Most databases at IMARES are mainly intended for internal use. In some cases we build and maintain databases for external use or as part of a project.
MEDUSA’s head or Management of Ecotoxicological Data Using Systematic Attributes was an internal database used to store:
- Ecological information
- Biological data
- Ecotoxicological data
It still holds valuable data and is still consulted with some regularity |
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CHIMERA was a project for which a database as well as a model was constructed. CHemical Integrated Marine Environmental Risk Assessor as built for an offshore energy company to asses the use of chemicals.
CHIMERA is designed for the ‘non-specialist’ such as a production manager on an offshore platform, for whom it has proven to be a useful instrument to help decide on chemical use.
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An example of a database that was built, used and maintained for several years is the Chemical Registration System or CRS-database. The project was aimed at evaluating Harmonized Offshore Chemical Notification Format or HOCNF-forms for the Dutch part of the North Sea. As required by OSPAR the health, safetye and environmental (HSE) information of offshore chemicals must be supplied in full and correctly to the competent authority. For the Netherlands this would be State Supervision of the Mines or SodM.
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For an inshore project IMARES has analysed vertical measurements on water depth as well as several water quality parameters that were made available by our contractor RWS-Noord Holland in the form of a database. The data was analysed intensively and the results were reported.
The figure shows how surface inflow (green colours) occurs during winter, while at depth (bottom two parts) increasingly saltier water is present.
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Data that is gathered or maintained for making maps or performing analyses with geographical information systems ( or GIS are also stored in database formats.
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Other databases maintained at IMARES include database on observations of benthic organisms, fish, birds and mammals. These are however not part of the department Environment.
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