Broadscale Environmental Monitoring Program (BEMP) sites
This dataset depicts the location of the Broadscale Environmental Monitoring Program (BEMP) sites. It was compiled from data provided by EPA Tasmania, IMAS and published reports.
BEMP was initiated in 2009 by the State Government to provide knowledge and information on ecosystem function in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel and Huon Estuary. BEMPs have been developed for all marine farming regions. The objective of each program is to document (on an ongoing basis) broadscale spatial and temporal trends for key environmental parameters, allowing assessment of the environmental effects of finfish aquaculture in Tasmania. Marine farming licence conditions include participation in respective BEMPs.
The BEMP program initially covered assessment of water column and sediment health at a broadscale level but has been expanded to include inshore reef, deep-reef and seagrass distribution and health. Seagrass monitoring occurs over transects. In this dataset, only the start location is displayed. Sediment sampling includes benthic infauna, stable isotopes, particle size, visual assessment, redox analysis, and sulphide measurements. Visual assessment, redox and sulphide analysis is carried out each year, while analysis of benthic infauna, stable isotopes and particle size is undertaken every four years. In the intervening years these samples are collected, preserved and retained. Water quality analytes include physico-chemical parameters (temperature, dissolved oxygen and salinity), nutrients (dissolved nutrients: ammonia, nitrate, phosphate, and silicate, nutrients: total nitrogen, total phosphorous), chlorophyll a and phytoplankton species counts. Water quality sampling is undertaken monthly from May to January and fortnightly from February to April.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-01-11T00:00:00
Resource provider
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
- Credit
- Data provided by Environment Protection Agency (EPA) Tasmania
- Credit
- The Tasmania's Marine Atlas was funded by FRDC
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Oceans
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2009-01-01
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Global Change Master Directory Earth Science Keywords, Version 8.5
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- Data, products and services from IMAS are provided "as is" without any warranty as to fitness for a particular purpose.
- Use limitation
- Data to be displayed in the Tasmania's Marine Atlas only
Resource constraints
- Other constraints
- This dataset is the intellectual property of the University of Tasmania (UTAS) through the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS).
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Website
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- The citation in a list of references is: "Citation author name/s (year metadata published), metadata title. Citation author organisation/s. File identifier and Data accessed at (add http link)."
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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Map only
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Map only
- OnLine resource
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BEMP reports by reporting regions
- OnLine resource
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View map of BEMP sites in Tasmania's Marine Atlas
Resource lineage
- Statement
- A spatial layer was created from geographic coordinates of the location of the monitoring sites and associated information.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/9aeec780-ece8-4dfc-84e1-5badcc2c99a0
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distributor
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Name
- IMAS Dataset level record
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/9aeec780-ece8-4dfc-84e1-5badcc2c99a0
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-09-25T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-02-08T10:46:03
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018