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OAS accession Detail for 0116100
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| accessions_id: | 0116100 | archive |
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| Title: | Biological Data for Biological Baseline Studies of Mobile Bay: Benthic Fauna 1980-1981 (NODC Accession 0116100) |
| Abstract: | Beginning in late 1979, the Alabama Coastal Area Board (CAB) funded a series of baseline surveys on the coastal resources of Alabama, from which they could develop a monitoring program to observe any significant changes in the resources over time. Eight stations within Mobile Bay, Alabama were sampled monthly from April 1980 to April 1981. Data collected included samples for benthic fauna, pelagic fauna, sediment particle size, total organic carbon, foraminifera, zooplankton, phytoplankton, chlorophyll, turbidity, river flow, and hydrographic parameters. The subset of data presented here are for the benthic fauna, which were sampled by 0.1 m^2 Peterson grab. Fauna were enumerated and identified to the lowest taxon possible, and mainly included crustaceans, molluscs, polychaetes, and echinoderms. Data in readily accessible digital form are available from April 1980 to February 1981. |
| Date received: | 20140122 |
| Start date: | 19800403 |
| End date: | 19810226 |
| Seanames: | Coastal Waters of Alabama, Coastal Waters of Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean |
| West boundary: | -88.17333 |
| East boundary: | -87.85167 |
| North boundary: | 30.61333 |
| South boundary: | 30.23833 |
| Observation types: | benthic, biological, laboratory analyses, site samples, survey - biological |
| Instrument types: | laboratory analysis, sediment sampler - grab |
| Datatypes: | BENTHIC COMMUNITIES, BENTHIC SPECIES, CRUSTACEANS, INVERTEBRATE SPECIES, MACROFAUNA, POLYCHAETES |
| Submitter: | Tzeng, Mimi |
| Submitting institution: | Dauphin Island Sea Lab |
| Collecting institutions: | Dauphin Island Sea Lab |
| Contributing projects: | COASTAL |
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| Supplementary information: | Sampling for this study began 6 months after landfall of a Category 3 hurricane (Hurricane Frederic, September 1979), which caused a massive re-suspension of all sediments within Mobile Bay, and also resulted in extra high volume of river discharge for Spring 1980. This may have affected the baseline which this study intended to measure. PI: Dr. Thomas Hopkins This data contains benthic fauna data. In this Accession, NODC has archived multiple versions of these data. Only one of these, the most recent and the one with the largest version number, is available to the public. In this accession, NCEI has archived multiple versions of these data. The latest (and best) version of these data has the largest version number. |
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| Metadata version: | 11 |
| Keydate: | 2014-01-29 13:48:04+00 |
| Editdate: | 2019-03-17 17:24:33+00 |