http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/996532
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2026-04-09
ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Observations from two gliders deployed in the southern Ross Sea from November 2022 through January 2023
2026-04-14
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2026-04-14
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BCO-DMO Linked Data URI
2026-04-14
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http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/996532
Walker O. Smith
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
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
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Cite this dataset as: Smith, W. O. (2026) Observations from two gliders deployed in the southern Ross Sea from November 2022 through January 2023. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2026-04-14 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/996532 [access date]
Glider observations from the southern Ross Sea Dataset Description: Methods and Sampling: <p>Gliders were deployed from the fast ice near Cape Crozier (Ross Island) on 29 November and 4 December, 2022. Recovery of gliders were from the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer Cruise NBP23-02 on January 18, 2023<br />
<br />
Two profiling ocean gliders (Seagliders SG613 and SG676) were deployed from the fast ice adjacent to the Ross ice shelf near Cape Crozier. SG613 and SG676 collected 774 and 688 profiles, respectively, where each profile (taking typically 1.5 hours) is either an ascent or descent, with its mean time assigned. Temperature, salinity (Seabird CT sail), dissolved oxygen (Aanderaa 4330 optode), Chl‐a fluorescence (a proxy for phytoplankton biomass), and optical backscatter (OBS) at 470 and 700 nanometers (nm) (Seabird Scientific Wetlabs Triplet ECOpuck) were measured. SG613 also carried a photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) sensor. Glider sensors were factory‐calibrated before the deployment. Data were processed using the UEA Seaglider Toolbox (<a href="https://bitbucket.org/bastienqueste/uea-seaglider-toolbox/src/toolbox/" target="_blank">https://bitbucket.org/bastienqueste/uea-seaglider-toolbox/src/toolbox/</a>, Queste et al. (2014)), optimizing the hydrodynamic flight model (Frajka‐Williams et al., 2011) and correcting conductivity for thermal hysteresis (Garau et al., 2011). The accuracy of glider fluorescence was ensured via cross‐calibration of fluorescence measurements from both gliders and the CTD rosette at the recovery stations. Discrete chlorophyll samples were collected via the CTD rosette on glass fiber filters upon glider recovery and analyzed fluorometrically (Knap et al., 1996) aboard the Palmer. Glider fluorescence was converted to Chl‐a via a linear regression. Discrete<br />
particulate organic carbon (POC) samples were likewise collected from the recovery CTD cast, filtered through combusted glass fiber filters and analyzed in the laboratory by pyrolysis (Gardner et al., 2000).</p>
Funding provided by NSF Office of Polar Programs (formerly NSF PLR) (NSF OPP) Award Number: ANT-2040571 Award URL: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award/?AWD_ID=2040571
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Walker O. Smith
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
(804) 684-7709
P.O. Box 1346 Rt. 1208 Greate Rd.
Gloucester Point
VA
23062-1346
USA
wos@vims.edu
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Dataset Version: 1
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Seaglider
Dive
Latitude
Longitude
Matlab_Time
ISO_DateTime_UTC
Depth
Temperature
Salinity
Backscatter_470nm
Backscatter_700nm
Fluorescence
Oxygen
Oxygen_Saturation
DACu
DaCv
PAR
Two profiling ocean gliders (Seagliders SG613 and SG676)
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None, User defined
glider_id
dive_id
latitude
longitude
Date and time
ISO_DateTime_UTC
depth
water temperature at measurement depth
salinity
light backscattered
fluorescence
dissolved Oxygen
O2 saturation
No BCO-DMO term
PAR
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BCO-DMO Standard Parameters
Seaglider
instrument
BCO-DMO Standard Instruments
NBP2302
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Deployment Activity
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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.
NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research – P2P: Predators to Plankton — Biophysical Controls in Antarctic Polynyas
https://osprey.bco-dmo.org/project/991048
NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research – P2P: Predators to Plankton — Biophysical Controls in Antarctic Polynyas
<p><em>NSF Award Abstract:</em></p>
<p>NSFGEO-NERC Collaborative Research: P2P: Predators to Plankton – Biophysical controls in Antarctic polynyas</p>
<p>Part I: Non-technical description:<br />
The Ross Sea, a globally important ecological hotspot, hosts 25% to 45% of the world populations of Adélie and Emperor penguins, South Polar skuas, Antarctic petrels, and Weddell seals. It is also one of the few marine protected areas within the Southern Ocean, designed to protect the workings of its ecosystem. To achieve conservation requires participation in an international research and monitoring program, and more importantly integration of what is known about penguin as predators and the biological oceanography of their habitat. The project will acquire data on these species’ role within the local food web through assessing of Adélie penguin feeding grounds and food choices, while multi-sensor ocean gliders autonomously quantify prey abundance and distribution as well as ocean properties, including phytoplankton, at the base of the food web. Additionally, satellite imagery will quantify sea ice and whales, known penguin competitors, within the penguins’ foraging area. Experienced and young researchers will be involved in this project, as will a public outreach program that reaches more than 200 school groups per field season, and with an excess of one million visits to a website on penguin ecology. Lessons about ecosystem change, and how it is measured, i.e. the STEM fields, will be emphasized. Results will be distributed to the world scientific and management communities.</p>
<p>Part II: Technical description:<br />
This project, in collaboration with the United Kingdom (UK) National Environmental Research Council (NERC), assesses food web structure in the southwestern Ross Sea, a major portion of the recently established Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area that has been designed to protect the region’s food web structure, dynamics and function. The in-depth, integrated ecological information collected in this study will contribute to the management of this system. The southwestern Ross Sea, especially the marginal ice zone of the Ross Sea Polynya (RSP), supports global populations of iconic and indicator species: 25% of Emperor penguins, 30% of Adélie penguins, 50% of South Polar skuas, and 45% of Weddell seals. However, while individually well researched, the role of these members as predators has been poorly integrated into understanding of Ross Sea food web dynamics and biogeochemistry. Information from multi-sensor ocean gliders, high-resolution satellite imagery, diet analysis and biologging of penguins, when integrated, will facilitate understanding of the ‘preyscape’ within the intensively investigated biogeochemistry of the RSP. UK collaborators will provide state-of-the-art glider technology, glider programming, ballasting, and operation and expertise to evaluate the oceanographic conditions of the study area. Several young scientists will be involved, as well as an existing outreach program already developed that reaches annually more than 200 K-12 school groups and has more than one million website visits per month.</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>
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2022-11-30
2023-01-19
Southern Ross Sea
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BCO-DMO catalogue of parameters from Observations from two gliders deployed in the southern Ross Sea from November 2022 through January 2023
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.
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http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996812.rdf
Name: Seaglider
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Seaglider ID number</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996813.rdf
Name: Dive
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Dive number is defined as one complete up-down oscillation and numbers are continuous through the entire campaign</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996814.rdf
Name: Latitude
Units: decimal degrees
Description: <p>Latitude in decimal degrees (negative for South). No data are reported until after the first successful surfacing to relay data.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996815.rdf
Name: Longitude
Units: decimal degrees
Description: <p>Longitude in decimal degrees (negative for West). No data are reported until after the first successful surfacing to relay data.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996816.rdf
Name: Matlab_Time
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Matlab date-time</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996817.rdf
Name: ISO_DateTime_UTC
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Date and time (UTC) in ISO 8601 format</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996818.rdf
Name: Depth
Units: meters (m)
Description: <p>Depth from pressure, in meters</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996819.rdf
Name: Temperature
Units: degrees Celsius
Description: <p>Temperature in degrees C</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996820.rdf
Name: Salinity
Units: parts per thousand (ppt)
Description: <p>Salinity in parts per thousand</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996821.rdf
Name: Backscatter_470nm
Units: arbitrary units
Description: <p>Optical backscatter measured at 470 nm</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996822.rdf
Name: Backscatter_700nm
Units: arbitrary units
Description: <p>Optical backscatter measured at 700 nm</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996823.rdf
Name: Fluorescence
Units: arbitrary units
Description: <p>Chlorophyll fluorescence</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996824.rdf
Name: Oxygen
Units: micromoles per liter
Description: <p>Oxygen concentration in micromoles per liter.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996825.rdf
Name: Oxygen_Saturation
Units: micromoles per liter
Description: <p>Oxygen saturation in micromoles per liter calculated from the temperature and salinity data.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996826.rdf
Name: DACu
Units: unitless?
Description: <p>Glider power units</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996827.rdf
Name: DaCv
Units: unitless?
Description: <p>Glider power units</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996828.rdf
Name: PAR
Units: TBD?
