ZooSCAN biovolume to biomass from imaged zooplankton collected during MOCNESS tows during various R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises and small boat deployments in the Sargasso Sea between 2016 to 2019 (NCEI Accession 0278680)

This dataset contains biological data collected on R/V Atlantic Explorer during cruises AE1614, AE1712, AE1830, AE1917, and AE1918 from 2016-07-11 to 2019-11-28. These data include taxon. The instruments used to collect these data include MOCNESS, Scale, and ZooSCAN. These data were collected by Amy Maas and Leocadio Blanco-Bercial of Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences as part of the "Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (BIOSSCOPE)", "Collaborative Research: Diel physiological rhythms in a tropical oceanic copepod (Zooplankton Diel Rhythm)", and "Quantifying the drivers of midwater zooplankton community structure (Zooplankton Gradients)" projects. The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) submitted these data to NCEI on 2021-11-05.

The following is the text of the dataset description provided by BCO-DMO:

Acquisition Description:
Methodology: Individual zooplankton of a variety of taxa were individually selected from multiple MOCNESS and Reeve net tows. Organisms were picked from both surface and deep nets and across a range of sizes to represent the full range of potential morphologies. They were imaged on a ZooSCAN ver. 3 at 4,800 dpi (following the methods in: Gorsky et al., 2010, Vandromme et al., 2012) . Raw images were then processed in ZooProcess (Gorsky et al., 2010, Vandromme et al., 2012) , resulting in a measurement and metadata file. After imaging each individual organism was weighed wet on a Mettler-Toledo XPR microbalance, dried for 3 days in a drying oven at 60 C, and reweighed.

Sampling and analytical procedures: Most samples (all from the MOCNESS) had been preserved in formalin for between 1 and 4 years. Individuals from the Reeve net had been preserved in ethanol or stored at -80C for 1-2 years. All individuals were imaged in DI water at room temperature.

Object_id and imagenames:

Related Datasets may contain the image name which is constructed the same way as the object_id in this dataset except it does not have the additional _# at the end, and the imagename ends in the .tif extension. This additional number in the object_id is added by the Zooprocess software (Hydroptic, 2016).
e.g.
object_id: ae1614_m3_n1_d2_a_1 _100
image_name: ae1614_m3_n1_d2_a_1.tif