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ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
13C/12C (del13C) of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) from samples collected on the GP17-OCE cruise on R/V Roger Revelle (RR2214) in the South Pacific and Southern Oceans from December 2022 to January 2023
2025-12-30
publication
2025-12-30
revision
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI BCO-DMO)
2026-01-23
publication
https://doi.org/10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.990510.1
Paul Quay
University of Washington
principalInvestigator
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
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Cite this dataset as: Quay, P. (2026) 13C/12C (del13C) of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) from samples collected on the GP17-OCE cruise on R/V Roger Revelle (RR2214) in the South Pacific and Southern Oceans from December 2022 to January 2023. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2025-12-30 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.990510.1 [access date]
GP17-OCE d13C DIC Dataset Description: Methods and Sampling: <p>Seawater samples for analysis of the 13C/12C of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) were collected in 250 milliliter (ml) ground glass stoppered bottles from Niskin bottles and poisoned with 100 microliters (µl) of mercuric chloride during the cruise.</p>
<p>In the lab, ~50 mls of the seawater sample was acidified and CO2 extracted using a REDICS system. CO₂ gas was collected cryogenically in a liquid nitrogen cold trap after removal of water vapor and transferred to an isotope ratio mass spectrometer (IRMS) for 13C/12C measurement. The measured 13C/12C of the DIC was reported as del13C in units of per mil relative to the PDB standard. The reported uncertainty of the del13C analysis was ±0.03 per mil determined from repeated measurements of a lab standard and duplicate samples measured during GP17 cruise. The del13C measurements were performed at the NOSAMS facility at WHOI.</p>
Funding provided by NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE) Award Number: OCE-2048523 Award URL: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award?AWD_ID=2048523
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Paul Quay
University of Washington
206-685-8061
University of Washington School of Oceanography MS 355351
Seattle
WA
98195-7940
USA
pdquay@uw.edu
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Start_Latitude
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Sample_ID
Station_Depth
Sample_Pressure
DIC_13_12_D_Delta_Bottle
SD1_DIC_13_12_D_Delta_Bottle
Flag_DIC_13_12_D_Delta_Bottle
Thermo Delta Q isotope ratio mass spectrometer
Niskin bottles
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date
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ISO_DateTime_UTC
latitude
longitude
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sample identification
depth_w
water pressure
13C to 12C ratio in DIC
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BCO-DMO Standard Parameters
Isotope-ratio Mass Spectrometer
Niskin bottle
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BCO-DMO Standard Instruments
RR2214
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Papeete, Tahiti to Punta Arenas, Chile
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U.S. GEOTRACES
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U.S. GEOTRACES
GEOTRACES is a SCOR sponsored program; and funding for program infrastructure development is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
GEOTRACES gained momentum following a special symposium, S02: Biogeochemical cycling of trace elements and isotopes in the ocean and applications to constrain contemporary marine processes (GEOSECS II), at a 2003 Goldschmidt meeting convened in Japan. The GEOSECS II acronym referred to the Geochemical Ocean Section Studies To determine full water column distributions of selected trace elements and isotopes, including their concentration, chemical speciation, and physical form, along a sufficient number of sections in each ocean basin to establish the principal relationships between these distributions and with more traditional hydrographic parameters;
* To evaluate the sources, sinks, and internal cycling of these species and thereby characterize more completely the physical, chemical and biological processes regulating their distributions, and the sensitivity of these processes to global change; and
* To understand the processes that control the concentrations of geochemical species used for proxies of the past environment, both in the water column and in the substrates that reflect the water column.
GEOTRACES will be global in scope, consisting of ocean sections complemented by regional process studies. Sections and process studies will combine fieldwork, laboratory experiments and modelling. Beyond realizing the scientific objectives identified above, a natural outcome of this work will be to build a community of marine scientists who understand the processes regulating trace element cycles sufficiently well to exploit this knowledge reliably in future interdisciplinary studies.
Expand "Projects" below for information about and data resulting from individual US GEOTRACES research projects.
