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Title: Intertidal organism and habitat data from the Beaufort Sea from aircraft as part of Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) from 1976-07-17 to 1976-08-30 (NCEI Accession 7800562)
Abstract: Intertidal organism and habitat data were collected in the Beaufort Sea from aircraft as part of Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP). Data were collected by Western Washington University (WWU) from 17 July 1976 to 30 August 1976. Data were processed by NODC to NODC standard F030 Intertidal Organism and Habitat format. An analog file for this accession is available.

The F030 format is used for data from field sampling of marine organisms in intertidal or subtidal habitats. The data are collected to provide information about species abundance and distribution. Data from each observation may include: cruise and station information such as vessel name, senior scientist, position, date, and time; environmental conditions such as surface temperature and salinity, wind speed and direction, and sea state; sediment and habitat descriptors; and species identification and organism counts and measurements. Data may be reported for either individual or composite samples. A text record is available for reporting comments.
Date received: 19780719
Start date: 19760717
End date: 19760830
Seanames: Beaufort Sea
West boundary: -156.680556
East boundary: -142.3
North boundary: 71.375
South boundary: 69.883333
Observation types: benthic, biological, survey - biological
Instrument types: laboratory analysis, meteorological sensor, net, photograph, pH sensor, refractometer, Secchi disk, sediment sampler - grab, trawl
Datatypes: DISSOLVED OXYGEN, HABITAT - SEDIMENT SIZE, HABITAT - SURFACE ORGANICS, HABITAT - WAVE ENERGY, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - AGE, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - FIN ROT, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - LENGTH, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - PARASITE OCCURRENCE, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - SEX, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - SEXUAL MATURITY, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - TUMOR COUNT, LIGHT INTENSITY, OXYGEN, PLANT COVER, SALINITY, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, SEDIMENTS - DRY WEIGHT, SEDIMENTS - PARTICLE SIZE FRACTIONS, SEDIMENTS - WEIGHT PERCENT SHELL FRAGMENTS, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - COUNT, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - DRY WEIGHT, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - LIFE HISTORY, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - SUBSPECIES, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - WET WEIGHT, STOMACH CONTENTS, STOMACH CONTENTS - CONTENT WEIGHT, STOMACH CONTENTS - DIGESTION, STOMACH CONTENTS - FULLNESS, STOMACH CONTENTS - PREY COUNT, STOMACH CONTENTS - PREY TAXONOMY, STOMACH CONTENTS - PREY WET WEIGHT, TAXONOMIC CODE, TIDE HEIGHT, TIDE STAGE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: Western Washington University
Collecting institutions: Western Washington University
Contributing projects: OCSEAP
Platforms: AIRCRAFT (3191)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Note: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM).

Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information accurately represents all available information from the legacy database at the time that this description was created. However, proper attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description.

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Points of contact for this dataset include:
Contact info:
Agency: WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
PI: N/A
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: BELLINGHAM POINT
state: WA
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19780719
Metadata version: 12
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:27:44+00
Editdate: 2024-02-18 17:05:58+00