Dataset: Sand City Offshore Zoo 2010

Name: Time series of avg daily zooplankton concentration in the waters just seaward of the surf zone at Sand City, Monterey Bay, California in 2010 (Surf zone larval transport project)
Published: 2015-07-01
Keywords: biota, oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:36.61576 E:-121.85485 S:36.61576 W:-121.85485

Project:

Does coupling between the inner shelf and surf zone regulate larval supply to intertidal populations? (Surf zone larval transport)

Lead Principal Investigator:

Alan L. Shanks (University of Oregon, OIMB)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Jamie MacMahan (Naval Postgraduate School, NPS)

Steven Morgan (University of California-Davis, UC Davis-BML)

Ad Reniers (Delft University of Technology, TU Delft)

Contact:

Alan L. Shanks (University of Oregon, OIMB)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

01 July 2015

Version Date:

2015-07-01

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Time series of avg daily zooplankton concentration in the waters just seaward of the surf zone at Sand City, Monterey Bay, California in 2010 (Surf zone larval transport project)

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Description

Time series of average daily zooplankton concentration in the waters just seaward of the surf zone at Sand City, CA (36.615760 degrees N, 121.85485 degrees W).

Methods & Sampling

From 17 June to 14 July we sampled zooplankton just seaward of the surf zone at Sand City, California. Most sampling occurred early to mid morning when winds were light. Offshore samples consisted of vertical plankton tows using a 200 um mesh 0.25 m^{^2} net that was equipped with a flow meter to determine the volume of water filtered. Three replicate samples were collected daily by hauling the net from near the bottom to the surface. The net filtered an average of 2 m^³per tow. Samples were preserved in buffered formalin. Zooplankton were identified and enumerated using dissecting microscopes.

Data Processing Description

Three samples were collected each day in the water just seaward of the surfzone. Counts from the microscopic analysis of the samples were converted to number per m3 and the average and 95% confidence interval for each daily set of samples were calculated. Note that blanks in the data set represent missing data values (BCO-DMO has changed blanks to 'nd'.)

BCO-DMO Processing:
- Re-formatted date, and added separate columns for month, day, year, and year-day.
- Added column containing site name.
- Added lat and lon (from metadata form).
- Modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions.
- Replaced blanks (missing data) with 'nd' to indicate 'no data'.

Data Files

File
SandCity_Offshore_Zoo2010.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 4.52 KB) MD5:6ab785480d6bd0e5ec004eec35bdebbe Primary data file for dataset ID 561834

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0926923

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
SC_2010		2010-06-15	Sand_City_Surf_Zone	Alan L. Shanks (Principal Investigator)	data info

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
site_name	Name of the sampling site.	text	site
lat	Latitude of the sampling site.	decimal degrees	lat
lon	Longitude of the sampling site.	decimal degrees	lon
date	Month/day/year of sample collection.	mm/dd/yyyy	date
Copepod	Copepod ave #/m^3 (mean of the 3 replicate samples).	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	Copepod
Copepod_95CI	Copepod 95% confidence interval.	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Copepod_nauplii	Copepod Nauplii ave #/m^3 (mean of the 3 replicate samples).	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Copepod_nauplii_95CI	Copepod Nauplii 95% confidence interval.	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Harpacticoid	Harpacticoid ave #/m^3 (mean of the 3 replicate samples).	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Harpacticoid_95CI	Harpacticoid 95% confidence interval.	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Larvacean	Larvacean ave #/m^3 (mean of the 3 replicate samples).	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Larvacean_95CI	Larvacean 95% confidence interval.	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Cladoceran	Cladoceran ave #/m^3 (mean of the 3 replicate samples).	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Cladoceran_95CI	Cladoceran 95% confidence interval.	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Barnacle_stg_I_III	Barnacle stage I-III ave #/m^3 (mean of the 3 replicate samples).	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Barnacle_stg_I_III_95CI	Barnacle stage I-III 95% confidence interval.	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Barnacle_stg_IV_VI	Barnacle stage IV-VI ave #/m^3 (mean of the 3 replicate samples).	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Barnacle_stg_IV_VI_95CI	Barnacle stage IV-VI 95% confidence interval.	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Cyprid	Cyprid ave #/m^3 (mean of the 3 replicate samples).	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Cyprid_95CI	Cyprid 95% confidence interval.	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Emerita_stg_I	Emerita stage I ave #/m^3 (mean of the 3 replicate samples).	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Emerita_stg_I_95CI	Emerita stage I 95% confidence interval.	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Bivalves_veligers	Bivalves Veligers ave #/m^3 (mean of the 3 replicate samples).	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Bivalves_veligers_95CI	Bivalves Veligers 95% confidence interval.	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Gastropod_veligers	Gastropod Veligers ave #/m^3 (mean of the 3 replicate samples).	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Gastropod_veligers_95CI	Gastropod Veligers 95% confidence interval.	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Spionid_poly_larvae	Spionid Poly Larvae ave #/m^3 (mean of the 3 replicate samples).	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Spionid_poly_larvae_95CI	Spionid Poly Larvae 95% confidence interval.	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Other_polychaete_larvae	Other Polychaete larvae ave #/m^3 (mean of the 3 replicate samples).	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Other_polychaete_larvae_95CI	Other Polychaete larvae 95% confidence interval.	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Urchin_larvae	Urchin larvae ave #/m^3 (mean of the 3 replicate samples).	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
Urchin_larvae_95CI	Urchin larvae 95% confidence interval.	number per cubic meter (#/m^3)	no_bcodmo_term
mon	2-digit month of year.	mm (01 to 12)	month
day	2-digit day of month.	dd (01 to 31)	day
year	4-digit year.	YYYY	year
yrday	Consecutive day of year (Jan 1st = 1)	dimensionless	yrday

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Dataset: Sand City Offshore Zoo 2010