Kenneth O. Buesseler

Synonyms:

Ken

Affiliation:

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

Address:

266 Woods Hole Road
MS #25
Woods Hole, MA
USA 02543

ORCiD:

0000-0001-7362-8796

Activities reported for Kenneth O. Buesseler:

Program coordination

U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study ([U.S. JGOFS])

Lead Principal Investigator

Project coordination

VERtical Transport In the Global Ocean (VERTIGO)	Lead Principal Investigator, Contact
Southern Ocean Iron Experiment (SOFeX)	Co-Principal Investigator
Twilight Zone EXplorer (TZEX)	Lead Principal Investigator
Sources of Iron to the EasterN tropical Atlantic (SIRENA)	Co-Principal Investigator
Establishing Radionuclide Levels in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Originating from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Facility (Fukushima Radionuclide Levels)	Lead Principal Investigator
Rapid, Autonomous Particle Flux Observations in the Oligotrophic Ocean (RapAutParticleFlux)	Co-Principal Investigator
US GEOTRACES Pacific Zonal Transect: Rates of supply, removal and internal cycling of trace elements and isotopes (EPZT TEI Rates)	Principal Investigator, Contact
Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Radium and Thorium Isotopes as Natural Geochemical Tracers in the Arctic Ocean (Arctic GEOTRACES Ra Th)	Co-Principal Investigator
Collaborative Research: Are all traps created equal? A multi-method assessment of the collection and detection of sinking particles in the ocean (Are Traps Equal)	Lead Principal Investigator
Quantifying Upper Ocean Export and Remineralization of Bioactive and Particle Reactive Trace Elements along the US GEOTRACES Tahiti to Alaska Transect (PMT Upper Ocean Trace Elements)	Principal Investigator, Contact

Deployment coordination

Deployment	Synonyms	Platform	Role
AE0922		Atlantic Explorer	Chief Scientist
KM0414	ALOHA	Kilo Moana	Chief Scientist
KOK1108	Fukushima KOK	Ka`imikai-O-Kanaloa	Chief Scientist
NBP1002		Nathaniel B. Palmer	Co-Chief Scientist
PS02_2002	PS_2002_SOFeX	Polar Star	Chief Scientist
ZHNG09RR	RR_K2	Roger Revelle	Chief Scientist

Datasets

Project: Quantifying Upper Ocean Export and Remineralization of Bioactive and Particle Reactive Trace Elements along the US GEOTRACES Tahiti to Alaska Transect

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Water column total and particulate Thorium-234 from Leg 2 (Hilo, HI to Papeete, French Polynesia) of the US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect (PMT) cruise (GP15, RR1815) on R/V Roger Revelle from October to November 2018 Principal Investigator	2021-05-05	Final no updates expected
Water column total and particulate Thorium-234 from Leg 1 (Seattle, WA to Hilo, HI) of the US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect (PMT) cruise (GP15, RR1814) on R/V Roger Revelle from September to October 2018 Principal Investigator	2021-05-05	Final no updates expected

Project: Collaborative Research: Are all traps created equal? A multi-method assessment of the collection and detection of sinking particles in the ocean

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Water column Th-234 activities from 4-liter water samples at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) site in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean during RRS Discovery cruise DY077 in April of 2017 Principal Investigator	2019-05-02	Final no updates expected
TPC, PIC, POC, TPN, and Th-234 from in-situ pumps at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) site in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean during RRS Discovery cruise DY077 in April of 2017 Principal Investigator	2019-06-26	Final no updates expected
Carbon, Nitrogen, biogenic silica, thorium-234, and mass fluxes from upper ocean sediment traps at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) site in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean during RRS Discovery cruise DY077 in April of 2017 Co-Principal Investigator	2019-06-26	Final no updates expected

Project: Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Radium and Thorium Isotopes as Natural Geochemical Tracers in the Arctic Ocean

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Activities of size-fractionated particulate thorium isotopes and total Thorium-234 from the U.S. GEOTRACES Arctic cruise, HLY1502, on USCGC Healy from August to October 2015 Principal Investigator	2020-10-12	Final no updates expected

Project: US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect (GP15)

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Water column total and particulate Thorium-234 from Leg 2 (Hilo, HI to Papeete, French Polynesia) of the US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect (PMT) cruise (GP15, RR1815) on R/V Roger Revelle from October to November 2018 Principal Investigator	2021-05-05	Final no updates expected
Water column total and particulate Thorium-234 from Leg 1 (Seattle, WA to Hilo, HI) of the US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect (PMT) cruise (GP15, RR1814) on R/V Roger Revelle from September to October 2018 Principal Investigator	2021-05-05	Final no updates expected

