datum

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d1198485-5fe7-4111-916a-917bb3542c29   XML
Date stamp
2012-08-08T15:00:19
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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