SRE4 Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons in sediment trays

• Other Authors: STARK, JONATHAN SEAN (hasPrincipalInvestigator), STARK, JONATHAN SEAN (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: biota; environment; oceans; CONTAMINANT LEVELS/SPILLS; EARTH SCIENCE; HUMAN DIMENSIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; OIL SPILLS; SEDIMENT COMPOSITION; MARINE SEDIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS; OCEAN CHEMISTRY; ORGANIC CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC; COASTAL; MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; SAB; field experiment; biodegradable oil; diesel fuel; lubricating oil; SEDIMENT TRAPS; FIELD SURVEYS; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; VERTICAL LOCATION > SEA FLOOR; Antarctic; Casey Station; Fuchs; O'Brien Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/sre4-total-petroleum-sediment-trays/701837; https://doi.org/10.26179/5d4d11cfce81d; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SRE4_TPH; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

Sediment Recruitment Experiment 4 (SRE4) was a large, long term (5 year) field experiment run at Casey Station (from 2001 to 2006) testing the effects of 4 different hydrocarbons on marine sediment ecosystems. Four different types of hydrocarbons were individually mixed with defaunated marine sediments and deployed in trays on the seabed at O'Brien Bay-1. Trays were collected after deployment periods of 5 weeks, 56 weeks, 62 weeks, 2 years and 5 years. In addition there was a bioturbation treatment using the burrowing urchin Abatus (at 56 weeks only). Samples were collected from 4 replicate trays of each treatment at each sampling time. Analyses were done of sediment hydrocarbon chemistry, microbial communities, meiofaunal communities, macrofaunal communities and diatom communities. The hydrocarbon treatments were: a synthetic Mobil lubricating oil; the same Mobil lubricating oil after 125? hours use in a vehicle engine; a Fuchs synthetic lubricating oil marketed as highly biodegradable; and Special Antarctic Blend diesel fuel (SAB). A control uncontaminated sediment treatment was used for comparison.