| PAR recorded by two Odyssey PAR loggers in the Florida Keys from 11-17 July 2017 | Odyssey PAR logger; Serial numbers 1024, 1025; Calibrations: factory calibrated.
| Odyssey PAR logger |
| Temperature and pCO2 effects on survivability of 25 genotypes of Acropora cervicornis coral at Mote Marine Laboratory in Nov-Dec 2019 | PAR was measured using the Licor handheld (Li-COR LI-1500) with an underwater quantum senor (Li-Cor LI-192).
| LI-COR handheld (Li-COR LI-1500) |
| Aquaria water quality PAR measurements from full factorial study of Acropora cervicornis at Mote Marine Laboratory in Nov-Dec 2019 | PAR was measured using the Licor handheld (Li-COR LI-1500) with an underwater quantum senor (Li-Cor LI-192).
| LI-COR handheld (Li-COR LI-1500) |
| Microbial abundance, activity, and nutrient concentrations in Delaware Bay from R/V Hugh R. Sharp HRS090706DK in the Delaware Bay from July 2009 (Active bacteria in surface waters project) | Biospherical light meter (model PNF-2102P)
Profiling Natural Fluorescence Radiometer: Unlike strobe fluorometers, a natural fluorometer measures fluorescence emitted under the ambient light conditions that are driving photosynthesis in situ.
| Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensor |
| Oxygen measurements from kelp forests and urchin barrens on the Aleutian Islands, Alaska from R/V Oceanus cruises OC1606A and OC1707A during 2016-2017 | | Odyssey PAR Logger |
| PAR measurements from kelp forests and urchin barrens on the Aleutian Islands, Alaska from R/V Oceanus cruises OC1606A and OC1707A during 2016-2017 | | Odyssey PAR Logger |
| Alongtrack data collected continuously by the ship's underway acquisition system from R/V Knorr cruise KN207-03 in the North Atlantic (transect from Ponta Delgada, Azores to Reykjavik, Iceland) in 2012 (NA-VICE project) | Surface irradiance (or surface PAR) measured by Biospherical Instruments Inc. Model QSR-2240A.
| Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensor |
| Data collected daily along the ship track in JGOFS format from ARSV Laurence M. Gould and RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer cruises to the Southern Ocean from 2001-2003 as part of the Southern Ocean GLOBEC project. | Photosynthetically Available Radiation 400-700nm (PAR), sensor package mounted on ship's science mast.
BSI QSR-240
| Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensors |
| Alongtrack data collected continuously by the ship's underway acquisition system from ARSV Laurence M. Gould cruise LMG1110 in the Southern Ocean in 2011 | Biosph. Instr. QSR-240P
| Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensor |
| Alongtrack data collected continuously by the ship's underway acquisition system from R/V Knorr cruise KN207-01 in the southern tip of Nova Scotia to Bermuda in 2012 (SargassoSeaLipids project) | Surface irradiance (or surface PAR) measured by Biospherical Instruments Inc. Model QSR-2240A.
| QSR 2200 Biospherical Instruments |
| Data collected daily along the ship track in from the LMG0602 cruise on ARSV Laurence M. Gould in the Southern Ocean from February to March 2006 (SouthernSalps project) | Mast PAR sensor model: BSI QSR-240P
| Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensor |
| Wind speed, temperature, and PAR observations from Massachusetts from 2012-2015. | Recorded by two towers that were deployed at different times between May-November
| PAR sensor |
| Autotrophy, heterotrophy and niche partitioning in Caribbean sponges sampled June 9, 2019 on reef sites around Bocas del Toro Panama. | Irradiance was measured at multiple depths from collection sites around STRI using a LI-COR LI-193 underwater spherical quantum sensor.
| LI-COR LI-193 underwater spherical quantum sensor |
| Time series data from multiple instruments at 4 sites in Bermuda measured during September 2017 | | Odyssey Photosynthetic active radiation logger |
| Underway data for Blue Heron cruise BH15-11 in the western arm of Lake Superior from August 2015 (Early Career Great Lakes research project, Novel Nutrient Paleoproxy project) | | |
| Bottle sample data from CTD casts from the third cruise of SPIROPA project, R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TN368, to the New England Shelfbreak in July of 2019 | The LI-COR Biospherical SPAR Sensor is used to measure Surface Photosynthetically Available Radiation (SPAR).
