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Heterotrophic bacterial biomass and production data compiled from U.S. JGOFS process study cruises, 1989-1998 (U.S. JGOFS Synthesis & Modeling Phase project results)
2004-12-23
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Dr Thomas Anderson
Southampton Oceanography Centre
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Hugh W. Ducklow
The College of William & Mary
principalInvestigator
Dr Michael Fasham
Southampton Oceanography Centre
principalInvestigator
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
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Cite this dataset as: Ducklow, H. W., Fasham, M., Anderson, T. (2004) Heterotrophic bacterial biomass and production data compiled from U.S. JGOFS process study cruises, 1989-1998 (U.S. JGOFS Synthesis & Modeling Phase project results). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 23 December 2004) Version Date 2004-12-23 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/3172 [access date]
Heterotrophic bacterial biomass and production data compiled from U.S. JGOFS process study cruises Dataset Description: <p>This is a proposal for the Synthesis and Modelling Program (SMP) of US JGOFS aimed at modelling and synthesis of data on carbon fluxes and transformations mediated by oceanic bacterioplankton. A central goal of JGOFS, and of ocean biogeochemistry overall, is understanding how ocean ecosystems control carbon flux between the atmosphere, ocean and sediments. Among the major elements of the SMP is the following:<br />
"Modeling the major mechanisms responsible for observed local inventories and fluxes of carbon and other substances is essential to the development of larger-scale models. There is therefore a need for mass balances for carbon and other associated substances at the process study and time-series sites as well as quantification of the principal controlling mechanisms" (NSF Announcement of Opportunity 98-133).<br />
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Bacteria are a major (and perhaps the dominant) component of biomass in many ocean systems. They metabolize amounts of carbon equivalent to ~50% of local primary production in the euphotic zone on a daily basis. A principal achievement of JGOFS was new recognition of the importance of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in the ocean carbon cycle. Bacteria are practically the sole agents of DOC turnover in aquatic ecosystems. Further, they contribute to particle formation and breakdown through intense biosynthetic and hydrolytic processes, thus influencing vertical sedimentation rates and patterns. The proposed research will contribute to the SMP goals by achieving improved quantitative understanding of the roles of bacteria in euphotic zone production and export of carbon and related biologically-active substances, an area targeted by the announcement of opportunity.</p>
<p>An unprecedented amount of data on bacterioplankton abundance and production rates was obtained during JGOFS but it has yet to make its mark in ocean biogeochemistry. At the time the JGOFS studies were designed in the mid-1980's, conceptual models of bacterial processes were crude, and numerical models were largely nonexistent. Development of both types of models has advanced in the JGOFS decade, but mostly without benefit of empirical constraints. JGOFS bacterial data, on the other hand, have some significant shortcomings: extrapolations of biomass levels from abundance (and more recently biovolume) measurements are uncertain by perhaps an order of magnitude. Carbon-based rates of production derived from isotopic precursor incorporation rates are similarly uncertain. By participating in the JGOFS SMP, by improving and constraining existing models with new data, and by developing new models, both conceptual and numerical, we hope to meet two principal goals: 1) reduce the uncertainties of, and add meaning to the observations; and 2) improve our understanding of how bacteria influence carbon fluxes and ecosystem functions in ocean plankton systems.</p>
<p>The proposed research represents a collaborative effort between an observational marine microbial ecologist (Ducklow) and two ocean biogeochemical/ecological modelers (Fasham and Anderson). Ducklow participated in the four US JGOFS Process Studies and BATS and is responsible for most of the bacterial data collected by US JGOFS. Fasham participated in NABE, and with Anderson, developed the prototype ecosystem models used in the current generation of ocean carbon models. Our research will proceed in two parallel stages: We will use simple mass balance budgets, flow analytical and numerical simulation models with JGOFS data on primary production and respiration, DOC turnover and particle fluxes to constrain estimates of bacterial stocks and fluxes in each of the process studies and time series.<br />
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With the "improved" JGOFS bacterial data generated by these exercises, we will develop new bacterial formulations and microbial components for ecosystem models to be used in the SMP. We will also produce standardized data sets on bacterial processes for use by other modelers.</p> Methods and Sampling:
Funding provided by National Science Foundation (NSF) Award Number: unknown SMP NSF
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Dr Thomas Anderson
Southampton Oceanography Centre
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Hugh W. Ducklow
The College of William & Mary
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hducklow@ldeo.columbia.edu
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Dr Michael Fasham
Southampton Oceanography Centre
mjf@socnet.soc.soton.ac.uk
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U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
http://usjgofs.whoi.edu/
U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
The United States Joint Global Ocean Flux Study was a national component of international JGOFS and an integral part of global climate change research.
