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)

• 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; DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC > Climate Prediction Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 8800234; 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; bathythermograph - BT; bathythermograph - XBT; biota surveys; bottle; laboratory analysis; salinometer; sediment sampler - grab; thermometer; visual analysis; biological; physical; profile; survey - biological; MULTIPLE SHIPS; PURITAN; Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences; US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Centers for Environmental Prediction; Climate Prediction Center; MICROBIAL EXCHANGES AND COUPLING IN COASTAL ATLANTIC SYSTEMS (MECCAS); UNKNOWN; Chesapeake Bay; Gulf of Mexico; oceanography; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE; BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS; SALINOMETERS; THERMOMETERS; XBT > Expendable Bathythermographs; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/{4A160934-435A-418E-BC05-FC39308967A2}

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).