Dataset: Sediment trap time-series: carbon and nitrogen isotopes

Name: Bulk nitrogen and organic carbon isotopes and sinking flux from a Santa Barbara Basin sediment trap time-series (1994-2017)
Published: 2019-07-17
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:34.2333 E:-120.0333 S:34.2333 W:-120.0333

Temporal Extent: 1993-08-12 - 2017-10-14

Project:

Impact of Ocean Acidification on Planktonic Foraminifera in the California Current System During the Last 300 Years (CCS-Forams)

Principal Investigator:

Dr Catherine Davis (University of South Carolina at Columbia)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

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

Version Date:

2019-07-17

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/773318/data

Bulk nitrogen and organic carbon isotopes and sinking flux from a Santa Barbara Basin sediment trap time-series (1994-2017)

Abstract:

This dataset includes bulk nitrogen and organic carbon isotopes and sinking flux from a Santa Barbara Basin sediment trap time-series (1994-2017).

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Description

This dataset includes bulk nitrogen and organic carbon isotopes and sinking flux from a Santa Barbara Basin sediment trap time-series (1994-2017).

Acquisition Description

Will be available once the paper is published.

Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing Notes:
- added conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
- modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions
- re-formatted date from m/d/yyyy to yyyy-mm-dd

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Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1631977

Deployments

None available yet

Instruments

CHN Elemental Analyzer

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Short Name: CHN_EA

Generic Description

A CHN Elemental Analyzer is used for the determination of carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen content in organic and other types of materials, including solids, liquids, volatile, and viscous samples.

PI supplied instrument name: Perkin Elmer 2400 CHNS/O Elemental Analyzer

Dataset-specific description

Mass Spectrometer

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Short Name: Mass Spec

Community Standard Description

Generic Description

General term for instruments used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions; generally used to find the composition of a sample by generating a mass spectrum representing the masses of sample components.

PI supplied instrument name: VG Isoprime IRMS

Dataset-specific description

Sediment Trap

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Short Name: Sediment Trap

Community Standard Description

Generic Description

Sediment traps are specially designed containers deployed in the water column for periods of time to collect particles from the water column falling toward the sea floor. In general a sediment trap has a jar at the bottom to collect the sample and a broad funnel-shaped opening at the top with baffles to keep out very large objects and help prevent the funnel from clogging. This designation is used when the specific type of sediment trap was not specified by the contributing investigator.

PI supplied instrument name:

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Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Deployment	Sediment trap deployment identifier	unitless	deploy
Cup	Sediment trap cup identifier	unitless	sample
Date_opened	First day cup was open to vertical flux	unitless	date
delta15N	Bulk sediment nitrogen isotopes ratio of stable isotopes 15N:14N	parts per thousand (per mil)	d15N
delta13C_org	Bulk sediment organic carbons isotopes ratio of stable isotopes 13C:12C	parts per thousand (per mil)	d13C
C_flux	Total carbon flux	grams/meter^2/day	unknown
N_flux	Total nitrogen flux	grams/meter^2/day	unknown

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Dataset: Sediment trap time-series: carbon and nitrogen isotopes