Project: US GEOTRACES Pacific Zonal Transect: Rates of supply, removal and internal cycling of trace elements and isotopes

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Particulate Th-234 from in-situ pumps, including large size fraction (> 51 um) and small size fraction (1-51 um), from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TN303 in the Eastern Tropical Pacific in 2013 (U.S. GEOTRACES EPZT project) Principal Investigator	2020-06-11	Final no updates expected
Water-column total Th-234 from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TN303 in the Eastern Tropical Pacific in 2013 (U.S. GEOTRACES EPZT project) Principal Investigator	2020-06-11	Final no updates expected

Project: Rapid, Autonomous Particle Flux Observations in the Oligotrophic Ocean

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Sediment trap gel images of settled particles that were collected from the Sargasso Sea between 2013 and 2014. Co-Principal Investigator	2018-04-17	Final no updates expected
Carbon and nitrogen flux measurements from the Sargasso Sea from 2013-2014. Co-Principal Investigator	2018-04-17	Final no updates expected
Factory and field calibration data for float oxygen, beam transmission, backscatter, chlorophyll fluorescence and CDOM sensors from the Sargasso Sea from 2013-2014. Co-Principal Investigator	2018-04-17	Final no updates expected
Profiling float surface dates, times and locations from the Sargasso Sea from 2013 to 2014. Co-Principal Investigator	2018-04-17	Final no updates expected
Float profile data collected during surface ascents in the Sargasso Sea from 2013-2014. Co-Principal Investigator	2018-04-17	Final no updates expected
Float park phase data collected at depth in the Sargasso Sea from 2013-2014. Co-Principal Investigator	2018-04-17	Final no updates expected

Project: U.S. Arctic GEOTRACES Study (GN01)

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Activities of size-fractionated particulate thorium isotopes and total Thorium-234 from the U.S. GEOTRACES Arctic cruise, HLY1502, on USCGC Healy from August to October 2015 Principal Investigator	2020-10-12	Final no updates expected

Project: U.S. GEOTRACES East Pacific Zonal Transect (GP16)

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Particulate Th-234 from in-situ pumps, including large size fraction (> 51 um) and small size fraction (1-51 um), from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TN303 in the Eastern Tropical Pacific in 2013 (U.S. GEOTRACES EPZT project) Principal Investigator	2020-06-11	Final no updates expected
Water-column total Th-234 from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TN303 in the Eastern Tropical Pacific in 2013 (U.S. GEOTRACES EPZT project) Principal Investigator	2020-06-11	Final no updates expected

Project: Possible climate-induced change in the distribution of Pleuragramma antarcticum on the Western Antarctic Peninsula Shelf

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Event log from RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer NBP1002 in the Western Antarctic Peninsula from March to May 2010 ( Antarctic_micronek project) Co-Chief Scientist	2014-01-24	Final no updates expected

Project: Establishing Radionuclide Levels in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Originating from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Facility

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Iodine 129 levels from R/V Ka`imikai-O-Kanaloa KOK1108 from June 2011 (Fukushima Radionuclide Levels project) Co-Principal Investigator	2017-09-29	Final no updates expected
Cruise track from underway data from the R/V MIRAI MR11-06 cruise in the Western equatorial Pacific and Kuroshio Extension region (Fukushima Radionuclide Levels project) Chief Scientist	2012-08-10	Final no updates expected
Hydrocast isotope concentrations of Cesium 137 and 134 from the R/V Ka`imikai-O-Kanaloa KOK1108 cruise in June 2011 in the Northwest Pacific Ocean (Fukushima Radionuclide Levels project) Principal Investigator	2012-12-18	Final no updates expected
Surface and hydrocast Cesium isotopes 137 and 134 concentrations from the R/V Ka`imikai-O-Kanaloa KOK1108 cruise in June 2011 in the Northwest Pacific Ocean (Fukushima Radionuclide Levels project) Principal Investigator	2012-12-17	Final with updates expected
Calibrated CTD salinity and oxygen and Niskin bottle water samples from the R/V Ka'imikai-o-Kanaloa KOK1108 cruise in June 2011 in the Northwest Pacific Ocean (Fukushima Radionuclide Levels project) Principal Investigator	2011-10-20	Final no updates expected
Scientific sampling event log from the R/V Ka`imikai-O-Kanaloa KOK1108 cruise (Fukushima Radionuclide Levels project) Chief Scientist	2012-07-24	Final with updates expected

