Dataset: bongo and RMT tows
Deployment: AMT24

List of all bongo and RMT tows conducted during AMT24.

Principal Investigator:

Erica Goetze (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, SOEST)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

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

Project:

Basin-scale genetics of marine zooplankton (Plankton Population Genetics)

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Version:

24 Nov 2014

Deployment Synonyms:

Atlantic Meridional Transect Cruise 24, JR303, JR20140922

Version Date:

2014-11-24

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/540625/data

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Description

List of dates, times, and positions of all bongo and RMT tows conducted during the AMT24 cruise.

Methods & Sampling

Dataset acquisition description

BCO-DMO extracted Table 1 from the Zooplankton Ecology portion of the AMT24 cruise report (PDF) prepared by E. Goetze et al.

Data Processing Description

Dataset Processing Description

BCO-DMO edits made:
- Extracted table from the Cruise Report in Word; converted to .csv.
- Converted original latitude and longitude values from degrees and decimal minutes to decimal degrees.
- Replaced "n.r." with "nd" to indicate "no data".
- Separated original date field into month, day, and year columns.

More information about this dataset deployment

Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
OCE-1338959	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
tow	Consecutive tow number.	unitless	tow
station	Unique station identification.	unitless	station
tow_type	Type of tow. CALBOBL = bongo oblique tows (quantitative tows); RMT = midwater trawl; live bongo = non-quantative tows used to collect animals for experiments and live sorting for other purposes (individual preservation).	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
date	Month, day, and year of the tow (local time zone).	unitless	date
month	2-digit month.	unitless	month
day	2-digit day of month.	unitless	day
year	4-digit year.	unitless	year
time_start	Time (local time zone) when the tow began; formatted as HHMM (hours and minutes).	unitless	time_start
time_end	Time (local time zone) when the tow ended; formatted as HHMM (hours and minutes).	unitless	time_end
lat	Latitude recorded at the start of the tow.	decimal degrees	lat
lon	Longitude recorded at the start of the tow.	decimal degrees	lon

Database

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Dataset: bongo and RMT tows
Deployment: AMT24

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Database

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Dataset: bongo and RMT towsDeployment: AMT24

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Dataset: bongo and RMT tows
Deployment: AMT24