U.S. GEOTRACES
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US GEOTRACES GP17 Section: South Pacific and Southern Ocean (GP17-OCE)
http://www.geotraces.org/
US GEOTRACES GP17 Section: South Pacific and Southern Ocean (GP17-OCE)
<p>The U.S. GEOTRACES GP17-OCE expedition departed Papeete, Tahiti (French Polynesia) on December 1st, 2022 and arrived in Punta Arenas, Chile on January 25th, 2023. The cruise took place in the South Pacific and Southern Oceans aboard the R/V Roger Revelle (cruise ID RR2214) with a team of 34 scientists lead by Ben Twining (Chief Scientist), Jessica Fitzsimmons and Greg Cutter (Co-Chief Scientists). GP17 was planned as a two-leg expedition, with its first leg (GP17-OCE) as a southward extension of the 2018 GP15 Alaska-Tahiti expedition and a second leg (GP17-ANT; December 2023-January 2024) into coastal and shelf waters of Antarctica's Amundsen Sea.</p>
<p>The South Pacific and Southern Oceans sampled by GP17-OCE play critical roles in global water mass circulation and associated global transfer of heat, carbon, and nutrients. Specific oceanographic regions of interest for GP17-OCE included: the most oligotrophic gyre in the global ocean, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) frontal region, the previously unexplored Pacific- Antarctic Ridge, the Pacific Deep Water (PDW) flow along the continental slope of South America, and the continental margin inputs potentially emanating from South America.</p>
<p>Further information is available on the <a href="https://usgeotraces.ldeo.columbia.edu/content/gp17-oce" target="_blank">US GEOTRACES website</a> and in the <a href="https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/inventories/cruise_inventory/reports/rogerrevelle_rr2214.pdf" target="_blank">cruise report</a> (PDF).</p>
<p><em>NSF Project Title:</em> Collaborative Research: Management and Implementation of US GEOTRACES GP17 Section: South Pacific and Southern Ocean (GP17-OCE)</p>
<p><em>NSF Award Abstract:</em><br />
This award will support the management and implementation of a research expedition from Tahiti to Chile that will enable sampling for a broad suite of trace elements and isotopes (TEI) across oceanographic regions of importance to global nutrient and carbon cycling as part of the U.S. GEOTRACES program. GEOTRACES is a global effort in the field of Chemical Oceanography, the goal of which is to understand the distributions of trace elements and their isotopes in the ocean. Determining the distributions of these elements and isotopes will increase understanding of processes that shape their distributions, such as ocean currents and material fluxes, and also the processes that depend on these elements, such as the growth of phytoplankton and the support of ocean ecosystems. The proposed cruise will cross the South Pacific Gyre, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, iron-limited Antarctic waters, and the Chilean margin. In combination with a proposed companion GEOTRACES expedition on a research icebreaker (GP17-ANT) that will be joined by two overlapping stations, the team of investigators will create an ocean section from the ocean's most nutrient-poor waters to its highly-productive Antarctic polar region - a region that plays an outsized role in modulating the global carbon cycle. The expedition will support and provide management infrastructure for additional participating science projects focused on measuring specific external fluxes and internal cycling of TEIs along this section.</p>
<p>The South Pacific Gyre and Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean play critical roles in global water mass circulation and associated global transfer of heat, carbon, and nutrients, but they are chronically understudied for TEIs due to their remote locale. These are regions of strong, dynamic fronts where sub-surface water masses upwell and subduct, and biological and chemical processes in these zones determine nutrient stoichiometries and tracer concentrations in waters exported to lower latitudes. The Pacific sector represents an end member of extremely low external TEI surface fluxes and thus an important region to constrain inputs from the rapidly-changing Antarctic continent. Compared to other ocean basins, TEI cycling in these regions is thought to be dominated by internal cycling processes such as biological uptake, regeneration, and scavenging, and these are poorly represented in global ocean models. The cruise will enable funded investigators to address research questions such as: 1) what are relative rates of external TEI fluxes to this region, including dust, sediment, hydrothermal, and cryospheric fluxes? 2) What are the (micro) nutrient regimes that support productivity, and what impacts do biomass accumulation, export, and regeneration have on TEI cycling and stoichiometries of exported material? 