Project: U.S. GEOTRACES North Atlantic Transect (GA03)

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Water-column total Thorium-234 and Uranium-238 from R/V Knorr cruises KN199-04 and KN204-01 in the Subtropical northern Atlantic Ocean from 2010-2011 (U.S. GEOTRACES NAT project) Principal Investigator	2013-03-25	Final no updates expected
Particulate Thorium-234 from in situ pumps from R/V Knorr cruises KN199-04 and KN204-01 in the Subtropical northern Atlantic Ocean from 2010-2011 (U.S. GEOTRACES NAT project) Principal Investigator	2013-03-06	Final no updates expected

Project: Sources of Iron to the EasterN tropical Atlantic

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Station log from R/V Islandia, R/V Oceanus ISL0109, OC449-02, OC449-03 in the Eastern Atlantic and Indian oceans and TENATSO (Tropical Eastern North Atlantic Time-Series Observatory) time series station from 2008 to 2009 (SIRENA project) Co-Principal Investigator	2011-05-03	Preliminary and in progress

Project: Twilight Zone EXplorer

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
CTD stations from the R/V Atlantic Explorer AE0922 in the North Atlantic, Bermuda BATS region during 2009 (TZEX project) Principal Investigator	2011-03-30	Final no updates expected
Preliminary bottle data from the R/V Atlantic Explorer AE0922 cruise in the North Atlantic, Bermuda BATS region during 2009 (TZEX project) Principal Investigator	2011-03-28	Preliminary and in progress
Cruise event log from the R/V Atlantic Explorer AE0922 cruise in the North Atlantic, Bermuda BATS region during 2009 (TZEX project) Principal Investigator	2011-03-28	Final no updates expected

Project: U.S. JGOFS Synthesis and Modeling

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Global estimates of Thorium 234 based particulate organic carbon export, 2004 (U.S. JGOFS Synthesis & Modeling Phase project results) Co-Principal Investigator	2004-05-10	Final no updates expected

Project: VERtical Transport In the Global Ocean

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Sampling location map from R/V Kilo Moana, R/V Roger Revelle cruises KM0414, ZHNG09RR from the Hawaiian Islands HOT Site, NW SubArctic Pacific Ocean K2 Site, 2004-2005 (VERTIGO project) Chief Scientist	2008-07-03	Final no updates expected
Cruise plan matrix for VERTIGO cruises from R/V Kilo Moana, R/V Roger Revelle cruises KM0414, ZHNG09RR from the Hawaiian Islands HOT Site, NW SubArctic Pacific Ocean K2 Site, 2004-2005 (VERTIGO project) Chief Scientist	2008-07-03	Final no updates expected
Niskin bottle basic hydrographic data, thorium-234, pigments and nutrients from VERTIGO cruises KM0414, ZHNG09RR from the Hawaiian Islands HOT Site, NW SubArctic Pacific Ocean K2 Site, 2004-2005 (VERTIGO project) Principal Investigator	2008-12-08	Final no updates expected
Cruise event log from R/V Kilo Moana, R/V Roger Revelle cruises KM0414, ZHNG09RR from the Hawaiian Islands HOT Site, NW SubArctic Pacific Ocean K2 Site, 2004-2005 (VERTIGO project) Principal Investigator	2006-09-05	Final no updates expected
Sediment trap fluxes of mass, elements and phytoplankton pigments from VERTIGO cruises KM0414, ZHNG09RR from the Hawaiian Islands HOT Site, NW SubArctic Pacific Ocean K2 Site, 2004-2005 (VERTIGO project) Co-Principal Investigator	2009-02-06	Final no updates expected
VERTIGO cruise data inventory of expected VERTIGO data from cruises KM0414, ZHNG09RR from the Hawaiian Islands HOT Site, NW SubArctic Pacific Ocean K2 Site, 2004-2005 (VERTIGO project) Chief Scientist, Principal Investigator	2009-02-24	Final no updates expected