Description: <p>Photosynthetically active radiation (measured only on SG613)</p>
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
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http://www.bco-dmo.org
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https://osprey.bco-dmo.org/dataset/996532/data/download
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<p>Gliders were deployed from the fast ice near Cape Crozier (Ross Island) on 29 November and 4 December, 2022. Recovery of gliders were from the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer Cruise NBP23-02 on January 18, 2023<br />
<br />
Two profiling ocean gliders (Seagliders SG613 and SG676) were deployed from the fast ice adjacent to the Ross ice shelf near Cape Crozier. SG613 and SG676 collected 774 and 688 profiles, respectively, where each profile (taking typically 1.5 hours) is either an ascent or descent, with its mean time assigned. Temperature, salinity (Seabird CT sail), dissolved oxygen (Aanderaa 4330 optode), Chl‐a fluorescence (a proxy for phytoplankton biomass), and optical backscatter (OBS) at 470 and 700 nanometers (nm) (Seabird Scientific Wetlabs Triplet ECOpuck) were measured. SG613 also carried a photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) sensor. Glider sensors were factory‐calibrated before the deployment. Data were processed using the UEA Seaglider Toolbox (<a href="https://bitbucket.org/bastienqueste/uea-seaglider-toolbox/src/toolbox/" target="_blank">https://bitbucket.org/bastienqueste/uea-seaglider-toolbox/src/toolbox/</a>, Queste et al. (2014)), optimizing the hydrodynamic flight model (Frajka‐Williams et al., 2011) and correcting conductivity for thermal hysteresis (Garau et al., 2011). The accuracy of glider fluorescence was ensured via cross‐calibration of fluorescence measurements from both gliders and the CTD rosette at the recovery stations. Discrete chlorophyll samples were collected via the CTD rosette on glass fiber filters upon glider recovery and analyzed fluorometrically (Knap et al., 1996) aboard the Palmer. Glider fluorescence was converted to Chl‐a via a linear regression. Discrete<br />
particulate organic carbon (POC) samples were likewise collected from the recovery CTD cast, filtered through combusted glass fiber filters and analyzed in the laboratory by pyrolysis (Gardner et al., 2000).</p>
Specified by the Principal Investigator(s)
<p>Data were processed using the UEA Seaglider Toolbox (<a href="https://bitbucket.org/bastienqueste/uea-seaglider-toolbox/src/toolbox/" target="_blank">https://bitbucket.org/bastienqueste/uea-seaglider-toolbox/src/toolbox/</a>, Queste et al. (2014)), optimizing the hydrodynamic flight model (Frajka‐Williams et al., 2011) and correcting conductivity for thermal hysteresis (Garau et al., 2011). All data were binned and averaged over 3-meter intervals.</p>
Specified by the Principal Investigator(s)
- Imported original CSV files named "P2P_sg676_BCODMO(Sheet1).csv" and "P2P_sg613_BCODMO(Sheet1).csv" into the BCO-DMO system.
- Treated NaN as a missing data value (missing data are empty/blank in the final CSV data file).
- Renamed fields/columns to comply with BCO-DMO naming conventions.
- Concatenated the two data files into a single file, adding a column for the Seaglider ID number.
- Converted Matlab_Time (Matlab serial number) to ISO_DateTime_UTC datetime field formatted as %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ.
- Saved the final file as "996532_v1_ross_sea_gliders.csv".
Specified by BCO-DMO Data Managers
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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.
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Two profiling ocean gliders (Seagliders SG613 and SG676)
Two profiling ocean gliders (Seagliders SG613 and SG676)
PI Supplied Instrument Name: Two profiling ocean gliders (Seagliders SG613 and SG676) PI Supplied Instrument Description:The gliders carried sensors for temperature, salinity (Seabird CT sail), dissolved oxygen (Aanderaa 4330 optode), a WetLabs optical puck to measure Chl‐a fluorescence (a proxy for phytoplankton biomass) and optical backscatter (OBS) at 470 and 700 nm (Seabird Scientific Wetlabs Triplet ECOpuck). The PAR sensor was from BioSpherical Instruments. Instrument Name: Seaglider Instrument Short Name:Seaglider Instrument Description: The Seaglider is an autonomous underwater vehicle developed through a collaboration between The Applied Physics Laboratory -University of Washington and the University of Washington School of Oceanography. These small, free-swimming vehicles can gather conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) data from the ocean for months at a time and transmit it to shore in near-real time via satellite data telemetry. Seagliders make oceanographic measurements traditionally collected by research vessels or moored instruments. They can survey along a transect, profile at a fixed location, and can be commanded to alter their sampling strategies throughout a mission.
Cruise: NBP2302
NBP2302
Community Standard Description
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer
vessel
NBP2302
Philip Bart
Louisiana State University
Community Standard Description
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer
vessel