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OAS accession Detail for 8400043
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| Title: | Benthic organisms collected using sediment sampler from the EXCELLENCE and other platforms in the Gulf of Mexico from 1981-12-09 to 1985-08-26 (NCEI Accession 8400043) |
| Abstract: | Benthic organisms were collected using sediment sampler casts from the EXCELLENCE and other platforms in the Gulf of Mexico from 09 December 1981 to 26 August 1985. Data were submitted by the Texas A&M University with support from the Brine Disposal project. 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: | 19820209 |
| Start date: | 19801209 |
| End date: | 19850826 |
| Seanames: | Gulf of Mexico |
| West boundary: | -95.31 |
| East boundary: | -93.3 |
| North boundary: | 30.06 |
| South boundary: | 28.69 |
| Observation types: | benthic, biological, laboratory analyses, meteorological, profile, site samples, surface measurements, survey, survey - biological, tows, trawl |
| Instrument types: | current meter, hydrometer, laboratory analysis, meteorological sensor, net, salinometer, sediment sampler - corer, sediment sampler - grab, thermometer, tide gauge, visual analysis |
| Datatypes: | BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, BENTHIC SPECIES, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - AGE, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - FIN ROT, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - LENGTH, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - WEIGHT, MEIOFAUNA, OXYGEN, SALINITY, SALINITY - BOTTOM WATER, SALINITY - SURFACE WATER, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, SEDIMENTS - PARTICLE SIZE FRACTIONS, SEDIMENTS - PERCENT COVER, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - ASH-FREE WEIGHT, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - COUNT, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - WET WEIGHT, WATER TEMPERATURE |
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| Submitting institution: | Texas A&M University |
| Collecting institutions: | Texas A&M University |
| Contributing projects: | BRINE DISPOSAL |
| Platforms: | CAPT JACK (32J2), EXCELLENCE (32L7), QUEST (32JQ) |
| Number of observations: | |
| Supplementary information: | These data files are in NODC F132 format. Full format and format code descriptions are available at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-datafmts.html. 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. To develop more accurate metadata, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis. Points of contact for this dataset include: Contact info: Agency: TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY PI: N/A Address: address: NOT AVAILABLE city: COLLEGE STATION state: TX postal: 77843-3146 country: UNITED STATES In this accession, NCEI has archived multiple versions of these data. The latest (and best) version of these data has the largest version number. |
| Availability date: | 19840209 |
| Metadata version: | 10 |
| Keydate: | 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00 |
| Editdate: | 2024-02-18 17:38:30+00 |