Identification

Title

Oil Industry Benthic Ecology Data [Blanchard]

Alternative title(s)

255.020

Abstract

Primary production reaching the sea floor is consumed by benthic organisms (animals living in or closely associated with sediments) allowing these communities to flourish in the Chukchi Sea. Prior work in the Chukchi Sea has been broadly focused and smaller-scale information is needed. Thus, invertebrate organisms dwelling in sediments (macrofauna including marine worms, clams, snails, and other small animals) and larger, mobile animals on top of the sediments (megafauna including brittle stars, sea stars, sea cucumbers, crabs, and shrimps) are sampled to understand the ecology of the benthic fauna in the study areas. The study is investigating relationships between invertebrate community composition and environmental characteristics to understand what factors influence community structures. The benthic team is also evaluating invertebrate food-web structure through tissue isotope analysis. Compared to other studies in the area, the smaller scale of the Chukchi Sea Environmental Studies Program (CSESP) allows for stronger insights into the geologic and oceanographic factors structuring and influencing benthic animals in the region. 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.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data.eol.ucar.edu//dataset/255.020

protocol: https

name: Oil Industry Benthic Ecology Data [Blanchard] homepage

description: Dataset homepage

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/fgr_form/id=255.020

protocol: https

name: Oil Industry Benthic Ecology Data [Blanchard] Data Order Form

description: Dataset order request form. Data files are made available via FTP.

function: order

Unique resource identifier

code

255.020

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Resource Type

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

Ships

Keyword set

keyword value

Sediment

Chemistry

Arctic

Benthos

Biology

Ship Based

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > ORGANIC CARBON

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CARBON

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS > SEDIMENT COMPOSITION

EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS > SEDIMENTARY TEXTURES

EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > MOLLUSKS > BIVALVES

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS > SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CHLOROPHYLL

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NITROGEN

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2018-02-27

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-167.00000

East bounding longitude

-159.00000

North bounding latitude

72.00000

South bounding latitude

70.00000

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2008-08-21T00:00:00Z

End position

2011-10-05T23:59:59Z

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2013-04-01T19:41:41Z

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

none

Limitations on public access

none

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

contact position

GIS Project Manager / Analyst

organisation name

Resource Data, Inc. People - Technology - Results

full postal address

1205 East Intl. Airport Road, Ste. 100

Anchorage

99518

telephone number

907 770 4162

email address

ccowee@resdat.com

web address

http://www.resdat.com

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-02-07T22:42:05Z

Metadata language

eng; USA