Blossom Shoals water-column, seabed sediment, and bathymetry data. Icy Cape, Chukchi Sea, Alaska. 2019-2020. ...

This dataset includes vessel-based water-column profile and seabed data collected around Blossom Shoals, a shoal complex offshore of Icy Cape in northwestern Alaska (in the Chukchi Sea). Data were collected from the Research Vessel (R/V) Sikuliaq (offshore) and a companion workboat (inshore). Water-...

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Main Authors: Eidam, Emily, Thomson, Jim, Malito, John, Hosekova, Lucia
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: NSF Arctic Data Center 2023
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2862bd1g
https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2862BD1G
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Summary:This dataset includes vessel-based water-column profile and seabed data collected around Blossom Shoals, a shoal complex offshore of Icy Cape in northwestern Alaska (in the Chukchi Sea). Data were collected from the Research Vessel (R/V) Sikuliaq (offshore) and a companion workboat (inshore). Water-column profile data include salinity, temperature, depth, and turbidity data collected using a RBR Maestro CTD/Tu (conductivity, temperature, depth, turbidity) sensor package. Profile data also include median diameters and volumetric concentrations of suspended particles, where were collected using a Sequoia LISST200X (laser in situ scattering transmissometer). Seabed grab samples were collected from the Sikuliaq using a shipek grab sampler and from the workboat using a hand-operated mini van veen grab sampler. Samplers were bagged and returned chilled to the lab for particle-size analyses in an Escitec Bettersizer S3Plus laser diffraction sensor. Sediments were not treated for organics due to generally low ...