Cooper Archives - Communications and Management for Sustainability

OneBenthic – Turning publicly available benthic data into new information, leading to more sustainable use of the seabed

I recently listened to a great talk on OneBenthic by Keith Cooper from Cefas. It only goes to show what you can do with data if you have the expertise with both the species and habitats … lots of information flowing from this project of direct application to seabed management. Bob Earll OneBenthic brings together […]

Aggregate extraction and seabed communities & sustainable exploitation of the seabed

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Keith Cooper: ‘In this study we produce a standardised dataset for benthic macrofauna and sediments through integration of data (33,198 samples) from 777 grab surveys. The resulting dataset is used to identify spatial and temporal patterns in faunal distribution around the UK, and the role of sediment composition and other explanatory variables in determining such […]