| LI-COR Biospherical SPAR |
| Carbon and nitrogen data from kelp determined during seasonal global change experiments examining the effects of seasonal variation in light availability and nutrients on the response of three high-latitude kelp species | A Diving-PAM-II (Heinz Wlz GmbH) MINI-SPEC was used to haphazardly record the photosynthetic photon flux density.
| Diving-PAM-II (Heinz Wlz GmbH) MINI-SPEC |
| CTD profiles from Lake Superior collected during various R/V Blue Heron cruises between 2007-2008 (CARGO project) | | PAR/Irradiance Biospherical QSP-200L |
| Temperature and irradiance from outdoor flumes at the UCB Gump Research Station Moorea, French Polynesia from November of 2015 to March of 2016 | PAR (using cosine-corrected PAR loggers, Dataflow Systems Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand)
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| Light measurements from coral-light experiments (Dufault, 2013, JEB) from Taiwan, 2010 (MCR LTER project, Climate_Coral_Larvae project) | | PAR sensor |
| CTD Averaged Bottle Data from R/V Knorr KN197-08 in the Amazon River plume, NE coast of South America from May to June 2010 (ANACONDAS project) | Surface PAR Biospherical Instruments QSR-240 s/n 6294 Calibrated 13 March 2008
Aquatic PAR Biospherical Instruments s/n QSP-200L4 s/n 4550 Calibrated 13 March 2008
| Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensor |
| CTD data from ring nets used to collect copepods on the RV/Ira, June-Oct 2017 and May 2019 | | Biospherical scalar PAR sensor |
| CTD hydrographic and nutrients data from R/V Endeavor cruise EN496 in July 2011 in the Gulf of Mexico (GoMX - N2 Fixation project) | Biospherical Instruments models QSP200L/QSR-240
| Biospherical Instruments models QSP200L/QSR-240 |
| CTD hydrographic and nutrient data from R/V Endeavor cruise EN509 in May-June 2012 in the Gulf of Mexico (GoMX - N2 Fixation project) | Biospherical Instruments models QSP200L/QSR-240
| Biospherical Instruments models QSP200L/QSR-240 |
| CTD hydrographic and nutrient data from R/V Oceanus cruise OC468-02 in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 (GoMX - N2 Fixation project) | Biospherical underwater PAR (1000m depth limit) with reference Surface PAR
| Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensor |
| CTD Profile Data from R/V Knorr KN197-08 in the Amazon River plume, NE coast of South America from May to June 2010 (ANACONDAS project) | | Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensor |
| CTD profile data from R/V Endeavor cruise EN496 in July 2011 in the Gulf of Mexico (GoMX - N2 Fixation project) | Biospherical Instruments models QSP200L/QSR-240
| Biospherical Instruments models QSP200L/QSR-240 |
| CTD profile data from R/V Endeavor cruise EN509 in May-June 2012 in the Gulf of Mexico (GoMX - N2 Fixation project) | Biospherical Instruments models QSP200L/QSR-240
| Biospherical Instruments models QSP200L/QSR-240 |
| CTD profile data from R/V Oceanus cruise OC468-02 in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 (GoMX - N2 Fixation project) | Biospherical underwater PAR (1000m depth limit) with reference Surface PAR
| Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensor |
| CTD casts from the SPIROPA project from R/V Neil Armstrong cruise AR29, Ronald H. Brown cruise RB1904 and R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TN368 to the New England Shelfbreak in 2018 and 2019 | | LI-COR Biospherical SPAR |
| CTD data from R/V Seward Johnson and R/V Knorr cruises collected in the Tropical Eastern Pacific from 2007-2009 (ETP project) | | Biospherical underwater PAR QSP2300 |
| CTD data from R/V Seward Johnson and R/V Knorr cruises collected in the Tropical Eastern Pacific from 2007-2009 (ETP project) | | Biospherical surface PAR QSR220 |
| Two decibar averaged CTD profiles collected at the Hydrostation S site in the Sargasso Sea from October 1988 (cruise #60643) through July 2024 (cruise #61478) | | Biospherical PAR sensor |
| Integrated daily Photosynthetically Available Radiation (PAR) data from RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer cruises NBP0103, NBP0104, NBP0202, and NBP0204 in the Southern Ocean from 2001-2002 (SOGLOBEC project) | Photosynthetically Available Radiation, PAR (400-700nm). Cosine irradiance (EsPAR) sensors collect light impinging on a Teflon-coated diffuser and the response is proportional to the cosine of the angle of incidence.
| Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensors |
| Coral area from a study of year-long effects of high pCO2 on the community structure of a tropical fore reef assembled in outdoor flumes in Moorea, French Polynesia from 2017 to 2018 | Light in the flumes was measured continuously (at 0.0006 Hz) using cosine-corrected sensors (Odyssey, Dataflow Systems Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand) that recoded PAR. Odyssey sensors were calibrated with a Li-COR meter [LI-1400, Li-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, NE, USA] attached to a 2p sensor [LI 192A])
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| Coral weight from a study of year-long effects of high pCO2 on the community structure of a tropical fore reef assembled in outdoor flumes in Moorea, French Polynesia from 2017 to 2018 | Light in the flumes was measured continuously (at 0.0006 Hz) using cosine-corrected sensors (Odyssey, Dataflow Systems Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand) that recoded PAR. Odyssey sensors were calibrated with a Li-COR meter [LI-1400, Li-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, NE, USA] attached to a 2p sensor [LI 192A])
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| Results from feeding assays conducted as part of seasonal global change experiments examining the effects of seasonal variation in light availability and nutrients on the response of three high-latitude kelp species | A Diving-PAM-II (Heinz Wlz GmbH) MINI-SPEC was used to haphazardly record the photosynthetic photon flux density.
| Diving-PAM-II (Heinz Wlz GmbH) MINI-SPEC |
| Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) from Odyssey PAR sensors deployed at three sites in the Florida Keys in June 2018 | | Odyssey (Dataflow Systems, New Zealand) photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) sensor |
| Bottle and CTD data from the CARNE ASADA project from R/V New Horizon GoCAL4 in the Gulf of California and eastern tropical North Pacific from July to August 2008 (CARNE ASADA project) | Biospherical Instruments PAR sensor model QSP-2300 was employed for PAR mesurements.
| Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensor |
| Ammonium uptake from short-term 6-hour deckboard incubations on R/V Nancy Foster cruises NF1704 and NF1802 in the Gulf of Mexico in May of 2017 and 2018 | 2-π LI-COR photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) sensor to measure downwelling irradiance.
4-π water-proof LI-COR PAR sensor to measure ambient irradiance.
Samples were drawn from depths near these light levels (as determined from noon CTD casts with CTD-mounted PAR sensor).
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| Nitrate uptake from short-term 6-hour deckboard incubations on R/V Nancy Foster cruises NF1704 and NF1802 in the Gulf of Mexico in May of 2017 and 2018 | 2-π LI-COR photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) sensor to measure downwelling irradiance.
4-π water-proof LI-COR PAR sensor to measure ambient irradiance within the incubator.
Samples were drawn from depths near these light levels (as determined from noon CTD casts with CTD-mounted PAR sensor).
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| Ammonium uptake from short-term diel deckboard incubations on R/V Nancy Foster cruises NF1704 and NF1802 in the Gulf of Mexico in May of 2017 and 2018 | 2-π LI-COR photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) sensor to measure downwelling irradiance.
4-π water-proof LI-COR PAR sensor to measure ambient irradiance within the incubator.
Samples were drawn from depths near these light levels (as determined from noon CTD casts with CTD-mounted PAR sensor).
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| Nitrate uptake from short-term diel deckboard incubations on R/V Nancy Foster cruises NF1704 and NF1802 in the Gulf of Mexico in May of 2017 and 2018 | 2-π LI-COR photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) sensor to measure downwelling irradiance.
4-π water-proof LI-COR PAR sensor to measure ambient irradiance within the incubator.
Samples were drawn from depths near these light levels (as determined from noon CTD casts with CTD-mounted PAR sensor).
