Dataset: Radium isotopes in groundwater

Name: Radium isotope results from groundwater wells around Little Lagoon, Alabama from 2010-2012 (LittleLagoonGroundwater project)
Published: 2014-11-05
Keywords: Radium isotopes, Submarine groundwater discharge, algal blooms, inlandWaters

Cite This Dataset

Spatial Extent: N:30.275 E:-87.657 S:30.245 W:-87.786

Temporal Extent: 2010-06-29 - 2012-05-21

Project:

Groundwater Discharge, Benthic Coupling and Microalgal Community Structure in a Shallow Coastal Lagoon (LittleLagoonGroundwater)

Principal Investigator:

William C. Burnett (Florida State University, FSU - EOAS)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Behzad Mortazavi (University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, UA/Tuscaloosa)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Ms Dicky Allison (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

working toward final

Version Date:

2014-11-05

Restricted:

Validated:

Current State:

Final with updates expected

Radium isotope results from groundwater wells around Little Lagoon, Alabama from 2010-2012 (LittleLagoonGroundwater project)

Expand/Collapse All

Description

Radium isotope results from groundwater wells around Lake Shelby, Alabama. These data are part of a study to assess submarine groundwater discharge.

Results, methodology, summary tables and instrumentation are included in:

Su, Ni, W.C. Burnett, H.L. MacIntyre, J.D. Liefer, R.N. Peterson and R. Viso, 2014. Natural Radon and Radium Isotopes for Assessing Groundwater Discharge into Little Lagoon, AL: Implications for Harmful Algal Blooms. Estuaries and Coasts, 37: 893-910. (pdf)

Keywords: Radium isotopes; Submarine groundwater discharge; algal blooms;

Data Files

File
radium_isotopes_gw_rs.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 6.11 KB) MD5:e02dc0a5d3138bf584df691359960d75 Primary data file for dataset ID 537393

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0961970

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
LittleLagoon		2010-04-05	SmallBoat_FSU	William C. Burnett (Chief Scientist)	data info

Instruments

Gamma Ray Spectrometer

Supplied Name: Ortec IG detector

Supplied Description:

with relative efficiency of 20% (Dulaiova and Burnet, 2004) - see methodology paper by Su et al.

Ra determined via Lucas cell counting and assessed by gamma spectrometry (R=0.97, n=112).

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Gamma Ray Spectrometer

Generic Description:

Instruments measuring the relative levels of electromagnetic radiation of different wavelengths in the gamma-ray waveband.

Parameters

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

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
date_local	date at time of collection	dd-mon-yy	date_local
lat	latitude	decimal degrees; North is positive	lat
lon	longitude	decimal degrees; West is negative	lon
temp	temperature of water	degrees centigrade	temp
Ra228	radium isotope 224	disintegrations per minute per 100 Liters	no_bcodmo_term
Ra228_err	uncertainty of measurements - plus or minus one delta	disintegrations per minute per 100 Liters	no_bcodmo_term
Ra224	radium isotope 224	disintegrations per minute per 100 Liters	no_bcodmo_term
err_Ra224	uncertainty of measurements - plus or minus one delta	disintegrations per minute per 100 Liters	no_bcodmo_term
Ra226	radium isotope 224	disintegrations per minute per 100 Liters	no_bcodmo_term
err_Ra226	uncertainty of measurements - plus or minus one delta	disintegrations per minute per 100 Liters	no_bcodmo_term
Ra223	radium isotope 223	disintegrations per minute per Liter	radioactive_isotope_conc
err_Ra223	uncertainty of measurements - plus or minus one delta	disintegrations per minute per Liter	radioactive_isotope_err
yrday_local	day of year - mostly for plotting	julian day	yrday_local
sal	salinity	practical salinity units	sal
site	descriptive text for station	text	site
year	year of collection	yyyy	year

Status message

Database

Contribute Data

Dataset: Radium isotopes in groundwater