Dataset: Sediment fauna and plastic
Deployment: Paytan_2014

Sediment fauna and plastic, 2014-2016
Principal Investigator: 
Adina Paytan (University of California-Santa Cruz, UCSC)
Co-Principal Investigator: 
Dr Brent Haddad (University of California-Santa Cruz, UCSC)
Dr Donald Potts (University of California-Santa Cruz, UCSC)
Student: 
Ms Karen Lykkebo Petersen (University of California-Santa Cruz, UCSC)
Contact: 
Ms Karen Lykkebo Petersen (University of California-Santa Cruz, UCSC)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Description

This dataset contains the total count of benthic Annelida and Crustaceans and of plastic pieces, normalized to the volume of sediment collected at the Carlsbad Desalination Plant, obtained in December 2014, Sept. 2015, May 2016 and November 2016.

Related datasets:
Benthic macrofaunal abundance
Macrofauna species distribution
Phytoplankton cell count
Sediment grain size
Water chemistry

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