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OAS accession Detail for 8900193
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| Title: | Marine toxic substances, pollutants, and other data for the Caribbean Pollution Regional Program (CARIPOL) from various platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea from 1979-02-05 to 1989-02-23 (NCEI Accession 8900193) |
| Abstract: | The data in this submission consists of three files. It represents all of the Caribbean Pollution Regional Program (CARIPOL) Phase I data spanning a period of 10 years on file at Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) as of July 1989. The data were submitted by Dr. Donald K. Atwood. These data were collected by many institutes in the United States, Caribbean, Central and South America. The data were collected in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. One file contains the data regarding amount of tar on the beaches. The data were collected from February 1979 to February 1989. Second file contains the dissolved and dispersed petroleum hydrocarbon data collected from November 1979 to February 1989. The third file contains the floating tar data collected from December 1979 to November 1987. Data has been processed to the NODC standard Marine Toxic Substances and Pollutants (F144) format. The F144 format contains data on ambient concentrations of toxic substances and other pollutants in the marine environment. The data derive from laboratory analyses of samples of water, sediment, or marine organisms. Samples may have been collected near marine discharge sites or during ocean monitoring surveys of large areas. Field observations of tar deposits on beaches may also be reported. Survey information includes platform type, start and end dates, and investigator and institution. If data are collected near a discharge site, discharge location, depth, distance to shore, average volume, and other characteristics are reported. Position, date, time and environmental conditions are reported for each sample station. Environmental data may include meteorological and sea surface conditions, tide stage and height, depth of the thermocline or mixed layer surface temperature and salinity, and wave height and periods. Sample characteristics, collection methods, and laboratory techniques are reported for each sample collected and analyzed. The data record comprises concentration values (or a code to indicate trace amounts) for each chemical substance analyzed. Chemical substances are identified by codes based on the registry numbers assigned by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) of the American Chemical Society. Marine organisms from which samples have been taken are identified using the 12-digit NODC Taxonomic Code. A text record is available for optional comments. |
| Date received: | 19890718 |
| Start date: | 19790205 |
| End date: | 19890223 |
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| West boundary: | -126.68 |
| East boundary: | -23.47 |
| North boundary: | 74.15 |
| South boundary: | -77.42 |
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| Submitter: | Atwood, Dr. Donald K. |
| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
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| 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: US DOC; NOAA; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY; ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC METEROLOGICAL LABORATORY - MIAMI FL PI: Atwood, Dr. Donald Address: address: 4301 RICKENBACKER CAUSEWAY city: MIAMI state: FL postal: 33149-1026 country: UNITED STATES |
| Availability date: | 19890718 |
| Metadata version: | 9 |
| Keydate: | 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00 |
| Editdate: | 2024-10-22 22:51:33+00 |