Glacier Runoff Biophysical Data in Gulf of Alaska Fjords, 2004-2011

• Main Authors: Mayumi Arimitsu (ORCID: 0000-0001-6982-2238), U.S. Geological Survey research ecologist, John Piatt, U.S. Geological Survey research wildlife biologist, Brielle Heflin, U.S. Geological Survey biological science technician
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2017
• Subjects: biota; oceans; freshwater; marine ecosystems; sediment; glacier; turbidity; Alaska Coastal Current; tidewater glacier; inorganic nutrients; copepod; euphausiid; forage fish; seabird; zooplankton; krill; Glacier Bay; Gulf of Alaska; Alaska; Prince William Sound; Icy Bay; Yakutat; Gonionemus; Aglantha; Pegantha; Perigonimus; Bougainvillia; Proboscidactyla; Corymorpha; Melicertum; Eirene; Dimophyes; Parasagitta; Scolecithricella; Metridia; Microcalanus; Pseudocalanus; Calanus; Neocalanus; Eucalanus; Paracalanus; Paraeuchaeta; Centropages; Epilabidocera; Acartia; Tortanus; Lubbockia; Oncaea; Microsetella; Oithona; Monstrilla; Evadne; Podon; Conchoecia; Neomysis; Cyphocaris; Hyperia; Parathemisto; Themisto; Primno; Euphausia; Thysanoessa; Pasiphaea; Pandalus; Typhloscolex; Tomopteris; Limacina; Oikopleura; Fritillaria; Aglantha digitale; Proboscidactyla flavicirrata; Eirene indicans; Dimophyes arctica; Parasagitta elegans; Scolecithricella minor; Metridia okhotensis; Metridia pacifica; Calanus marshallae; Calanus pacificus; Neocalanus flemingeri; Neocalanus plumchrus; Eucalanus bungii; Paracalanus parvus; Paraeuchaeta elongata; Centropages abdominalis; Epilabidocera amphitrites; Acartia longiremis; Tortanus discaudatus; Lubbockia wilsonae; Oithona similis; Oithona spinirostris; Neomysis rayii; Cyphocaris challengeri; Themisto pacifica; Primno macropa; Euphausia pacifica; Thysanoessa raschii; Thysanoessa inermis; Thysanoessa inspinata; Thysanoessa spinifera; Pasiphaea pacifica; Typhloscolex muelleri; Limacina helicina; Tidewater; Zooplankton
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/f21a8bb6-67cc-4edd-a1eb-c222da812046

In order to understand marine ecosystem responses to a range of habitat variability in coastal zones modified by glacial freshwater outflows, biophysical data were collected in three study regions that included four major glacial fjord systems around the Gulf of Alaska. Each of 172 discrete stations within the three study regions was sampled once during the peak ice-melt season in summer. A suite of geographic, oceanographic, nutrient and biological attributes was sampled at each station (see Arimitsu et al. 2008, Renner et al. 2012, Arimitsu et al. 2016 for details). This dataset includes station information, including date, time, location, distance variables that were derived in a geographic information software, and zooplankton abundance indices.