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Title: Oceanic Environmental data from the ALAMINOS and other platforms from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE) from 1971-02-01 to 1971-12-01 (NCEI Accession 7200737)
Abstract: Oceanic Environmental data were collected from the ALAMINOS and other platforms from 01 February 1971 to 01 December 1971. Data were collected in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean by Texas A&M University (TAMU) and other institutions as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE). Data is predominately based on analysis of zooplankton samples. Data include concentrations of metals in fish, sea water, plankton, and sediments.

Data was submitted to the National Science Foundation as a report titled 'A Sudy Program to Identify Problems Related to Oceanic Environmental Quality -- Gulf of Mexico' on 10 January 1972. Analog copies of report are available by contacting NODC user services.
Date received: 19720605
Start date: 19710201
End date: 19711201
Seanames: Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico
West boundary: -98
East boundary: -75
North boundary: 30
South boundary: 20
Observation types: biological, chemical, physical, profile, tows, tows - plankton tows
Instrument types: bottle, CTD, fluorometer, laboratory analysis, net, net - plankton net, net - zooplankton net, sediment sampler - grab, tide gauge, visual analysis
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB, AMMONIA (NH3), AMMONIUM (NH4), BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, BENTHIC SPECIES, BENTHIC SPECIES - TAXA COUNTS, BENTHIC SPECIES - TAXA IDENTITIES, BENTHIC SPECIES - TAXA WET WEIGHTS, CARBON ASSIMILATION, CARBON - TOTAL ORGANIC, CAS (CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE) PARAMETER CODES, CHLOROFLUOROCARBON-11 (CFC-11), CHLOROFLUOROCARBON-12 (CFC-12), CHLOROPHYLL A, CHLOROPHYLL C, CONDUCTIVITY, DEPTH - OBSERVATION, DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, FISH CENSUS, FISHERY SURVEY, FISH SPECIES, FLUORESCENCE, HYDROCARBONS - TOTAL RESOLVED, HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - LENGTH, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - WEIGHT, LIGHT TRANSMISSION, METALS, NITRATE, NITRITE, NITROGEN - PARTICULATE, partial pressure of carbon dioxide - water, PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON, pH, PHAEOPHYTIN, PHAEOPIGMENT CONCENTRATION, PHAEOPIGMENTS, phosphate, PHOSPHATE - TOTAL, PHYTOPLANKTON, PHYTOPLANKTON - DRY WEIGHT, PHYTOPLANKTON - WET WEIGHT, POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS, POLYNUCLEAR AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAH), PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY, SALINITY, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, Secchi depth, SEDIMENT PROPERTIES, silicate, SOLAR RADIATION - ATMOSPHERIC, SOUND VELOCITY, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - COUNT, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - DRY WEIGHT, suspended solids, TIDE HEIGHT, TIDE STAGE, total alkalinity, TOTAL CARBON, TOTAL PHOSPHORUS, turbidity, UREA, WATER DENSITY, WATER TEMPERATURE, WAVE HEIGHT, WAVE PERIOD, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED, ZOOPLANKTON ABUNDANCE, ZOOPLANKTON SPECIES IDENTITIES, ZOOPLANKTON SPECIES NUMBER PER SAMPLE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: Texas A&M University; College Station
Collecting institutions: Texas A&M University; College Station, The University of Texas at Austin; Marine Science Institute, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Department of Marine Sciences
Contributing projects: IDOE
Platforms: ALAMINOS (31OS), LONGHORN (32LH), PALUMBO (32PA)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Note: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM).

Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information accurately represents all available information from the legacy database at the time that this description was created. However, proper attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description.

To develop more accurate metadata, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis.

Points of contact for this dataset include:
Contact info:
Agency: TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
PI: N/A
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: COLLEGE STATION
state: TX
postal: 77843-3146
country: UNITED STATES
Contact info:
Agency: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS; INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES - PORT ARANSAS
PI: 397
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: PORT ARANSAS
state: TX
postal: 78712
country: UNITED STATES
Contact info:
Agency: UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO; INSTITUTE OF MARINE BIOLOGY - MAYAGUEZ
Address:
address: MAYAGUEZ CAMPUS
city: MAYAGUEZ
state: PR
postal: 00708
country: UNITED STATES

The Library will catalogue: A Study Program to Identify Problems Related to Oceanic Environmental Quality -- Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean by W.M. Sackett, C.S. Giam, G. J. Presley, Tex A& M University and P.L. Parker Univ. of Texas Marine Science Inst. at Port Aransas, TX and W. O. Forster, Puerto Rico Nuclear Center, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Jan 10, 1972 and A Base-line Study of Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico by P. L. Parker, J. K Winters and J. Morgan, Univ of Texas; Chlorinated Hydrocarbons, C. S. Giam; Dissolved Light Hydrocarbons, W. M Sackett with J. Brooks and J. Swinnerton
Availability date: 19720605
Metadata version: 11
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:17:38+00
Editdate: 2022-01-04 20:42:59+00