Marine toxic substances and pollutants data collected using sediment corer and other instruments from the NOAA Ship RESEARCHER and other platforms in Gulf of Mexico and other Sea areas from 05 February 1979 to 30 October 1987 (NODC Accession 8700038)

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2015
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 8700038; AIR TEMPERATURE; BEACH TAR; BEACH TAR - AREA SAMPLED; BEACH TAR - BEACH STATUS; BEACH TAR - INTERTIDAL DISTANCE; BEACH TAR - LENGTH OF SHOREFRONT; BEACH TAR - SEASHORE SURFACE; BEACH TAR - WATERLINE TO SAMPLE DISTANCE; BOTTOM TYPE; CAS (CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE) PARAMETER CODES; CURRENT DIRECTION; CURRENT SPEED; EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE DESCRIPTION; EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE DISTANCE TO SHORE; EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE IDENTIFIER; EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE POINT; EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE PRIMARY INDUSTRY; EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE QUANTITY; EFFLUENT - ZONE OF INITIAL DILUTION; SALINITY; SEA STATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - COUNT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - LIFE STAGE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - SEX; TAXONOMIC CODE; THERMOCLINE DEPTH; TIDE HEIGHT; TIDE STAGE; water depth; WATER TRANSPARENCY; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE PERIOD; WIND DIRECTION; WIND DIRECTION - PREVAILING; WIND SPEED; current meter; hydrometer; laboratory analysis; meteorological sensors; salinometer; sediment sampler - corer; sediment sampler - grab; tide gauge; visual analysis; profile; AKADEMIK KURCHATOV; ALMIRANTE IRIZAR; BEACH AND INTERTIDAL SITES; BELLOWS; BUCCO REEF2; CHAGUARAMAS; CRAWFORD; ENDEAVOR; GALATEA; GALEOTA; JUSTO SIERRA; KANAWA R/V; LANCHA; MAKO 20; MARSEP I; MEDUSA; MORUGA; MUREX; NEREIDA; PEZMAR; PLYMOUTH; PUMA; RESACA; RESEARCHER; SIKORSKY; TATAGUA; TRITON; UNKNOWN; WASP; XIPHIAS; Academy of Sciences of Cuba; Argentina Antarctic Institute; Bureau of Mines and Hydrocarbons; Centro de Investigaciones Oceanograficas e Hidrograficas del Caribe; Dade County School System; Department of Science and Technology; Institute of Marine Affairs; Mcgill University; Bellairs Research Institute; Mosquito Control Research Unit; National Taiwan University; National Park Foundation; Natural Resources Conservation Division; Public Health Service; Simon Bolivar University; Universidad Nacional de Mexico; Instituto de Geofisica; University of Costa Rica; University of Oriente; Oceanographic Institute; University of Puerto Rico;Department of Marine Sciences - Mayaguez; University of South Florida - St. Petersburg; University of the West Indes; University of Thessaloniki; US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory; CARIPOL/MARPOLMON; Caribbean Sea; Gulf of Mexico; Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin; NE Pacific (limit-180); NW Atlantic (limit-40 W); SW Atlantic (limit-20 W); oceanography; Antarctic; Pacific; Argentina; Medusa; Crawford; Triton; Bellows; Sikorsky; Irizar; Antarc*
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Marine toxic substances and pollutants data were collected using sediment corer and other instruments in the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and other Sea areas from NOAA Ship RESEARCHER and other platforms from 05 February 1979 to 30 October 1987. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Marine Toxic Substances and Pollutants Data (F144) format. Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/f144.html. 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.