http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/2993
eng; USA
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dataset
Highest level of data collection, from a common set of sensors or instrumentation, usually within the same research project
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
Unavailable
508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
info@bco-dmo.org
http://www.bco-dmo.org
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm
For questions regarding this resource, please contact BCO-DMO via the email address provided.
pointOfContact
2009-01-14
ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Depth data along the cruise track from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown RHB0603 in the Sargasso Sea and Southeast North Atlantic Ocean from April 2006 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
2010-11-01
publication
2010-11-01
revision
BCO-DMO Linked Data URI
2010-11-01
creation
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/2993
Peter H. Wiebe
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
principalInvestigator
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
Unavailable
508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
info@bco-dmo.org
http://www.bco-dmo.org
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm
For questions regarding this resource, please contact BCO-DMO via the email address provided.
publisher
Cite this dataset as: Wiebe, P. H. (2010) Depth data along the cruise track from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown RHB0603 in the Sargasso Sea and Southeast North Atlantic Ocean from April 2006 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). Version Date 2010-11-01 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/2993 [access date]
Depth data along the track from RHB0603 Dataset Description: The alongtrack data from the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown were recorded by the shipboard data acquisition system (SCS).
The alongtrack data are in four objects: position, wind, meteorology, bathymetry. The first several fields in each object are the same: time, location and course and speed. In the future all these objects will be combined into one object and the first 6 or 8 fields will not be repeated.
Any questions should be directed to the CMarZ Data Management Office. Methods and Sampling:
Funding provided by NOAA Ocean Exploration () Award Number: unknown CMarZ_2004-2010 NOAA OEP
completed
Peter H. Wiebe
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
508-289-2313
Biology Department Redfield 2-26 MS #33
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1049
USA
pwiebe@whoi.edu
pointOfContact
asNeeded
Unknown
yrday_gmt
time_gmt
lat
lon
depth_w
cog
sog
month_gmt
day_gmt
year
theme
None, User defined
yrday_gmt
time_gmt
latitude
longitude
depth_w
No BCO-DMO term
Speed over ground
month_gmt
day_gmt
year
featureType
BCO-DMO Standard Parameters
RHB0603
service
Deployment Activity
Sargasso Sea and Southeast North Atlantic Ocean
place
Locations
otherRestrictions
otherRestrictions
Access Constraints: none. Use Constraints: Please follow guidelines at: http://www.bco-dmo.org/terms-use Distribution liability: Under no circumstances shall BCO-DMO be liable for any direct, incidental, special, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials in this data submission. If you are dissatisfied with any materials in this data submission your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue use.
Census of Marine Life
http://www.coml.org/
Census of Marine Life
The Census of Marine Life is a global network of researchers in more than 80 nations engaged in a 10-year scientific initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans. The world's first comprehensive Census of Marine Life - past, present, and future - will be released in 2010.
The stated purpose of the Census of Marine Life is to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life. Each plays an important role in what is known, unknown, and may never be known about what lives in the global ocean.
First, diversity. The Census aims to make for the first time a comprehensive global list of all forms of life in the sea. No such unified list yet exists. Census scientists estimate that about 230,000 species of marine animals have been described and reside in jars in collections in museums of natural history and other repositories. Since the Census began in 2000, researchers have added more than 5600 species to the lists. They aim to add many thousands more by 2010. The database of the Census already includes records for more than 16 million records, old and new. By 2010, the goal is to have all the old and the new species in an on-line encyclopedia with a webpage for every species. In addition, we will estimate how many species remain unknown, that is, remain to be discovered. The number could be astonishingly large, perhaps a million or more, if all small animals and protists are included. For comparison, biologists have described about 1.5 million terrestrial plants and animals.
Second, distribution. The Census aims to produce maps where the animals have been observed or where they could live, that is, the territory or range of the species. Knowing the range matters a lot for people concerned about, for example, possible consequences of global climate change.
Third, abundance. No Census is complete without measures of abundance. We want to know not only that there is such a thing as a Madagascar crab but how many there are. For marine life, populations are being estimated either in numbers or in total kilos, called biomass.
To complete the context, it is important to understand the top motivations for the Census of Marine Life. Most importantly, much of the ocean is unexplored. Most of the records in its database are for observations near the surface, and down to 1000 meters. No observations have been made in most of the deep ocean, while most of the ocean is deep.
Another important issue is that diversity varies in space. Marine hot spots, like the rain forests of the land, exist off for large fish off the coasts of Brazil and Australia. The goal is to know much more about marine hot spots, to help conserve these large fish. Their abundance and thus their diversity is changing, especially for commercially important species. Between 1952 and 1976, for example, fishermen and their customers emptied many areas of the ocean of tuna.
