Spring Chlorophyll Concentrations on the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf
102.079
The eastern Bering Sea shelf supports productive marine ecosystems with extraordinarily valuable fisheries and subsistence resources, but sub-arctic seas are predicted to be one of the regions most sensitive to future warming of the world's oceans. Some of the most direct effects of changing climate will be on the extent, duration and timing of sea-ice over the Bering Sea shelf. Sea-ice controls the timing of the spring phytoplankton bloom, the fate of primary production, water column temperature and salinity, and provides a haul out and molting platform for marine mammals. Thus, the most urgent priority of the Bering Sea Ecosystem Study-Bering Sea Integrated Ecosystem Research Program (BEST-BSIERP) is to examine the role of changing sea-ice conditions on the chemical, physical, and biological characteristics of the ecosystem. BEST-BSIERP together are the Bering Sea project. The first BEST cruise was scheduled on the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy in April-May 2007, however, physical observations, water column nutrient chemistry, and zooplankton distribution / abundance were not among the ecosystem components funded in the first call for proposals. Project ARC-0722448 funded by NSF after the first call for BEST proposals filled this gap in chlorophyll collections until the remainder of BEST projects could be assembled in 2008.
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102.079
biota
oceans
dataset
revision
2014-10-16
Ships
USCGC Healy - HLY
Oceanography
Plankton
Arctic
Water Sampling
Ship Based
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > PIGMENTS > CHLOROPHYLL
revision
2018-02-27
-179.43920
-163.92370
62.85280
54.24380
2007-04-10T00:00:00Z
2007-05-12T23:59:00Z
publication
2009-12-16T15:00:13Z
none
none
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