Proceedings
of the marine species recording workshop
29
& 30 January 1998
Supplement
Current marine species
record collections in the UK and suggestions for links to future national
schemes.
Compiled by Keith Hiscock
Reference (if referred to separately)
This list of marine species record collections has been compiled mainly from the results of a questionnaire circulated at the Marine Species Recording Workshop held at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 29 & 30 January 1998 (Foster-Smith 1998). The list is for plants, invertebrates and fish. Specifically mammal or bird lists are not included. The separate collections identified here have, as far as possible, been ordered geographically as many are regional collections. Records in survey reports are not included. Records maintained by institutes, museums, wildlife trusts and societies or similar bodies ('Institutional records’) are included together with significant and systematically maintained records of individuals ('personal records’). The list includes defunct but revivable schemes. It is intended to expand this list for Britain and Ireland.
If you are involved in a marine species
recording scheme, please check that your scheme is listed and is accurately
described. The list is being maintained within the Marine Life Information
Network (MarLIN) project based at the Marine Biological Association. The
contact point there for additions and corrections to this list is Alison
Hood (ahoo@pml.ac.uk). The up-to-date list can, once installed, be viewed
on the MBA web-site (http://www1.npm.ac.uk/mba).
Keith Hiscock
14 August 1998
Reference
|
and brief description |
Contact Name and Address |
| UK
Marine algal collections
(Being catalogued and entered to a database) |
Ian
Tittley
Botany Department The Natural History Museum Cromwell Road London SW7 5DB Tel: 0171 9389264 Fax: 0171 9389260 Email: it@nhm.ac.uk |
| Biological
Records Centre Records of:
Marine algae Marine Mollusca Isopod Crustacea Echinodermata Shore fishes (Recording cards were produced for the above groups in the 1970's and early 1980's. Status of records entered to BRC is uncertain. Marine algae scheme now with British Phycological Society. See separate entry). |
Biological
Records Centre
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology Monks Wood Experimental Station Abbots Ripton Huntingdon PE17 2LS Tel: 01487 3381 Fax: 01487 3467 Email: pha@wpo.nerc.ac.uk Marine algae: Ian Tittley Botany Department The Natural History Museum Cromwell Road London SW7 5DB Tel: 0171 9289264 Fax: 0171 9289260 Email: it@nhm.ac.uk |
| Marine
Conservation Society Observation Scheme
Records held on postcards. Restricted check-list of species. |
Jon
Moore
OPRU Dolphin Court Braines Quay Newland Pembrokeshire SA73 1PY Tel: 01646 691000 Fax: 1646 469939 Email: jon@opm.co.uk |
| National
Monitoring Programme
UK-wide. 87 sites. Involves EA, CEFAS, SOAFD, DANI, DoE(NI), SEPA. Records of macrofaunal species recorded in samples of intertidal and subtidal sediment benthos. |
Graeme
Storey
National Centre for Environmental Data and Surveillance Environment Agency Lower Bristol Road Bath BA2 9ES Tel: 01278 457333 Fax: 01225 469939 Email:graeme.storey@environment_agency.gov.uk |
| Marine
and estuarine fish database
Established originally as the 'Rare marine fish database’ with funding from the nature conservation agencies to the Marine Biological Association. Transferred in 1997 to the National Marine Aquarium at Plymouth. Access status is currently uncertain as the database is held by the Marine and Estuarine Fish Advisory Service. New records continue to be maintained by the NMA. Includes a Welsh fish database. |
The
National Marine Aquarium
The Barbican Plymouth PL4 OLH Tel: 01752 600301 Fax: 01752 600593 Marine and Estuarine Fish Advisory Service Higher Brooklands Harrowbarrow Callington Cornwall PL17 8JN Tel/Fax: 01822 832753 Email: britfish@plymouth.swis.net |
| NE
Atlantic Pycnogonidae
Records contributing to personal research and to the Linnean Society Synopsis. |
Dr
Roger Bamber
Department of Zoology The Natural History Museum Cromwell Road London SW7 5DB Tel: 0171 9389370 Fax: 0171 9388754 Email: r.bamber@nhm.ac.uk |
| British
Phycological Society Recording Scheme
The BPS has collected records during many past annual field events which are published in a series of papers in the Bulletin or Journal of the BPS. The records are being brought together into a database. |
Dr
Gavin Hardy
British Phycological Society Department of Marine Sciences and Coastal Management University of Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU Tel: 0191 2226661 Fax: 0191 2227891 Email: f.g.hardy@ncl.ac.uk |
| Marine
Nature Conservation Review database
Includes all of the records from MNCR surveys and from many other data sources which describe seabed marine biology in inshore area of Britain. Total of 30,000 survey station records. The database is being maintained and developed by JNCC. |
Dr
Steve Wilkinson
Marine & Coastal Data Custodian Joint Nature Conservation Committee Monkstone House Peterborough PE1 1JY Tel: 01733 866860 Fax: 01733 562626 Email: wilkin_s@jncc.gov.uk |
| British
Marine Life Study Society
Members records of seashore species. Requires collation and entering to database once database standards established. |
Andy
Horton
Glaucus House 14 Corbyn Crescent Shoreham-by-Sea Sussex BN43 6PQ Tel: 01273 465433 |
| Conchological
Society of Great Britain
A major dataset of marine mollusc occurrences around Great Britain and Ireland. |
Jan
Light
Conchological Society 88 Peperharrow Road Godalming Surrey GU7 2PN Tel: 01483 417782 email: jan@aquamar.dem.co.uk |
| 'Local’ Fauna and Flora Lists | |
| St
Andrews Fauna
Published as a book. Records are maintained by the Marine Laboratory at St Andrews University. |
Prof.
