Physical, chemical, phytoplankton, marine toxin, and other data from bottle casts and bottom grabs from the ALBATROSS IV and other platforms as part of the North East Monitoring Program and other projects from 12 February 1977 to 10 August 1981 (NODC Accession 8500078)

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2016
• 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; 8500078; AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB; AMMONIA (NH3); BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; BOTTOM TYPE; CAS (CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE) PARAMETER CODES; cloud amount/frequency; cloud types; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; 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; NITRATE; OXYGEN; phosphate; PHYTOPLANKTON; PHYTOPLANKTON - DRY WEIGHT; PHYTOPLANKTON - WET WEIGHT; PRODUCTIVITY; SALINITY; SEA DIRECTION; SEA HEIGHT; SEA STATE; silicate; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - COUNT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - LIFE STAGE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - SEX; SWELL DIRECTION; SWELL HEIGHT; TAXONOMIC CODE; WATER COLOR; water depth; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATER TRANSPARENCY; WEATHER; WIND DIRECTION; WIND SPEED; bottle; laboratory analysis; meteorological sensors; net - plankton net; salinometer; sediment sampler - corer; sediment sampler - grab; trawl; visual analysis; biological; physical; phytoplankton abundance; plankton; profile; ALBATROSS IV; FIXED PLATFORM; G. B. KELEZ; GYRE; UNKNOWN; USCGC ALERT; Battelle Memorial Institute; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Energy Resources Co. Inc.; US DOI; Fish and Wildlife Service - Eastern Pennsylvania Region; US EPA; Meteorology and Assessment Division - Triangle Park, NC; Marine EcoSystems Analysis Project - PUGET SOUND (MESA -PS); North East Monitoring Program (NEMP); OCEAN DUMPING; Coastal Waters of SE Alaska; North Atlantic Ocean; Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary; oceanography; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; Pacific; North Atlantic; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/{C29870A6-F844-45FD-B8E6-E8427A6CABAD}

Physical, chemical, phytoplankton, marine toxin, and other data from bottle casts and bottom grabs from the ALBATROSS IV and other platforms from 12 February 1977 to 10 August 1981. Data were collected by the Fish and Wildlife Service - Eastern Pennsylvania Region (FWS) and other institutions as part of the North East Monitoring Program and other projects. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F004 Water Physics and Chemistry format, the F028 Phytoplankton, and the F144 Marine Toxic Substances and Pollutants format. Full format and format code descriptions are available at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-datafmts.html. The F004 format is used for data from measurements and analyses of physical and chemical characteristics of the water column. Among chemical parameters that may be recorded are salinity, PH, and concentration of oxygen, ammonia, nitrate, phosphate, chlorophyll, and suspended solids. Physical parameters that may be recorded include temperature, density (sigma-t), transmissivity, and current velocity (east-west and north-south components). Cruise and station information, including environmental conditions of the study site at the time of observations, is also included. This F028 format is used for data from the sampling and analysis of marine phytoplankton. Information on phytoplankton abundance, distribution, and productivity derived from these data support studies of marine populations and ecosystems. Data reported may include: position, date, and time of sampling; bottom depth and sampling depths; volume of water filtered; and concentration of cells, carbon concentration, wet and dry weight, and counts for each species reported. Comments may be relayed in a text record. 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.