The Census has evolved a strategy of 14 field projects to touch the major habitats and groups of species in the global ocean. Eleven field projects address habitats, such as seamounts or the Arctic Ocean. Three field projects look globally at animals that either traverse the seas or appear globally distributed: the top predators such as tuna and the plankton and the microbes. The projects employ a mix of technologies. These include acoustics or sound, optics or cameras, tags placed on individual animals that store or report data, and genetics, as well as some actual capture of animals. The technologies complement one another. Sound can survey large areas in the ocean, while light cannot. Light can capture detail and characters that sound cannot. And genetics can make identifications from fragments of specimens or larvae where pictures tell little.
This mix of curiosity, need to know, technology, and scientists willing to investigate the unexplored and undiscovered will result in a Census of Marine Life in 2010 that provides a much clearer picture of what lives below the surface around the globe. Several reasons make such a report timely, indeed urgent. Crises in the sea are reported regularly. One recent study predicted the end of commercial fishery globally by 2050, if current trends persist. Better information is needed to fashion the management that will sustain fisheries, conserve diversity, reverse losses of habitat, reduce impacts of pollution, and respond to global climate change. Hence, there are biological, economic, philosophical and political reasons to push for greater exploration and understanding of the ocean and its inhabitants. Indeed, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity requires signatories to collect information on living resources, but, as yet, no nation has a complete baseline of such information. The Census of Marine Life's global network of researchers will help to fill this knowledge gap, providing critical information to help guide decisions on how to manage global marine resources for the future.
[Text copied from the CoML web site, November 5, 2008]
CoML
largerWorkCitation
program
Census of Marine Zooplankton-2004-2010
http://www.cmarz.org/
Census of Marine Zooplankton-2004-2010
<p><em>The Census of Marine Zooplankton</em> (CMarZ) is a field project of the Census of Marine Life (see <a class="navigation" href="http://www.coml.org" target="_blank">www.CoML.org</a>). CMarZ is working toward a taxonomically comprehensive assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world ocean. The project goal is to produce accurate and complete information on zooplankton species diversity, biomass, biogeographical distribution, genetic diversity, and community structure by 2010. Our taxonomic focus is the animals that drift with ocean currents throughout their lives (i.e., the holozooplankton, Fig. 1). This assemblage currently includes ~6,800 described species in fifteen phyla; our expectation is that at least that many new species will be discovered as a result of our efforts. The census encompasses unique marine environments and those likely to be inhabited by endemic and undescribed zooplankton species.</p>
CMarZ_2004-2010
largerWorkCitation
project
eng; USA
oceans
Sargasso Sea and Southeast North Atlantic Ocean
2010-11-01
Global ocean
0
BCO-DMO catalogue of parameters from Depth data along the cruise track from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown RHB0603 in the Sargasso Sea and Southeast North Atlantic Ocean from April 2006 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
Unavailable
508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
info@bco-dmo.org
http://www.bco-dmo.org
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm
For questions regarding this resource, please contact BCO-DMO via the email address provided.
pointOfContact
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/14753.rdf
Name: yrday_gmt
Units: decimal day
Description: year day, Julian Calendar time.
Useful for plotting time-series data
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/14754.rdf
Name: time_gmt
Units: HHmm.m
Description: time of day; Greenwich Mean Time using 24 hour clock.
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/14755.rdf
Name: lat
Units: decimal degrees
Description: latitude, negative = South
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/14756.rdf
Name: lon
Units: decimal degrees
Description: longitude, negative = West
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/14757.rdf
Name: depth_w
Units: meters
Description: depth of the water
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/14758.rdf
Name: cog
Units: true degrees
Description: course over the ground from satellite
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/14759.rdf
Name: sog
Units: knots (nautical miles per hour)
Description: speed over the ground from satellite
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/14760.rdf
Name: month_gmt
Units: unknown
Description: Month of year, GMT, 1 - 12
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/14761.rdf
Name: day_gmt
Units: unknown
Description: Day of month, GMT, 1 - 31
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/14762.rdf
Name: year
Units: unknown
Description: year
GB/NERC/BODC > British Oceanographic Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, United Kingdom
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
Unavailable
508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
info@bco-dmo.org
http://www.bco-dmo.org
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm
For questions regarding this resource, please contact BCO-DMO via the email address provided.
pointOfContact
10697818
https://datadocs.bco-dmo.org/file/JEE1npgIqDM4DK/alongtrack_depth.csv
alongtrack_depth.csv
Primary data file for dataset ID 2993
download
https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/2993/data/download
download
onLine
asNeeded
7.x-1.1
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
Unavailable
508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
info@bco-dmo.org
http://www.bco-dmo.org
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm
For questions regarding this resource, please contact BCO-DMO via the email address provided.
pointOfContact
Cruise: RHB0603
RHB0603
Community Standard Description
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown
vessel
RHB0603
Peter H. Wiebe
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
http://www.cmarz.org/CMarZ_RHBrown_April06/Cruise_Report/working.htm
Report describing RHB0603
Community Standard Description
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown
vessel