Chris Todd
Galty Marine Laboratory University of St Andrews St Andrews Fife KY16 8LB Tel: 01334 463444 Fax: 01334 463443 email: cdt@st-andrews.ac.uk |
| Cullercoats
Marine Fauna
Published as a series and now being updated. |
Dr
Judy Foster-Smith
Dove Marine Laboratory Cullercoats North Shields Tyne and Wear NE30 4PZ Tel: 0191 2524850 Fax: 0191 2521054 email: judy.foster-smith@ncl.ac.uk |
| Plymouth
Marine Fauna
Last published in 1957, now being revised and put on an electronic platform. |
Alison
Hood
Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom The Laboratory Citadel Hill Plymouth PL1 2PB Tel: 10752 633133 Fax: 01752 633102 |
| Isles
of Scilly marine fauna
Published as a series in the Journal of Natural History. No revision planned. (See entry for ERCCIS). (See Hiscock 1998 for a full list of contributing papers) |
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| Lundy
marine fauna
Published as a series in the Report of the Lundy Field Society. No revision planned. (See Hiscock 1997 for a full list of contributing papers) Record cards held by Keith Hiscock. |
Dr
Keith Hiscock
English Nature Northminster House Peterborough PE1 1UA Tel: 01733 455235 Fax: 01733 568834 email: keith.hiscock@english_nature.org.uk |
| Intertidal
invertebrate fauna of the Severn Estuary
Boyden, C.R., Crothers, J.H., Little, C., & Mettam, C. 1977. The intertidal invertebrate fauna of the Severn Estuary. Field Studies, 4: 477-554. Records for the English coast maintained by John Crothers. |
Dr
John Crothers
The Leonard Wills Field Centre Nettlecombe Court Williton Taunton Somerset Tel: 01984 640320 e-mail: fsc.nettlecombe@ukonline.co.uk |
| Records for the Welsh coast maintained by Chris Mettam | Dr
Chris Mettam
School of Pure and Applied Biology The University of Wales Cardiff PO Box 915 Cardiff CF1 3TL Tel: 01222 874000 Fax: 01222 874503 |
| Cornwall
and the Isles of Scilly
Maintained as a computer database and on paper by the Environmental Records Centre for Cornwell and the Isles of Scilly (ERCCIS). [Dr Paul Gainey also maintains personal records and can be contacted through ERCCIS.] |
Pamela
Tomsett/Paul McCartney
ERCCIS Cornwall Wildlife Trust Five Acres Allet Truro Cornwall TR4 9DJ Tel: 01782 273939 Fax: 01782 225476 email: petomp@cornwt.demon.co.uk |
| Devon,
including the Cornish side of the Tamar/Plymouth Sound and Lyme Bay
Records are maintained by the Devon Wildlife Trust on the MNCR database and therefore incorporated into the national database. The records include historical data. |
Jenny
Glanville
Devon Wildlife Trust Shirehampton House 35-37 St David’s Hill Exeter EX4 4DA Tel: 10392 279244 Fax: 01392 433221 email: jglanville@mail.inxpress.co.uk |
| Plymouth
Marine Fauna
The PMF is currently being updated and put on an electronic database. Revisions include a large number of local records especially for Salcombe area collected by Dr Preece (Cambridge University). |
Alison
Hood
Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom The Laboratory Citadel Hill Plymouth PL1 2PB Tel: 01752 633133 email: ahoo@pml.ac.uk |
| Dale
Fort Marine Fauna & Pembrokeshire marine species atlas