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| Measurements of seawater temperature, depth, and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) across seven sites at Heron Island, southern Great Barrier Reef from 2015 to 2020 | Seawater temperature, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and depth (2015-2016): Conductivity Temperature Depth units (SBE 16plusVS SEA-CAT) fitted with an auxiliary PAR sensor, Satlantic/ECO-PAR sensor)
| PAR sensor; Satlantic/ECO-PAR sensor |
| Data from moored instruments (pH, dissolved oxygen, temperature, salinity, PAR, pressure) at 9 depths outside and inside the kelp canopy at Hopkins Marine Station, recorded between June and October 2018. | 1 miniPAR sensor (PME, 1 minute sampling frequency). PME miniPAR sensors were paired with
PME miniWIPERs set to wipe the PAR sensors every six hours to prevent biofouling.
| miniPAR sensor |
| Environmental sensor data from an underwater imaging system (ISIIS-3) collected during R/V Langseth cruise MGL2207 July 20-28 2022 and R/V Sally Ride cruise SR2317 August 10-20 2023 in the Northern California Current | Instrumentation associated with ISIIS-3.
| Photosynthetically active radiation/irradiance (Biospherical QCP-2300) |
| Field conditions during grazing experiments in Kaneohe Bay, HI during 2012-2013 (EAGER: Copepod nauplii project) | | |
| Kelp growth data from seasonal global change experiments examining the effects of seasonal variation in light availability and nutrients on the response of three high-latitude kelp species | A Diving-PAM-II (Heinz Wlz GmbH) MINI-SPEC was used to haphazardly record the photosynthetic photon flux density.
| Diving-PAM-II (Heinz Wlz GmbH) MINI-SPEC |
| Bottle data from R/V Kilo Moana KM1314 in the The North Pacific Ocean (Seattle to Honolulu, including Line P, Station ALOHA), Aug - Sept 2013 (Nitrification and Marine Planktonic Biodiversity project) | Biospherical/Licor PAR/Irradiance Sensor
| PAR sensor |
| CTD data from R/V Kilo Moana KM1314 in the The North Pacific Ocean (Seattle to Honolulu, including Line P, Station ALOHA), Aug - Sept 2013 (Nitrification and Marine Planktonic Biodiversity project) | Biospherical/Licor PAR/Irradiance Sensor
| PAR sensor |
| Time series of T. suecica densities under fluctuating temperatures experiment from May 2023 to Aug 2023 | Light was measured using a PAR sensor to verify that each cage was receiving at least 150 µmol m-2 s-2 (saturating irradiance (Bernhardt et al, 2018), and under 200 µmol m-2 s-2 to maintain consistent light conditions between cages.
| PAR sensor |
| Organized and quality-controlled CalCOFI data for CTD casts and bottle measurements from CalCOFI stations between La Jolla, California to Point Conception between 1984-2019 | PAR irradiance sensor QSP-200L from Biospherical Instruments, Inc. (http://www.biospherical.com/)
| PAR irrandiance sensor QSP-200L |
| Organized and quality-controlled CalCOFI data for CTD casts and bottle measurements from CalCOFI stations between La Jolla, California to Point Conception between 1984-2019 | PAR irradiance sensor QSP-2300 from Biospherical Instruments, Inc. (http://www.biospherical.com/).
| PAR irrandiance sensor QSP-2300 |
| Maximum depths of the visual luminoxyscape for four species of marine invertebrate larvae from CalCOFI stations between La Jolla, California to Point Conception between 1984-2019 | PAR irradiance sensor QSP-200L from Biospherical Instruments, Inc. (http://www.biospherical.com/)
| PAR irrandiance sensor QSP-200L |
| Maximum depths of the visual luminoxyscape for four species of marine invertebrate larvae from CalCOFI stations between La Jolla, California to Point Conception between 1984-2019 | PAR irradiance sensor QSP-2300 from Biospherical Instruments, Inc. (http://www.biospherical.com/).
