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OAS accession Detail for 8000502
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| Title: | Benthic organisms collected using sediment sampler from the EXCELLENCE in the Gulf of Mexico from 1979-04-26 to 1979-11-19 (NCEI Accession 8000502) |
| Abstract: | Benthic organisms were collected using sediment sampler casts from the EXCELLENCE in the Gulf of Mexico from 26 April 1979 to 19 November 1979. Data were submitted by the Texas A&M University with support from the Brine Disposal project. The F132 format contains data from field sampling or surveys of bottom dwelling marine organisms. The data provide information on species abundance, distribution, and biomass; they may have been collected by point sampling (grab or core), by tow (dredge, trawl or net), by photographic surveys, or by other methods. Cruise information such as vessel, start and end dates, investigator, and institution/agency; station numbers, positions and times; and equipment and methods are reported for each survey. Environmental data reported at each sampling site may include meteorological and sea surface conditions; surface and bottom temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen; and sediment characteristics. Number of individual organisms and total weight of organisms is reported for each species. A text record is available for comments. |
| Date received: | 19801106 |
| Start date: | 19790426 |
| End date: | 19791119 |
| Seanames: | Gulf of Mexico |
| West boundary: | -95.5 |
| East boundary: | -95.27 |
| North boundary: | 28.84 |
| South boundary: | 28.79 |
| Observation types: | benthic, biological, survey - biological |
| Instrument types: | laboratory analysis, meteorological sensor, net, salinometer, sediment sampler - corer, sediment sampler - grab |
| Datatypes: | BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, BOTTOM TYPE, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, OXYGEN, SALINITY - BOTTOM WATER, SALINITY - SURFACE WATER, SEA DIRECTION, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, SEDIMENTS - ORGANIC CARBON, SEDIMENTS - PARTICLE SIZE FRACTIONS, SEDIMENTS - TOTAL CARBON, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - ASH-FREE WEIGHT, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - COUNT, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - WET WEIGHT, TAXONOMIC CODE, WATER TEMPERATURE |
| Submitter: | Hann Jr., Roy W. |
| Submitting institution: | Texas A&M University; College Station |
| Collecting institutions: | Texas A&M University; College Station |
| Contributing projects: | BRINE DISPOSAL |
| Platforms: | EXCELLENCE (32L7) |
| 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 |
| Availability date: | 19801106 |
| Metadata version: | 11 |
| Keydate: | 2003-10-24 17:30:21+00 |
| Editdate: | 2024-10-17 17:06:15+00 |