Crothers, J.H. 1996. Dale Fort Marine Fauna. Field Studies. (Supplement to Volume 2). The Dale Fort Marine Fauna includes west Pembrokeshire from the south shore of St Bride’s Bay, the offshore islands and Milford Haven. Records are no longer maintained by Dale Fort. The Pembrokeshire marine species atlas is funded by the Countryside Council for Wales and managed from the Skomer MNR office. Work has been undertaken by Dale Rostron. The data includes all of the records on the Dale Fort Marine Fauna and much more data from subsequent and prior surveys. Flora and fauna are included. Data is held on a Microsoft Access database combined with Map Information. Further funding is required to continue the work. |
Blaise
Bullimore
Countryside Council for Wales Skomer MNR Fishermans Cottage Martins Haven Haverfordwest Pembrokeshire SA62 3BJ Tel: 01646 636736 Fax: 01646 636744 email: skomer.mnr@ccw.gov.uk Dale Rostron 13/14 Merlins Cross Lower Lampley Road Pembroke SA71 2DL Tel: 01646 681414 Fax: 01646 686870 email: micro_d@compuserve.com |
| Irish
Sea Fauna
The Biomôr programme has sampled extensively from the Southern Irish Sea. Records are maintained at the National Museum of Wales. |
Dr
Andrew Mackie
National Museum and Gallery Cathays Park Cardiff CF1 3NP Tel: 01222 373311 Fax: 01222 239829 email: andrew.mackie@nmgw.ac.uk |
| North
Wales marine fauna
A card index of records mainly from Easter field courses held at Menai Bridge. The card index is now inactive. |
Inv
Rees
School of Ocean Sciences University of Wales Bangor Menai Bridge LL59 5EU Tel: 01248 382875 Fax: 01248 716367 email: oss058@sos.bangor.ac.uk |
| Isle of Man marine fauna | |
| Fauna
of the Clyde Sea Area
Published as a series of volumes. (For a list, see Hiscock 1998a). Records are not currently being maintained but UMBSM would wish to revive recording if finance is available. |
Prof.
P. Geoff Moore
University Marine Biological Station Millport Isle of Cumbrae Tel: 01475 530581 Fax: 01475 530601 email: pmoore@udcf.gla.ac.uk |
| Northern
Ireland Intertidal and Subtidal Surveys
Work commissioned by the Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland) and undertaken in the 1980's. Any additional records are held by the Ulster Museum. |
Bernard
Picton
Department of Zoology Ulster Museum Belfast Northern Ireland BT9 5AB Tel: 01232 383000 email: bernard.picton.um@nics.gov.uk |
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Contact Name and Address | |
| Booth
Museum, Brighton
Historical records specimens. The museum holds a copy of the MNCR database used for Seasearch records. |
Dr
Gerald Legg
Curator of Biology Booth Museum 194 Dyke Road Brighton E. Sussex |
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| North
Devon Museum:
South West Water collection from Barnstaple Bay. Worked sediment samples (inc. worms, byrozoans, molluscs). Also historical shell collection and herbarium. |
Jerry
Lee
North Devon Museum Service The Square Barnstaple Devon EX31 8LN Tel: 01271 346747 |
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| Marine
mollusc shells, harbaria (Griffiths & Harvey). Carpenter collection
of foraminifera fossils.
Sladen College of Echinoderms. |
Royal
Albert Museum
Nat. Hist. Curator - David Bolton Queen Street Exeter EX4 3RX Tel: 01392 265858 |
|
| Invertebrate
samples.
