Continuous plankton recorder zooplankton and phytoplankton data, 2002-2009

The data include abundances of phytoplankton and zooplankton taxa retained by the Continuous Plankton Recorder which collected plankton samples as it was towed behind a merchant ship on a great circle transect from Vancouver, Canada to Japan. Several transects were occupied during 2002-2009. 2009 da...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sonia Batten, David Welch
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Gulf of Alaska Data Portal
Subjects:
CPR
Online Access:https://search.dataone.org/view/df35a.36.8
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Summary:The data include abundances of phytoplankton and zooplankton taxa retained by the Continuous Plankton Recorder which collected plankton samples as it was towed behind a merchant ship on a great circle transect from Vancouver, Canada to Japan. Several transects were occupied during 2002-2009. 2009 data are also from a transect from Juan de Fuca Strait to Cook Inlet. The samples each represent 18.5km of tow and have been processed according to routine CPR protocols as directed by the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS) which operates and maintains the CPR survey. The midpoint of each sample is allocated a position and time based on information on deployment and recovery times from the ship's log.