Project: Red Sea Krill

Acronym/Short Name:

Red Sea Krill

Start Date:

2014-01

End Date:

2014-06

Geolocation:

Red Sea

Programs:

Unaffiliated

Description

The krill population at station ECDEEP was characterized via MOCNESS sampling and CTD casts.

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Funding

Funding Source	Award Number
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	KAUST-Kaartvedt-2014

Dataset Collections

Dataset Short Name	Full Dataset Title
Krill abundance by species	Krill raw counts and species abundances collected from the R/V Thuwal cruise in the Red Sea during January 2014 (Red Sea Krill project)
Krill abundance by tow	Tow krill raw counts and species abundance collected from the R/V Thuwal cruise in the Red Sea during January 2014
Krill barcodes	Euphausiid DNA barcode metadata and accession numbers collected from cruises in the Red Sea, the western North Atlantic, the Sargasso Sea, the Southeast North Atlantic Ocean, and Arabian Sea (Red Sea Krill project)
MOCNESS tow metadata	Metadata associated with the MOCNESS tows taken in the Red Sea near Economic City (ECDEEP) on the R/V Thuwal cruise during January 2014 (Red Sea Krill project)
MOC_CTD_RedSea	MOCNESS CTD data from the R/V Thuwal cruise in the Red Sea during January 2014 (Red Sea Krill project)
Red Sea CTD	Data from CTD casts on the R/V Thuwal cruise in the Red Sea during January 2014 (Red Sea Krill project)
Thuwal event log	Event log for RV/Thuwal-2014-01 in the Red Sea near Economic City (ECDEEP), Saudi Arabia, January 2014

Deployments

Total: 7

Cruise/Deployment	Platform Type	Start Date	Chief/Co-chief Scientist
TT045	vessel	14 Mar 1995	John F. Marra
Thuwal-2014-01	vessel	07 Jan 2014
RHB0603	vessel	10 Apr 2006	Peter H. Wiebe
OC473	vessel	07 Aug 2011	Gareth Lawson
NH1208	vessel	09 Aug 2012	Gareth Lawson
ANT-XXIV_1	vessel	26 Oct 2007	Sigi Schiel
AKES-2	vessel	19 Feb 2008	Webjørn Melle

Project Coordinators

Person	Roles	Affiliation
Peter H. Wiebe	Scientist	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

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