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Title: Benthic organisms data collected using sediment sampler and net casts from NOAA Ship DELAWARE II and other platforms in the New York Blight from 1957-06-19 to 1978-07-20 (NCEI Accession 8000013)
Abstract: Benthic organisms data were collected using sediment sampler and net casts from NOAA Ship DELAWARE II and other platforms in the New York Blight from 19 June 1957 to 20 July 1978. Data were submitted by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science with support from the MESA - New York Blight project.Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F132 Benthic Organism format. Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/f132.html. An analog file for this accession is available from NODC user services.

The F132 format contains data from field sampling or surveys of bottom dwelling marine organisms. The data provide information on species abundance, distribution, and biomass; they may have been collected by point sampling (grab or core), by tow (dredge, trawl or net), by photographic surveys, or by other methods. Cruise information such as vessel, start and end dates, investigator, and institution/agency; station numbers, positions and times; and equipment and methods are reported for each survey. Environmental data reported at each sampling site may include meteorological and sea surface conditions; surface and bottom temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen; and sediment characteristics. Number of individual organisms and total weight of organisms is reported for each species. A text record is available for comments.
Date received: 19800201
Start date: 19570619
End date: 19780720
Seanames:
West boundary: -75.5
East boundary: -69.2
North boundary: 41.7
South boundary: 36.9
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Instrument types:
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Submitter:
Submitting institution: Virginia Institute of Marine Science
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Number of observations:
Supplementary information: These data files are in NODC F132 format. This format is described at
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/f132.html and the
codes used in this format are listed at
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/f132.txt.

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 data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE - GLOUCESTER POINT
PI: N/A
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: GLOUCESTER POINT
state: VA
postal: 23062
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19800201
Metadata version: 5
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:29:07+00
Editdate: 2020-04-07 22:08:21+00