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OAS accession Detail for 0002192
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| Title: | A survey to characterize the principal components of benthic communities over the entire northern Gulf of Mexico from 1999 to 2002 (NODC Accession 0002192) |
| Abstract: | A research program has been initiated by the Minerals Management Service (Contract No. 1435-01-99-CT-30991) to gain better knowledge of the benthic communities of the deep Gulf of Mexico entitled "The Deepwater Program: Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Habitat and Benthic Ecology." Increasing exploration and exploitation of fossil hydrocarbon resources in the deep-sea prompted the Minerals Management Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior to support an investigation of the structure and function of the assemblages of organisms that live in association with the sea floor in the deep-sea. The program, Deep Gulf of Mexico Benthos or DGoMB, is studying the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) continental slope from water depths of 300 meters on the upper continental slope out to greater than 3,000 meters water depth seaward of the base of the Sigsbee and Florida Escarpments. The study is focused on areas that are the most likely targets of future resource exploration and exploitation. |
| Date received: | 20050523 |
| Start date: | 19990901 |
| End date: | 20020825 |
| Seanames: | Gulf of Mexico |
| West boundary: | -96.01 |
| East boundary: | -85.47 |
| North boundary: | 29.38 |
| South boundary: | 23.49 |
| Observation types: | benthic, biological, physical, profile |
| Instrument types: | bottle, corer, fluorometer, transmissometer, trawl |
| Datatypes: | AMMONIA (NH3), AMPHIPODA, APLACOPHORA, bacteria, BIVALVES, CHLOROPHYLL, CONDUCTIVITY, FISH SPECIES, FLUORESCENCE, FORAMINIFERA, HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, IRON - SOLUBLE REACTIVE, MANGANESE, NITRATE, NITRITE, NITROGEN - PARTICULATE, OXYGEN, PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON, phosphate, PIGMENTS, SALINITY, silicate, TRANSMISSIVITY, UREA |
| Submitter: | Wolff, Dr. Gary A. |
| Submitting institution: | Texas A&M University; College Station |
| Collecting institutions: | Texas A&M University; College Station |
| Contributing projects: | Deepwater Program: Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Habitats and Benthic Ecology |
| Platforms: | GYRE (32GY) |
| Number of observations: | 3989 |
| Supplementary information: | Investigators: Dr. Gilbert Rowe, Dr. Mahlon C. Kennicutt, Dr. Bob J. Presley, Dr. Gary A. Wolff, Dr. Joan Bernhard, et. al. The data file format description is included in the "Entity and Attributes" section of the associated FGDC description for each data file (located in subdirectory: data/0-data/meta). |
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| Metadata version: | 2 |
| Keydate: | 2005-05-24 12:53:30+00 |
| Editdate: | 2013-10-16 16:41:50+00 |