The U.S. launched the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) in the late 1980s to study the ocean carbon cycle. An ambitious goal was set to understand the controls on the concentrations and fluxes of carbon and associated nutrients in the ocean. A new field of ocean biogeochemistry emerged with an emphasis on quality measurements of carbon system parameters and interdisciplinary field studies of the biological, chemical and physical process which control the ocean carbon cycle. As we studied ocean biogeochemistry, we learned that our simple views of carbon uptake and transport were severely limited, and a new "wave" of ocean science was born. U.S. JGOFS has been supported primarily by the U.S. National Science Foundation in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Energy and the Office of Naval Research. U.S. JGOFS, ended in 2005 with the conclusion of the Synthesis and Modeling Project (SMP).
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<p>There were no cruises associated directly with the US JGOFS SMP. The SMP deployment refers to the project being deployed.</p>
<h3>INTRODUCTION</h3>
<p>The Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) was an international scientific program devoted to the study of the ocean biogeochemistry of carbon and related elements and the linkages of the ocean with the global carbon cycle. The U.S. JGOFS program involved a decade long, intensive field effort that included: two on-going time-series stations off Hawaii and Bermuda; a series of process studies in the North Atlantic, Equatorial Pacific, Arabian Sea, and Southern Ocean; and a Global Ocean CO<sub>2</sub> Survey in conjunction with the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE). The resulting ocean biogeochemical data sets, together with satellite ocean color data from the NASA Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS), formed a unique, long-term resource for the ocean community. With the completion of the field phase in the late 1990s, the U.S. JGOFS initiated a final Synthesis and Modeling Project (SMP), to build on and integrate these data sets in order to address the key scientific themes of JGOFS:</p>
<ul><li>determine the processes controlling the oceanic carbon cycle and ocean-atmosphere carbon fluxes</li>
<li>develop improved capabilities for predicting future changes.</li>
</ul><p>Specifically, the central objective of the SMP was to synthesize knowledge gained from U.S. JGOFS and related studies into a set of models to reflect the current understanding of the ocean carbon cycle and its associated uncertainties (U.S. JGOFS, 1997). The SMP was tasked to address not only the processes that control carbon partitioning among oceanic reservoirs, but also the implications for ocean/atmosphere carbon exchange. Both data synthesis and modeling proposals were encouraged with an emphasis on coordinated interaction between the two. The major elements of the program included:</p>
<ul><li>Individual PI level projects</li>
<li>Topical Working Groups</li>
<li>Project management team (two co-coordinators and a project scientist)</li>
<li>Data management (both distributed and centralized)</li>
<li>Community activities (PI meetings, mini-workshops, special issues etc.).</li>
</ul><p>The SMP became a full fledged program with the funding of the first SMP awards in early 1998. Funding for SMP grants was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and Department of Energy (DOE).</p>
<h3>PROGRAM SCOPE</h3>
<p>Specific projects within the SMP fell into two broad categories: data synthesis and extrapolation, and modeling. There was considerable (and necessary) overlap between the two, and the overview of the projects provided below is certainly a simplification of the collective efforts of the individual researchers (details on individual SMP grants can be found at <a href="http://usjgofs.whoi.edu/mzweb/syn-mod.htm">http://usjgofs.whoi.edu/mzweb/syn-mod.htm</a>). The scope and balance of the SMP was based on geographic region of study and investigation of biogeochemical processes.</p>
<h3>Synthesis and Modeling Projects</h3>