Amelia Griffiths algal collection (1830s). |
Mike
Bishop
Torquay Museum Babbacombe Road Torquay Devon TQ1 1HG Tel: 01803 293975 |
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| Historic invertebrates (wet preserved) purchased from MBA in 1920s. Specimens and herbaria. | Helen
Birchmore
Plymouth City Museum Drake Circus Plymouth Tel: 01752 264878 |
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| Marine molluscs (Cornwall) - day collection | R
D Penhallurick
Royal Cornwall Museum River Street Truro |
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| Molluscs (Cornwall) - day collection | S
M Turk
Shangrila Reskadinmick Camborne TR14 0BH |
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| Marine algal collections (Cornwall) - Smitham & Tellam | R
D Penhallurick
Royal Cornwall Museum River Street Truro |
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| Algal collection ?Victorian (Cornwall) - dry herbarium type | Bodmin
Museum
Main Square Bodmin Cornwall |
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| Benthic Samples for some Lochs of the Scottish West Coast and deep sea (Rockall) | Dr
John Gage
Centre for Coastal and Marine Science Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory PO Box 3 Oban Argyll PA34 4AD Tel: 01631 562244 Fax: 01631 565518 |
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| Benthic Samples of Scottish West Coast | Dr
Tom Pearson
SEAS Ltd 23 Stevenson Street Oban Argyll PA34 5NA Tel: 01631 566877 Fax: 01631 564124 |
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| Fish of the Scottish Coast | Dr
John Gordon
SAMS PO Box 3 Oban Argyll PA34 4AD Tel: 01631 562444 Fax: 01631 565518 |
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| Collation of species lists for Scottish Waters including MNCE, ITE, seaweed, mollusc, fish and all above. | Marius
Kiemer
CCMS Dunstaffnage PO Box 3 Oban Argyll PA34 4AD Tel: 01631 562244 Fax: 01631 565518 email: mck@dml.ac.uk |
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| Old SAMS and SMBA collections in Library. | Eleanor
Walton
CCMS Dunstaffnage PO Box 3 Oban Argyll PA34 4AD Tel: 01631 562244 Fax: 01631 565518 |
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| Offshore grabs sampling surveys in Liverpool Bay (1970-1995), off North Wales and off Morecambe Bay (gas fields). | Ivor
Rees
School of Ocean Sciences University of Wales Bangor Menai Bridge LL59 5EY Tel: 01248 382875 Fax: 01248 716367 email: oss058@SOS.bangor.ac.uk |
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| Marine algae records for Norfolk | Ian
Tittley
Botany Department Natural History Museum Cromwell Road London SW7 5DB Tel: 0171 9389264 Fax: 0171 9389260 email: it@nhm.ac.uk |
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| Marine algae records for Kent to 1980 | Ian
Tittley
Botany Department Natural History Museum Cromwell Road London SW7 5DB Tel: 0171 9389264 Fax: 0171 9389260 email: it@nhm.ac.uk |
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| Marine algae records for Sussex | Ian
Tittley
Botany Department Natural History Museum Cromwell Road London SW7 5DB Tel: 0171 9389264 Fax: 0171 9389260 email: it@nhm.ac.uk |
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| Incidental species records from CCW Phase 1 surveys in Wales. | Gabrielle
Moffett
Countryside Council for Wales Plas Penrhos Bangor Gwynedd LL57 2LQ |
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| Intertidal
flora and fauna of Hannafore Reef, Looe, Cornwall
Database held at Plymouth University. |
Dr
Geoff Wigham
Department of Biological Sciences The University Drakes Circus Plymouth Tel: 01752 600600 email: g.wigham@plymouth.ac.uk |
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| Centre for Coastal and Marine Science Plymouth - benthic samples/meiofauna database | Dr
Richard Warwick/Dr Bob Clarke
CCMS Plymouth Prospect Place West Hoe Plymouth Tel: 01752 633000 Fax: 01752 633101 email: rmw@wpo.nerc.ac.uk |
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| Mollusca principally from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland but also England, Wales, Scotland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands c. 20,000 records. | Dr
Julia Nunn
Cherry Cottage 11 Ballyhaft Road Newtownards Co Down Northern Ireland BT22 2AW Work address: CEDAR Project Zoology Department The Ulster Museum Belfast BT9 5AB Tel: 01232 383153 Fax: 01232 383103 email: julia.nunn.um@nics.gov.uk |
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References
The comments from workshop contribution are answers to the question:
"If you are involved with a local Marine Species Recording Scheme what do you feel would be the method most appropriate to your own Scheme which would enable you to contribute to, and integrate with, species information from national sources?"
2. Data Standards for What, Where, When, Who.
3. Transfer standards to a national database eg the New Recorder for transfer of data from spreadsheets and flat form databases.
4. Facility in the national database for entering and storing occasional records.
5. Standardised package for grab datasets compatible with other systems.
6. A standard database framework, set out and agreed upon by all local record centres. This would ensure compatibility between databases improving the ability to share data.
7. Having a co-ordinating body to refer to for assistance and access to other additional sources of information. Such as the proposed "UK Marine Biology" consortium.
8. Better communication (by any means you like) and awareness.
9. A good working marine database. Financial support ("seed money")
for recording schemes.
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