Project: Eddies Dynamics, Mixing, Export, and Species composition

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Sediment trap flux data with Thorium-234 from R/V Weatherbird II WB0409, WB0413, WB0506, WB0508 cruises in the Sargasso Sea, 2004-2005 (EDDIES project) Principal Investigator	2008-07-11	Final no updates expected
Large volume pump particulate data: 234Th, POC, PON, Si from R/V Weatherbird II WB0409, WB0413, WB0506, WB0508 cruises in the Sargasso Sea, 2004-2005 (EDDIES project) Principal Investigator	2008-07-14	Final no updates expected
Thorium-234 and Uranium-238 from Niskin bottle samples from R/V Weatherbird II WB0409, WB0413, WB0506, WB0508 cruises in the Sargasso Sea, 2004-2005 (EDDIES project) Principal Investigator	2008-07-14	Final no updates expected

Project: Southern Ocean Iron Experiment

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Thorium-234 and Uranium-238 from R/V Melville, USCGC Polar Star cruises COOK19MV, PS02_2002 from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project) Principal Investigator	2007-05-04	Final no updates expected
Thorium 234, POC and biogenic silica from R/V Melville, USCGC Polar Star cruises COOK19MV, PS02_2002 from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project) Principal Investigator	2007-04-18	Final no updates expected
SOFeX Cruise Data Inventory from R/V Melville, R/V Roger Revelle, USCGC Polar Star cruises COOK19MV, DRFT08RR, PS02_2002 from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project) Chief Scientist	2006-02-06	Final no updates expected
SOFeX project CTD profile data from R/V Melville, R/V Roger Revelle, USCGC Polar Star cruises COOK19MV, DRFT08RR, PS02_2002 from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project) Principal Investigator	2007-02-01	Final no updates expected
Ship activity schedule PDF from USCGC Polar Star, R/V Roger Revelle, R/V Melville cruises PS02_2002, DRFT08RR, COOK19MV from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand, Southern Ocean in 2002 (SOFeX project) Chief Scientist	2002-03-08	Final no updates expected
Carbon and nitrogen concentration from filtered in situ LVP pump samples from SOFeX cruises PS02_2002, COOK19MV from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand, Southern Ocean in 2002 (SOFeX project) Principal Investigator, Contact	2007-05-04	Final no updates expected
Salinity, SF6 and chlorophyll-a from bottle cast samples from USCGC Polar Star cruise PS02_2002 from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project) Principal Investigator	2007-02-27	Final no updates expected
Polar Star bottle salts for CTD conductivity sensor calibration from USCGC Polar Star cruise PS02_2002 from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project) Principal Investigator	2007-02-08	Final no updates expected
SOFeX cruise narrative from USCGC Polar Star, R/V Melville, R/V Roger Revelle cruises PS02_2002, COOK19MV, DRFT08RR from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand, Southern Ocean in 2002 (SOFeX project) Principal Investigator	2007-02-08	Final no updates expected
CTD profile data from Polar Star Transect 1 from USCGC Polar Star cruise PS02_2002 from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project) Principal Investigator	2007-05-01	Final no updates expected
SOFeX Polar Star XBT temperature profiles from USCGC Polar Star cruise PS02_2002 from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project) Principal Investigator	2007-03-05	Final no updates expected
SOFeX Polar Star Cruise sampling event log from USCGC Polar Star cruise PS02_2002 from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project) Chief Scientist, Principal Investigator	2007-04-30	Final no updates expected
SeaBird SeaCat SBE-19 CTD profiler data from bottle casts (BC) from USCGC Polar Star cruise PS02_2002 in the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project) Principal Investigator	2007-05-01	Final no updates expected
Combined water sample data from variety of sampling devices from USCGC Polar Star cruise PS02_2002 in the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project) Principal Investigator	2007-02-27	Final no updates expected

Project: U.S. JGOFS Antarctic Environment and Southern Ocean Process Study

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Th-234 in particulate and dissolved phases; POC/PON from RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer and R/V Roger Revelle cruises in the Southern Ocean, 1997-1998 (U.S. JGOFS AESOPS project) Principal Investigator	1999-12-13	Final no updates expected
Derived carbon flux data tables from RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer and R/V Roger Revelle cruises in the Southern Ocean in 1997 (U.S. JGOFS AESOPS project) Principal Investigator	1999-11-24	Final no updates expected

Project: U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Th-234 in particulate and dissolved phases; POC/PON from R/V Thomas G. Thompson TT043, TT045, TT049, TT050 cruises in the Arabian Sea in 1995 (U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea project) Principal Investigator	1999-01-04	Final no updates expected

Project: U.S. JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Thorium 234 activity in particulate and dissolved phases from R/V Atlantis II cruises AII-119-4, AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project) Principal Investigator	2002-11-07	Final no updates expected

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