http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/917926 eng; USA utf8 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 2024-01-08 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) Relative Particle Density (RPD) calculations using High Frequency Radar (HFR) observed surface currents around Palmer Deep Canyon from January to March of 2020 2024-01-08 publication 2024-01-08 revision Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA) 2024-01-23 publication https://doi.org/10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.917926.1 Joshua Kohut Rutgers University principalInvestigator John M. Klinck Old Dominion University principalInvestigator Matthew Oliver University of Delaware principalInvestigator Hank Statscewich Rutgers University 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: Veatch, J., Klinck, J. M., Oliver, M., Kohut, J., Statscewich, H. (2024) Relative Particle Density (RPD) calculations using High Frequency Radar (HFR) observed surface currents around Palmer Deep Canyon from January to March of 2020. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2024-01-08 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.917926.1 [access date] Methods and Sampling: &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial&quot;&gt;Methods for these LCS results can be found in Veatch, et al. (2024, in revision)&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Relative Particle Density provides the normalized density of drifters within each gridded bin of the study system. Relative Particle Density calculations begin with tracking virtual particles through a velocity field that are released over a regular grid. RPD is calculated by summing the number of drifters in each grid box, and normalizing by the median number of drifters in all grid boxes. In the following analysis, new particles were released in a regular grid across the 80 % coverage of the HFR footprint every three hours. Particles were not counted until they had been advected in the velocity field for 6 hours (when the autocorrelation of the HFR velocities cross the e-fold), and were no longer counted when they were advected out of the HFR domain, or after they became three days old. Given the average residence time of 2 days (Kohut et al., 2018), the three-day threshold was chosen to coordinate with the time phytoplankton will spend in the surface layer of our study domain. This methodology follows that used by (Oliver et al. 2019). RPD reports the normalized number of drifters present in each gridded bin at each timestamp. Two dimensional RPD assumes that no particles are lost from the surface layer due to vertical velocity, meaning that the integrated surface divergence in the x-y plane is assumed to be zero. Therefore, RPD will map the instantaneous concentration of surface associated particles across the entire domain given the evolving surface current fields provided by the HFR.&lt;/p&gt; Funding provided by NSF Office of Polar Programs (formerly NSF PLR) (NSF OPP) Award Number: OPP-1745009 Award URL: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award?AWD_ID=1745009 Funding provided by NSF Office of Polar Programs (formerly NSF PLR) (NSF OPP) Award Number: OPP-1744884 Award URL: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award?AWD_ID=1744884 Funding provided by NSF Office of Polar Programs (formerly NSF PLR) (NSF OPP) Award Number: OPP-1745011 Award URL: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award?AWD_ID=1745011 completed Joshua Kohut Rutgers University 848-932-3496 71 Dudley Rd. Brunswick NJ 08901 USA kohut@marine.rutgers.edu pointOfContact John M. Klinck Old Dominion University 757-683-6005 4111 Monarch Way Norfolk Virginia 23508-2561 USA klinck@ccpo.odu.edu pointOfContact Matthew Oliver University of Delaware 302-645-4079 University of Delaware 1044 College Drive Lewes DE 19958 US moliver@udel.edu pointOfContact Hank Statscewich Rutgers University 907-474-7245 2150 Koyukuk Drive Suite 245, O'Neill Bldg PO Box 757220 Fairbanks AK 99775-7220 USA hank.stats@alaska.edu pointOfContact asNeeded Dataset Version: 1 Unknown High Frequency Radar theme None, User defined High Frequency Radar instrument BCO-DMO Standard Instruments 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. Collaborative Research: Physical Mechanisms Driving Food Web Focusing in Antarctic Biological Hotspots https://osprey.bco-dmo.org/project/850844 Collaborative Research: Physical Mechanisms Driving Food Web Focusing in Antarctic Biological Hotspots <p>NSF Award Abstract:<br /> Undersea canyons play disproportionately important roles as oceanic biological hotspots and are critical for our understanding of many coastal ecosystems. Canyon-associated biological hotspots have persisted for thousands of years Along the Western Antarctic Peninsula, despite significant climate variability. Observations of currents over Palmer Deep canyon, a representative hotspot along the Western Antarctic Peninsula, indicate that surface phytoplankton blooms enter and exit the local hotspot on scales of ~1-2 days. This time of residence is in conflict with the prevailing idea that canyon associated hotspots are primarily maintained by phytoplankton that are locally grown in association with these features by the upwelling of deep waters rich with nutrients that fuel the phytoplankton growth. Instead, the implication is that horizontal ocean circulation is likely more important to maintaining these biological hotspots than local upwelling through its physical concentrating effects. This project seeks to better resolve the factors that create and maintain focused areas of biological activity at canyons along the Western Antarctic Peninsula and create local foraging areas for marine mammals and birds. The project focus is in the analysis of the ocean transport and concentration mechanisms that sustain these biological hotspots, connecting oceanography to phytoplankton and krill, up through the food web to one of the resident predators, penguins. In addition, the research will engage with teachers from school districts serving underrepresented and underserved students by integrating the instructors and their students completely with the science team. Students will conduct their own research with the same data over the same time as researchers on the project. Revealing the fundamental mechanisms that sustain these known hotspots will significantly advance our understanding of the observed connection between submarine canyons and persistent penguin population hotspots over ecological time, and provide a new model for how Antarctic hotspots function.