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Title: Benthic organisms collected using sediment sampler from the SW RESEARCHER and other platforms in the Gulf of Mexico from 1978-02-03 to 1978-10-19 (NCEI Accession 8100491)
Abstract: Benthic organisms were collected using sediment sampler casts from the SW RESEARCHER in the Gulf of Mexico from 03 February 1978 to 19 October 1978. Data were submitted by the Science Application, INC. 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: 19810410
Start date: 19780203
End date: 19781019
Seanames: Gulf of Mexico
West boundary: -95.27
East boundary: -93.19
North boundary: 29.73
South boundary: 28.71
Observation types: biological, chemical, laboratory analyses, physical, phytoplankton abundance, profile, survey - biological, water chemistry
Instrument types: bottle, laboratory analysis, meteorological sensor, net, net - zooplankton net, oxygen sensor, pH sensor, refractometer, salinometer, sediment sampler - corer, sediment sampler - grab, thermistor, thermometer, visual analysis, visual estimate
Datatypes: adenosine triphosphate, AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB, AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB, AMMONIA (NH3), BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, BOTTOM TYPE, CARBON - TOTAL UPTAKE, CHLOROPHYLL, CHLOROPHYLL - RELATIVE FLUORESCENCE, cloud amount/frequency, cloud type, DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, ELECTRON TRANSPORT SYSTEM, HYDROCARBONS - TOTAL RECOVERABLE, HYDROCARBONS - TOTAL RESOLVED, NANOPLANKTON - CARBON UPTAKE, NANOPLANKTON - CHLOROPHYLL, NITRATE, NITRATE/NITRITE RATIO, NITRITE, OXYGEN, OXYGEN - APPARENT UTILIZATION (AOU), OXYGEN - PERCENT SATURATION, PARTICULATE MATTER - DRY WEIGHT, PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON, PARTICULATE ORGANIC NITROGEN (PON), pH, PHAEOPHYTIN, phosphate, PHOSPHORUS - ORGANIC IN PHOSPHATE, PHOSPHORUS - TOTAL IN PHOSPHATE, SALINITY, SALINITY - BOTTOM WATER, SALINITY - SURFACE WATER, SEA DIRECTION, SEA HEIGHT, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, Secchi depth, SEDIMENTS - ORGANIC CARBON, SEDIMENTS - PARTICLE SIZE FRACTIONS, SEDIMENTS - TOTAL CARBON, SIGMA-T, silicate, SILICON DIOXIDE, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - ASH-FREE WEIGHT, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - COUNT, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - DRY WEIGHT, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - LIFE HISTORY, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - LIFE STAGE, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - SEX, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - WET WEIGHT, Sulfate (SO4 2-), suspended solids, SWELL DIRECTION, SWELL HEIGHT, TAXONOMIC CODE, turbidity, VISIBILITY, water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE, WEATHER, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
Submitter: Hann Jr., Roy W.
Submitting institution: Texas A&M University; College Station
Collecting institutions: Science Applications International Corporation - Oak Ridge, TN, Texas A&M University; College Station
Contributing projects: BRINE DISPOSAL
Platforms: EXCELLENCE (32L7), PEARL (32YR), SW RESEARCHER (32YG)
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.

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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: SCIENCE APPLICATIONS, INC. - OAK RIDGE TN
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: OAKRIDGE
state: TN
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19810410
Metadata version: 11
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:31:26+00
Editdate: 2024-10-17 17:07:47+00