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Title: Zooplankton and other data collected from PURITAN and other platforms in CHesapeake Bay and other Seas from 08 June 1985 to 31 March 1988 (NODC Accession 8800234)
Abstract: PLEASE NOTE there is discrepancy between the content of actual data in this accession and the abstract information that was present in Thaila folder for this accession. Following abstract is based on the information from Thaila folder.

MECCAS II (Microbial Exchanges and Coupling in Coastal Atlantic Systems) cruise data collected by the R/V Gyre at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Each of four MECCAS cruise data sets is divided into 3 files: File 1 contains underway surface mapping data. 12 parameters measured included location, temperature, salinity, ammonium, nitrate, nitrite, phosphate, and silicate at +/- 0.03-0.1 uM. File 2 contains vertical profiles at stations along mapping routes; the same 12 parameters as described above were measured. File 3 contains vertical profiles at drogue stations; 96 parameters were measured. Parameters include CTD data, zooplankton data (biomass, heterotrophic and autotrophic grazing rates, and production rate estimates), bacteria data (cell count, estimated volume, nutrient assimilation, and production rate estimates), and nanoplankton data (abundance of pigmented and non-pigmented eukaryotes and estimates of bacterial removal rates). Nutrient data contained in File 3 includes dissolved free amino acids (carbon content in free glutamic acid, serine, glycine, and alanine).
Date received: 19880817
Start date: 19850608
End date: 19880331
Seanames: Chesapeake Bay, Gulf of Mexico
West boundary: -88.3
East boundary: -75.5
North boundary: 39.7
South boundary: 16.2
Observation types: biological, physical, profile, survey - biological
Instrument types: bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - XBT, bottle, deprecated, laboratory analysis, salinometer, sediment sampler - grab, thermometer, visual analysis
Datatypes: SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - LIFE STAGE, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - SEX, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - WET WEIGHT, water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE, ZOOPLANKTON ABUNDANCE, ZOOPLANKTON BIOMASS, ZOOPLANKTON IDENTITIES, ZOOPLANKTON SPECIES IDENTITIES, ZOOPLANKTON SPECIES NUMBER PER SAMPLE
Submitter: Leetmaa, Dr. Ants
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Centers for Environmental Prediction; Climate Prediction Center
Collecting institutions: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Centers for Environmental Prediction; Climate Prediction Center
Contributing projects: MECCAS
Platforms: MULTIPLE SHIPS OF UNITED STATES (3190), PURITAN (06PR)
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, the NODC reviews metadata for all
accessions on an ongoing basis.


Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE - CAMP SPRINGS
PI: Leetmaa, Dr. Ants
Address:
address: 5200 AUTH ROAD
city: CAMP SPRING
state: MD
postal: 20748
country: UNITED STATES
Contact info:
Agency: BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES - BOOTH BAY HARBOR
PI: 144
Address:
address: P.O. BOX 475, MCKOWN POINT
city: BOOTH BAY HARBOR
state: ME
postal: 04575
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19880817
Metadata version: 3
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:39:40+00
Editdate: 2020-04-06 21:33:11+00