EDMED Details

General

Dataset Name

Specific pollutants and radioactivity in Adriatic open waters (seawater, suspended matter, plankton) during ASCOP project (1979-84,89,90)

Data Holding Centre

OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography

Time Period

from 1979 to 1984 (Phase 1), 1989 to 1990 (Phase 2)

Start Date

1979-01-01

End Date

1990-12-31

Project

Adriatic Scientific COoperation Program

Geographic Area

Geocoverage

9 stations located on the boundary of international waters in the Northern Adriatic Sea and 4 stations in the Middle Adriatic Sea (transect Pescara-Sibenik), as part of the station grid of the ASCOP Monitoring Program

Geographic Box (south,north,west,east)

40, 13, 20, 46

Sea Area

Mediterranean Sea

Adriatic Sea

Observations

Parameters

Dissolved metal concentrations in the water column

Particulate metal concentrations in the water column

Concentration of other hydrocarbons in the water column

Concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the water column

Concentration of polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) in the water column

Surfactant concentrations in water bodies

Radioactivity in the water column

Instruments

fluorometers

discrete water samplers

gas chromatographs

spectrophotometers

plankton nets

bench fluorometers

Description

Summary

The specific pollutants parameters were considered in the framework of the multidisciplinary monitoring program of the Adriatic Sea scheduled to determine the current state of the ecosystem and pollution in relation to its basic hydrographic features and dynamics. Specific parameters considered as pollution indicators were measured in each of the important matrices: sea water, suspended matter and net plankton. The original data were controlled, analysed and worked up by the originator who holds the principal responsibility for quality control. Nevertheless before the dataset has been considered as part of the database it has been submitted to a group of experts charged with final data validation and reporting. The hydrographic stations were occupied during 6 seasonal cruises. Additional intercalibration cruise was carried out concurrently with different ships. 2 hydrographic surveys are concerned with the summer of 1983 and 1984; 2 with the autumn of 1979 and 1989; 1 with the spring of 1983; the latest cruise (spring 1990) was concerned with the special Dynamic Experiment in the Northern Adriatic Sea (NADEX) where 11 stations for PAH, 4 stations for heavy metals and 2 stations for chlorinated hydrocarbons were repeated for 3 days concurrently with CTD stations. The data are stored per station, per cruise, per specific filtered sample together with the detection limit of used methodology. Special forms and coded tables were prepared to arrange parameter name, numerical values, dimensional unit, accuracy and standards. The data set comprises over 500 stations where the samples have been collected and more than 2000 observations were performed. The data were supplied by 5 Italian institutions: Centro Ricerca Interdip. Scienze del Mare, Universita' di Bologna; CNR, Istituto di Biologia del Mare, Venezia; CNR, Istituto Sperimentale Talassografico, Trieste; Dipartimento Biologia e Fisiologia Generale, Universita' di Parma; Dipartimento Scienze Ambientali, Universita' di Venezia.

Originator

OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography

References

" Common Report of Activities carried out from July 1979 to October 1980 in the framework of the Italian-Yugoslav Program for the Protection of the Adriatic Sea. Printed by OGS, Trieste, March 1982. " 1982-06-01, unknown, unknown

"Common Report of Activities carried out from 1980 to 1984 in the framework of the Italian-Yugoslav Program for the Protection of the Adriatic Sea. Printed by OGS, Trieste, December 1985. " 1985-06-01, unknown, unknown

" Italian Data Reports, Cruises ASCOP 2,3 and 4 (6 volumes). Printed by OGS, Trieste, December 1985. " 1985-06-01, unknown, unknown

"Italian Data Reports, Cruise ASCOP 14 (2 volumes). Printed by OGS, Trieste, June 1991. " 1991-06-01, unknown, unknown

"Methodology Manual for Coordinated Yugoslav-Italian Monitoring of the North Adriatic Sea. Compiled by Zavodnik D., Rovinj, March 1982" 1982-06-01, unknown, unknown

"Proceedings of the ASCOP Symposium 'Oceanographic Condition and Pollution Level of the Northern and Middle Adriatic Sea', Trieste, June 9-10, 1986. Bollettino di Oceanologia teorica ed applicata, Numero speciale, 1989." 1989-06-01, unknown, unknown

Availability

Availability

by negotiation

Organization

OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography

Contact

Mosetti R.

Address

OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography

Sgonico (Trieste)

34010

Italy

rmosetti@ogs.trieste.it

http://www.ogs.trieste.it/

Administration

Local identifier

1085

Creation Date

2014-10-02

Revision Date

2013-07-25