</p> <p> To understand the physical mechanisms that support persistent hotspots along the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP), this project will integrate a modeling and field program that will target the processes responsible for transporting and concentrating phytoplankton and krill biomass to known penguin foraging locations. Within the Palmer Deep canyon, a representative hotspot, the team will deploy a High Frequency Radar (HFR) coastal surface current mapping network, uniquely equipped to identify the eddies and frontal regions that concentrate phytoplankton and krill. The field program, centered on surface features identified by the HFR, will include (i) a coordinated fleet of gliders to survey hydrography, chlorophyll fluorescence, optical backscatter, and active acoustics at the scale of the targeted convergent features; (ii) precise penguin tracking with GPS-linked satellite telemetry and time-depth recorders (TDRs); (iii) and weekly small boat surveys that adaptively target and track convergent features to measure phytoplankton, krill, and hydrography. A high resolution physical model will generalize our field measurements to other known hotspots along the WAP through simulation and determine which physical mechanisms lead to the maintenance of these hotspots. The project will also engage educators, students, and members of the general public in Antarctic research and data analysis with an education program that will advance teaching and learning as well as broadening participation of under-represented groups. This engagement includes professional development workshops, live connections to the public and classrooms, student research symposia, and program evaluation. Together the integrated research and engagement will advance our understanding of the role regional transport pathways and local depth dependent concentrating physical mechanisms play in sustaining these biological hotspots.</p> <p>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.</p> Project SWARM largerWorkCitation project eng; USA oceans -64.6 -63.8 -65 -64.7 2020-01-09 2020-03-31 West Antarctic Peninsula 0 BCO-DMO catalogue of parameters from Relative Particle Density (RPD) calculations using High Frequency Radar (HFR) observed surface currents around Palmer Deep Canyon from January to March of 2020 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 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 8106584 https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/37565c11-2dc3-43b0-8a3f-961a6afa74a6/content download https://doi.org/10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.917926.1 download onLine dataset &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial&quot;&gt;Methods for these LCS results can be found in Veatch, et al. (2024, in revision)&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Relative Particle Density provides the normalized density of drifters within each gridded bin of the study system. Relative Particle Density calculations begin with tracking virtual particles through a velocity field that are released over a regular grid. RPD is calculated by summing the number of drifters in each grid box, and normalizing by the median number of drifters in all grid boxes. In the following analysis, new particles were released in a regular grid across the 80 % coverage of the HFR footprint every three hours. Particles were not counted until they had been advected in the velocity field for 6 hours (when the autocorrelation of the HFR velocities cross the e-fold), and were no longer counted when they were advected out of the HFR domain, or after they became three days old. Given the average residence time of 2 days (Kohut et al., 2018), the three-day threshold was chosen to coordinate with the time phytoplankton will spend in the surface layer of our study domain. This methodology follows that used by (Oliver et al. 2019). RPD reports the normalized number of drifters present in each gridded bin at each timestamp. Two dimensional RPD assumes that no particles are lost from the surface layer due to vertical velocity, meaning that the integrated surface divergence in the x-y plane is assumed to be zero. Therefore, RPD will map the instantaneous concentration of surface associated particles across the entire domain given the evolving surface current fields provided by the HFR.&lt;/p&gt; Specified by the Principal Investigator(s) &lt;p&gt;All data were processed using MATLAB 2019b. Scripts used for data analysis can be found at https://github.com/JackieVeatch/SWARM_LCS.&lt;br /&gt; * Curatorial note: See supplemental file SWARM_LCS-related_to_bcodmo_917926_917914_v1.zip which contains a release corresponding to commit (10931d9).&lt;/p&gt; Specified by the Principal Investigator(s) * netcdf file imported into BCO-DMO. No changes made. * A copy of code repository supplied by submitter https://github.com/JackieVeatch/SWARM_LCS (commit 10931d9) forked to BCO-DMO for curatorial purposes and a release was made on 2024-01-08 https://github.com/BCODMO/SWARM_LCS/releases/tag/related_to_bcodmo_917926_917914_v1. No changes to the code were made. Zip file of this release attache as a supplemental file. Specified by BCO-DMO Data Managers 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 High Frequency Radar High Frequency Radar PI Supplied Instrument Name: High Frequency Radar Instrument Name: High Frequency Radar Instrument Short Name:HFR Instrument Description: High (5-50 MHz) frequency radar transmits electromagnetic waves and records the backscattered signal. Oceanographic usage includes sea surface radar in which the backscattered signals are analyzed to obtain surface current and wave parameters.