| PAR irrandiance sensor QSP-2300 |
| Cross shelf undulating towed vehicle (Acrobat with MIDAS) survey data from R/V Pelican PE08-54, PE10-01, PE09-12 in the Northwest Florida shelf off Panama City, FL. from 2008-2009 (BenDiM project) | LI-COR LI-190SZ Quantum Sensor
| Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensor |
| All measurements used in the net oxygen production estimates from R/V Yellowfin cruises to the San Pedro Ocean Time-series (SPOT) in 2013 and 2014 | | PAR sensor |
| CTD profiles from the Lake Superior collected during various R/V Blue Heron cruises between 2004-2006 (NILS project) | Biospherical/Licor
| Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensor |
| Incident PAR, daily totals from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruises TT007, TT008, TT011 in the Equatorial Pacific in 1992 during the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) project | | Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensors |
| Photosynthetically Available Radiation (PAR) from R/V Thomas G. Thompson TT043, TT045, TT049, TT050, TT053, TT054 cruises in the Arabian Sea in 1995 (U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea project) | | Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensor |
| PAR data from stable isotope experiments conducted in Massachusetts from 2012. | Situated in the middle of a fiberglass tank.
| LI-COR underwater spherical quantum sensor (LI-193) and datalogger (LI-1400) |
| CTD data, bottle nutrients, and chlorophyll-a from phytoplankton taxa from R/V Pelican PE08-54, PE09-12, PE10-01 in the Northwest Florida shelf off Panama City FL. from 2008-2009 (BenDiM project) | | Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensor |
| Physicochemical and phytoplankton data collected during the STRATIPHYT I and II cruises in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. Cruises took place during the summer of 2009 and spring of 2011 aboard the R/V Pelagia. | photosynthetic active radiation (PAR; Satlantic)
| Satlantic |
| Links to accessions for 18S rDNA, chloroplast and metagenomics (picoeukaryote) data from multiple cruises from the Sargasso Sea and CalCOFI line 67 from 2001-2009 (PHYTO_GENOME project) | | Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensor |
| Compilation of primary productivity measurements collected from 1983-2006 from the Ross Sea | Irradiance was determined largely using an in situ PAR sensor, but earlier cruises also used a secchi disk.
| in situ PAR sensor |
| Compilation of primary productivity measurements collected from 1983-2006 from the Ross Sea | Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) were collected using a BioSpherical Sensor Model QSP-240 placed as close to the incubators as possible.
| BioSpherical Sensor Model QSP-240 |
| Simulated in situ production data from RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer cruises NBP0103, NBP0104, NBP0202, and NBP0204 in the Southern Ocean from 2001-2002 (SOGLOBEC project) | Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensors, PAR was measured with a Biospherical Instruments GUV Radiometer (cosine-corrected downwelled irradiance) mounted on ship's science mast configured with PAR channels (400-700nm).
| Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensors |
| CTD profiles from the Great Lakes, North America collected during various R/V Blue Heron cruises between 2009-2012 (SINC project) | | Biospherical QSP-200L |
| Photosynthetically available radiation (PAR) from R/V Endeavor cruises in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank in 1995 as part of the U.S. GLOBEC program (GB project) | Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensors. Biospherical Inst. PUV-500, PUV-510. Last Calibration of Sensors
| Photosynthetically Available Radiation Sensors |
| Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) from in-situ flume experiments to manipulate pCO2 on shallow tropical coral reef communities at UCB Gump Research Station Moorea, French Polynesia in May of 2018 | PAR logger, Dataflow Systems Ltd; Li-Cor LI 192S cosine sensor affixed to Li-Cor LI1400 m.
Cosine-corrected PAR loggers, Dataflow Systems Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand.
| PAR loggers |
| Light data collected from loggers deployed at the Thalassia Experimental Network (TEN) sites in the Western Atlantic from 2018-2019 | Odyssey Submersible PAR light loggers. Light loggers were individually calibrated against a Li-Cor 2pi PAR sensor connected to a Licor.
| Odyssey Submersible PAR light logger |
| Trichodesmium species in the North Atlantic from R/V Oceanus OC469-01 in the NW Atlantic, Woods Hole to Barbados from October 2010 (Trichodesmium project) | Biospherical underwater PAR (1000m depth limit) with reference Surface PAR
| PAR sensor |
| Trichodesmium species in the North Atlantic from R/V Oceanus OC471-01 in the NW Atlantic: Woods Hole to Barbados from April 2011 (Trichodesmium project) | Biospherical underwater PAR (1000m depth limit) with reference Surface PAR
| PAR sensor |
| Underway Data Acquisition System (UDAS) data from R/V Point Sur cruise PS1312 along the Central California coast from June to July of 2013 (Diatom Group Si Prod project) | | Li-Core Model Pyranometer (Radiation) |
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