3) What are TEI and nutrient stoichiometries of subducting water masses, and how do scavenging and regeneration impact these during transport northward? This management project has several objectives: 1) plan and coordinate a 55-day research cruise in 2021-2022; 2) use both conventional and trace-metal 'clean' sampling systems to obtain TEI samples, as well as facilitate sampling for atmospheric aerosols and large volume particles and radionuclides; 3) acquire hydrographic data and samples for salinity, dissolved oxygen, algal pigments, and macro-nutrients; and deliver these data to relevant repositories; 4) ensure that proper QA/QC protocols, as well as GEOTRACES intercalibration protocols, are followed and reported; 5) prepare the final cruise report to be posted with data; 6) coordinate between all funded cruise investigators, as well as with leaders of proposed GP17-ANT cruise; and 7) conduct broader impact efforts that will engage the public in oceanographic research using immersive technology. The motivations for and at-sea challenges of this work will be communicated to the general public through creation of immersive 360/Virtual Reality experiences, via a collaboration with the Texas A&M University Visualization LIVE Lab. Through Virtual Reality, users will experience firsthand what life and TEI data collection at sea entail. Virtual reality/digital games and 360° experiences will be distributed through GEOTRACES outreach websites, through PI engagement with local schools, libraries, STEM summer camps, and adult service organizations, and through a collaboration with the National Academy of Sciences.</p>
GP17-OCE
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US GEOTRACES OCE: Measuring the distribution of stable carbon isotopes and estimating organic matter export rates
https://osprey.bco-dmo.org/project/987217
US GEOTRACES OCE: Measuring the distribution of stable carbon isotopes and estimating organic matter export rates
<p><em>NSF Award Abstract:</em><br />
The goal of this project is to measure the concentration of the rare isotope of carbon (13C) present in the carbon dioxide (CO2) molecules dissolved in seawater of the South Pacific Ocean. 13C atoms make up only 1% of the carbon atoms on earth whereas atoms with the common carbon isotope (12C) make up 99% of the carbon atoms. Variations in the concentration of 13C atoms are represented relative to the concentration of 12C atoms and expressed as the 13C/12C ratio. The utility of measuring spatial variations in the 13C/12C of CO2 in the ocean results from two observations. First, during photosynthesis the 13C/12C of the plant (phytoplankton in the ocean) is distinctly different from the 13C/12C of CO2 consumed during photosynthesis. Second, the 13C/12C of CO2 molecules produced during the combustion of fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas) is measurably different from the 13C/12C of CO2 in the atmosphere and ocean. As a result, measuring the spatial variations of 13C/12C of CO2 in the ocean can be used to estimate variations in the rate of photosynthesis and the rate at which CO2 produced by fossil fuel combustion is being adsorbed by the ocean. Estimating variations in these two rates are goals of this project.</p>
<p>The 13C/12C of CO2 in the ocean depends in large part on the rates of photosynthesis and respiration, which results in spatial covariations in the 13C/12C of CO2, concentrations of primary nutrients (nitrate and phosphate) and trace elements that are used by phytoplankton (e.g., Cadmium). In this project, the planned measurements of the 13C/12C of CO2, nutrients and trace elements during the GEOTRACES GP17 cruise will be used to determine how the north-south variations in biological productivity (photosynthesis and respiration), elemental composition of sinking particles and water mass mixing control the regional variations in the 13C/12C of CO2, nutrients and bioactive trace element distributions in the South Pacific Ocean. An improved understanding of the biological, chemical and physical processes that control spatial variations of 13C/12C of CO2, bioactive trace elements and nutrient distributions in the modern ocean will improve our ability to use 13C/12C and trace elements measurements on CaCO3 preserved in the sedimentary record to reconstruct past changes in the ocean circulation and CO2 cycling in the paleo ocean. The project will involve undergraduate students in the research activities and carry out public outreach through University of Washington, Program on Climate Change (PCC).</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>
GP17-OCE 13C-DIC
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Papeete, Tahiti to Punta Arenas, Chile
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2022-12-04
2023-01-24
From projects that focused on the following 2 locations: 1. Papeete, Tahiti to Punta Arenas, Chile 2. South Pacific and Southern Oceans
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BCO-DMO catalogue of parameters from 13C/12C (del13C) of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) from samples collected on the GP17-OCE cruise on R/V Roger Revelle (RR2214) in the South Pacific and Southern Oceans from December 2022 to January 2023
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
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WHOI MS#36
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http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/990531.rdf
Name: Station_ID
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Station number</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/990532.rdf
Name: Start_Date_UTC
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Station start date</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/990533.rdf
Name: Start_Time_UTC
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Start time of the specific cast</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/990534.rdf
Name: Start_ISO_DateTime_UTC
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Start date and time (UTC) in ISO8601 format. Time represents the time at which the specific Niskin bottle was collected on that cast.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/990535.rdf
Name: Start_Latitude
Units: degrees North
Description: <p>Station latitude start</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/990536.rdf