<p>The U.S. JGOFS SMP continued through the 2003-2004 time frame. As the program matured and specific initial projects were completed, the foci for the program was refined to emphasize both emerging new scientific directions and remaining unfinished elements of the original implementation plan. The SMP together with the U.S. JGOFS Steering Committee periodically assessed the program with regard to future priorities. During the active research phase, these are some of the topics identified as filling critical gaps for SMP science:</p>
<ol><li>synthesis of primary production, new production and export production (both particulate and dissolved)</li>
<li>the mechanisms and rates of mid to deep water particle flux and remineralization as well as sediment diagenesis</li>
<li>controls and distributions of calcium carbonate and silica production, transport and remineralization</li>
<li>biogeochemical effects of trace metal cycling</li>
<li>spatial and temporal extrapolation of biogeochemical flux estimates (e.g. export production) from local to basin and global scales</li>
<li>development, evaluation and incorporation of mechanistically based, biological models for global carbon cycle simulations</li>
<li>synthesis and modeling studies of the Arabian Sea, Southern Ocean, North Atlantic, ocean margins (with respect to the role of each in basin to global-scale carbon cycle), and the set of U.S. and international time-series stations data.</li>
</ol><p>At the local to regional scale, a series of data synthesis and food web modeling investigations explored aspects of euphotic zone production, recycling, export, transport and remineralization, and sediment cycling using the JGOFS process and time-series data base and related data sets. Individual projects concentrated, for example, on subsets of the overall JGOFS data (e.g. bacteria, mesozooplankton, HPLC pigments). Related projects focused on the distribution and dynamics of planktonic functional groups (e.g. N<sub>2</sub> fixers, diatoms, calcifiers). The eventual aim of many of these food web related studies was to extrapolate the findings to basin and global scale and/or to develop improved process-based parameterizations that could be incorporated into regional and global models.</p>
<p>One or more regional ecosystem modeling studies were undertaken for each of the following U.S. process/time-series study locations: Equatorial Pacific and Atlantic, Arabian Sea, Ross Sea, Bermuda, and North Atlantic. Additionally, there were four projects which concentrated on data synthesis and/or modeling for various continental margins: NW Atlantic margin, southern Caribbean, Cariaco Basin, and several coastal upwelling regions. The regional synthesis and modeling studies as well as some of the food web projects relied heavily on satellite data. Many SMP projects utilized satellite data, in particular SeaWiFS ocean color, as an integral part of both model evaluation and time/space extrapolation.</p>
<p>On the global perspective, over a dozen synthesis groups worked on the JGOFS/WOCE global CO<sub>2</sub> survey data with good coverage for all of the carbon related parameters (DIC, alkalinity, <sup>13</sup>C, <sup>14</sup>C, nutrients, oxygen, pCO<sub>2</sub>, etc.). A coordinated global biogeochemical modeling effort was initiated as part of the international Ocean Carbon Model Intercomparison Project (OCMIP, <a href="http://www.ipsl.jussieu.fr/OCMIP/">http://www.ipsl.jussieu.fr/OCMIP/</a>). As the name implies, this was an observation-based evaluation of some thirteen global ocean biogeochemical models of the natural and anthropogenic inorganic carbon system, biogeochemical fields (nutrients, oxygen), and related passive chemical tracers (e.g. CFCs, <sup>14</sup>C, <sup>3</sup>He).</p>
<h4>Links to Related Programs Subsequent to US JGOFS SMP:</h4>
<p><a href="http://us-ocb.org/">Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB)</a><br /><a href="http://coastalcarbon.pbwiki.com/">North American Carbon Program (NACP) Coastal Synthesis</a><br />
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BCO-DMO catalogue of parameters from Heterotrophic bacterial biomass and production data compiled from U.S. JGOFS process study cruises, 1989-1998 (U.S. JGOFS Synthesis & Modeling Phase project results)
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
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508-289-2009
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USA
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