Dataset: Ruiz-Cooly 2014 - Sperm whale sample info

Name: Sperm whale skin tissue samples analyzed for C and N at UC-Santa Cruz: date and location of collection from the California Current System
Published: 2016-08-02
Keywords: biota, oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:46.97 E:-117.35 S:32.47 W:-129.82

Project:

A novel approach for evaluating temporal and spatial changes in trophic structure of the mesopelagic eastern Pacific (Sperm Whale SI Ratios)

Principal Investigator:

Paul L. Koch (University of California-Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Matthew D. McCarthy (University of California-Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz)

Student:

Rocio I. Ruiz-Cooley (University of California-Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version Date:

2016-08-02

Restricted:

Validated:

Current State:

Preliminary and in progress

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/653118/data

Sperm whale skin tissue samples analyzed for C and N at UC-Santa Cruz: date and location of collection from the California Current System

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Description

The sperm whale skin tissue came from the California Current System from 1972 to 2005.

Related Reference:
All sampling and analytical information are supplied in: Ruiz-Cooley RI, Koch PL, Fiedler PC, McCarthy MD (2014) Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes from Top Predator Amino Acids Reveal Rapidly Shifting Ocean Biochemistry in the Outer California Current. PLoS ONE, 9(10), e110355. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110355.s002.

Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing:
- added conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date, reference information
- renamed parameters to BCO-DMO standard
- reformatted date from Mon-yy to yyyy-mm
- reformatted longitude from decimal degrees west to east
- replaced hyphens with nd (no data); replaced commas with semi-colons

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1155728

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
lab_UCSC_Koch		2012-03-01	UCSC		data info

Instruments

Gas Chromatograph

Supplied Name:

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Gas Chromatograph

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/LAB02/

Generic Description:

Instrument separating gases, volatile substances, or substances dissolved in a volatile solvent by transporting an inert gas through a column packed with a sorbent to a detector for assay. (from SeaDataNet, BODC)

Isotope-ratio Mass Spectrometer

Supplied Name:

Supplied Description:

Thermo Finnigan DeltaPlus XP isotope ratio mass spectrometer (Thermo Scientific, Bremen, Germany)

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Isotope-ratio Mass Spectrometer

Acronym: IR Mass Spec

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/LAB16/

Generic Description:

The Isotope-ratio Mass Spectrometer is a particular type of mass spectrometer used to measure the relative abundance of isotopes in a given sample (e.g. VG Prism II Isotope Ratio Mass-Spectrometer).

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
SWFSC_id	identification number assigned to sample at Southwest Fisheries Science Center	unitless	sample
UCSC_id	identification number assigned to sample at UC Santa Cruz	unitless	sample
tissue	type of tissue sample	unitless	sample_type
preservation	how the sample was stored; either by dimethyl sulfide (DMSO) or freezing	unitless	unknown
sex	sex of animal: F=female; M=male; U=unknown	unitless	sex
source	how the sample was collected (either from stranded animals or by biopsy) and where the sample was archived	unitless	sample_descrip
date_collected	date sample was collected; format: yyyy-mm	year; month	date
site_collected	location of sample collection	unitless	site
lat	latitude; north is positive	decimal degrees	lat
lon	longitude; east is positive	decimal degrees	lon

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Dataset: Ruiz-Cooly 2014 - Sperm whale sample info