Name: Start_Longitude
Units: degrees East
Description: <p>Station longitude start</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/990537.rdf
Name: Event_ID
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Event number</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/990538.rdf
Name: Sample_ID
Units: unitless
Description: <p>GEOTRACES sample number</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/990539.rdf
Name: Station_Depth
Units: meters (m)
Description: <p>Maximum cast depth</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/990540.rdf
Name: Sample_Pressure
Units: millibars (mbars)
Description: <p>Pressure at Niskin Sample Collection</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/990541.rdf
Name: DIC_13_12_D_Delta_Bottle
Units: per mil (vs PDB)
Description: <p>del13C of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon. This parameter has been registered in the GEOTRACES DOoR system as DIC_13_12_D_DELTA_BOTTLE::ujmclx.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/990542.rdf
Name: SD1_DIC_13_12_D_Delta_Bottle
Units: per mil
Description: <p>One standard deviation of del13C measurement. This parameter has been registered in the GEOTRACES DOoR system as 1SD::DIC_13_12_D_DELTA_BOTTLE::ujmclx.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/990543.rdf
Name: Flag_DIC_13_12_D_Delta_Bottle
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Quality Control Flag for del13C measurement (2=good; 3= questionable; 4=bad; 6=duplicate). This parameter has been registered in the GEOTRACES DOoR system as Flag::DIC_13_12_D_DELTA_BOTTLE::ujmclx.</p>
GB/NERC/BODC > British Oceanographic Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, United Kingdom
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
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https://doi.org/10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.990510.1
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<p>Seawater samples for analysis of the 13C/12C of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) were collected in 250 milliliter (ml) ground glass stoppered bottles from Niskin bottles and poisoned with 100 microliters (µl) of mercuric chloride during the cruise.</p>
<p>In the lab, ~50 mls of the seawater sample was acidified and CO2 extracted using a REDICS system. CO₂ gas was collected cryogenically in a liquid nitrogen cold trap after removal of water vapor and transferred to an isotope ratio mass spectrometer (IRMS) for 13C/12C measurement. The measured 13C/12C of the DIC was reported as del13C in units of per mil relative to the PDB standard. The reported uncertainty of the del13C analysis was ±0.03 per mil determined from repeated measurements of a lab standard and duplicate samples measured during GP17 cruise. The del13C measurements were performed at the NOSAMS facility at WHOI.</p>
Specified by the Principal Investigator(s)
- Converted original file "G17_d13Cdata_BCO_DMO_revsd.xlsx" to CSV format.
- Imported file "G17_d13Cdata_BCO_DMO_revsd.csv" into the BCO-DMO system.
- Marked "nd" as a missing data value (missing data are blank/empty in the final CSV file).
- Converted Start_Date_UTC column to YYYY-MM-DD format.
- Converted Start_Time_UTC column to HH:MM format.
- Removed the following empty columns: End_Date_UTC, End_Time_UTC, End_Latitude, End_Longitude.
- Changed the quality flag from "3" to "6" for the second row of the following samples: 16670, 16678, and 17148 (duplicate measurements).
- Saved the final file as "990510_v1_gp17-oce_d13c_dic.csv".
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Thermo Delta Q isotope ratio mass spectrometer
Thermo Delta Q isotope ratio mass spectrometer
PI Supplied Instrument Name: Thermo Delta Q isotope ratio mass spectrometer PI Supplied Instrument Description:The 13C/12C of the CO₂ gas extracted from seawater sample was measured on a Thermo Delta Q isotope ratio mass spectrometer. Instrument Name: Isotope-ratio Mass Spectrometer Instrument Short Name:IR Mass Spec; IRMS Instrument 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). Community Standard Description: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/LAB16/
Niskin bottles
Niskin bottles
PI Supplied Instrument Name: Niskin bottles PI Supplied Instrument Description:Seawater samples for analysis of the 13C/12C of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) were collected in 250 ml ground glass stoppered bottles from Niskin bottles and poisoned with 100 µl of mercuric chloride during the cruise. Instrument Name: Niskin bottle Instrument Short Name:Niskin bottle Instrument Description: A Niskin bottle (a next generation water sampler based on the Nansen bottle) is a cylindrical, non-metallic water collection device with stoppers at both ends. The bottles can be attached individually on a hydrowire or deployed in 12, 24, or 36 bottle Rosette systems mounted on a frame and combined with a CTD. Niskin bottles are used to collect discrete water samples for a range of measurements including pigments, nutrients, plankton, etc. Community Standard Description: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L22/current/TOOL0412/
Cruise: RR2214
RR2214
R/V Roger Revelle
Community Standard Description
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
R/V Roger Revelle
vessel
RR2214
Benjamin Twining
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/inventories/cruise_inventory/reports/rogerrevelle_rr2214.pdf
Report describing RR2214
R/V Roger Revelle
Community Standard Description
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
R/V Roger Revelle
vessel