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  Sandy Beach Monitoring (Greater Wellington Region)

Physical and biological monitoring of sandy beaches within the Greater Wellington region for Greater Wellington Regional Council.

Sampling sites are located on an eastern Wairarapa beach near Castlepoint.

Sampling frequency = annually for the first 3 years then 5yearly (Jan/Feb/Mar).

Sampling began in 2008 and is ongoing.

Number of sites = 2 total on 1 beach.

Extent of site = 2 transects spaced 50m apart spanning from high to low water marks.

Number of replicates = 2 transects per site, 6 stations per transect, 3 replicate infaunal cores per station.

Measured variables = Infaunal communities using 1mm mesh (species identified to lowest taxonomic level possible and enumerated).

Sediment characteristics: grain size, redox (in field) and salinity.

Sampling protocol & QA = Protocol similar to Aerts et al. (2004). External taxonomic identification of infauna.

 
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. Sandy Beach Monitoring (Greater Wellington Region). https://dc.niwa.co.nz:/niwa_dc/srv/api/records/28958ea0-bbeb-41dd-844d-5e16bf7f703d
 

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Credit
Greater Wellington Regional Council
Status
On going

  Point of contact

Greater Wellington Regional Council - Juliet Milne (Environmental Science Team Leader )  
142 Wakefield Street Wellington 6142 New Zealand

  +64 4 384 5708 or 0800 496 734 (within New Zealand)  
  +64 4 385 6960 
Website
Greater Wellington Regional Council  

Link to the Greater Wellington Regional Council website

Keywords
  • marine coastal benthic soft ecological physical visual observation core
Specific usage
MEMP

 

 
Use limitation
Restricted. Permission required from the Greater Wellington Regional Council to release data/reports.
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
Description
Castlepoint
N
S
E
W


OnLine resource
Point of truth URL of this metadata record  

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

OnLine resource
Link to reports available at the GWRC website  

Link to reports available at the GWRC website

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Dataset
Statement

Temporal data were in NZST.

Data collection information: Infaunal core = 330mm x 150mm square stainless steel box corer (0.1089m2), Seive mesh = 1mm, sediment sample = top 20mm surface sediment collected

Limitation: No QA procedure mentioned

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28958ea0-bbeb-41dd-844d-5e16bf7f703d   XML
Date stamp
2012-08-07T19:36:01
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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NIWA National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research - Data curator  

 
 

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