Dataset: dinoflagellates

Name: Abundance, biovolume and biomass of heterotrophic dinoflagellates from cruises TT007, TT008, TT011, TT012 in the Equatorial Pacific in 1992 during the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) project
Published: 1997-05-01
Keywords: oceans

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Cite This Dataset

Project:

U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac)

Program:

U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (U.S. JGOFS)

Principal Investigator:

Peter Verity (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, SkIO)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Cynthia L. Chandler (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

final

Version Date:

1997-05-01

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Abundance, biovolume and biomass of heterotrophic dinoflagellates from cruises TT007, TT008, TT011, TT012 in the Equatorial Pacific in 1992 during the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) project

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Description

Abundance, biovolume and biomass of heterotrophic dinoflagellates

Methods & Sampling

See Platform deployments for cruise specific documentation

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

None available yet

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
TT007	EqPac Spring Survey	1992-01-30	R/V Thomas G. Thompson	James W. Murray (Chief Scientist)	data info
TT008	EqPac Spring Time Series	1992-03-19	R/V Thomas G. Thompson	Michael R. Roman (Chief Scientist)	data info
TT011	EqPac Fall Survey	1992-08-05	R/V Thomas G. Thompson	Richard Barber (Chief Scientist)	data info
TT012	EqPac Fall Time Series	1992-09-24	R/V Thomas G. Thompson	Dr Michael Bacon (Chief Scientist)	data info

Instruments

Fluorescence Microscope Image Analysis System

Supplied Description:

fluorescence microscope image analysis system used to measure Abundance and biovolume

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Fluorescence Microscope Image Analysis System

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/LAB06/

Generic Description:

A Fluorescence (or Epifluorescence) Microscope Image Analysis System uses semi-automated color image analysis to determine cell abundance, dimensions and biovolumes from an Epifluorescence Microscope. An Epifluorescence Microscope (conventional and inverted) includes a camera system that generates enlarged images of prepared samples. The microscope uses excitation ultraviolet light and the phenomena of fluorescence and phosphorescence instead of, or in addition to, reflection and absorption of visible light.

Niskin bottle

Supplied Name: Niskin Bottle

Supplied Description:

CTD clean rosette (Niskin) bottles were used to collect water samples.

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Niskin bottle

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L22/current/TOOL0412/

Generic Description:

A Niskin bottle (a next generation water sampler based on the Nansen bottle) is a cylindrical, non-metallic water collection device with stoppers at both ends. The bottles can be attached individually on a hydrowire or deployed in 12, 24, or 36 bottle Rosette systems mounted on a frame and combined with a CTD. Niskin bottles are used to collect discrete water samples for a range of measurements including pigments, nutrients, plankton, etc.

Parameters

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

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
h_dino_v	hetertrophic dinoflagellate biovolume	um^3/cell	no_bcodmo_term
h_dino_m	hetertrophic dinoflagellate biomass	ugC/l	no_bcodmo_term
depth_n	nominal depth	meters	no_bcodmo_term
lat_n	nominal latitude, (minus = south)	degrees	no_bcodmo_term
h_dino_a	hetertrophic dinoflagellate abundance	cells/ml	no_bcodmo_term
sta	station number from event log		no_bcodmo_term
cast	CTD cast number from event log		cast
event	event/operation number		event
date	date reported as YYYYMMDD, year, month, day		no_bcodmo_term
bot	CTD rosette bottle number		no_bcodmo_term

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Dataset: dinoflagellates