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OAS accession Detail for 0002196, meta_version: 1. Current meta_version is: 2
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| Title: | Acoustic doppler current meter data collected in support of the Minerals Management Service-supported Deep Water Program in the the Gulf of Mexico, 1999 - 2003 (NODC Accession 0002196) |
| 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: | 20050525 |
| Start date: | 19990901 |
| End date: | 20030801 |
| Seanames: | Gulf of Mexico |
| West boundary: | -96 |
| East boundary: | -85.47 |
| North boundary: | 29.33 |
| South boundary: | 23.47 |
| Observation types: | physical, profile, time series |
| Instrument types: | ADCP, buoy - moored buoy |
| Datatypes: | CURRENT METER - EAST-WEST COMPONENT (U), CURRENT METER - NORTH-SOUTH COMPONENT (V), DEPTH - BOTTOM, DEPTH - SENSOR |
| 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: | FIXED PLATFORM OF UNITED STATES (317F), GYRE (32GY) |
| Number of observations: | 13 |
| Supplementary information: | Investigators: Dr. Gilbert Rowe, Dr. Mahlon C. Kennicutt, Dr. John McEachran, 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: | 1 |
| Keydate: | 2005-05-25 12:59:51+00 |
| Editdate: | 2011-11-23 21:12:10+00 |