Oil Industry Zooplankton Ecology Data [Hopcroft]
255.038
The primary objective of the planktonic communities program is to describe spatial, seasonal and interannual characteristics of the plankton (phytoplankton and zooplankton) communities within the study areas. Phytoplankton, along with algae that grow attached to sea ice, are the conduit of the sun's energy into organic "food" at the base of the food chain in the Chukchi Sea. Phytoplankton are assessed as chlorophyll-a concentration from water samples collected with a Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) rosette. We also measure the concentration of the major nutrients required for their growth in these samples. Zooplankton are the major consumers of phytoplankton, and hence the key pathway to vertebrates such as pelagic fish, seabirds, and even bowhead whales. Zooplankton are collected using two different methods: paired ring nets of medium-size mesh hauled vertically at slow speed for smaller species, and Bongo nets towed off the side of a ship moving at 2 knots for larger, faster species. This dataset is part of the Pacific Marine Arctic Regional Synthesis (PacMARS) Project. This dataset contains the original CSV files, metadata files, shapefiles, and geodatabase files in ZIP files.
dataset
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/255.038
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https://data.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/fgr_form/id=255.038
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255.038
oceans
dataset
revision
2014-10-16
Ships
CTD ocean cast
Plankton
Arctic
Water Sampling
Biology
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > PLANKTON > ZOOPLANKTON
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > AMMONIA
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CHLOROPHYLL
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NITROGEN
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > SILICATE
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > BIOMASS
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NITRITE
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NITRATE
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NUTRIENTS
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > PHOSPHATE
revision
2018-02-27
-166.03035
-162.18753
71.99527
70.01990
2008-07-20T00:00:00Z
2011-10-14T23:59:59Z
publication
2013-05-29T18:45:26Z
none
none
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