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Title: Physical, chemical, phytoplankton, marine toxin, and other data from bottle casts and bottom grabs from NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV and other platforms as part of the North East Monitoring Program and other projects from 1977-02-12 to 1981-08-10 (NCEI Accession 8500078)
Abstract: Physical, chemical, phytoplankton, marine toxin, and other data from bottle casts and bottom grabs from NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV and other platforms from 12 February 1977 to 10 August 1981. Data were collected by the Fish and Wildlife Service - Eastern Pennsylvania Region (FWS) and other institutions as part of the North East Monitoring Program and other projects. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F004 Water Physics and Chemistry format, the F028 Phytoplankton, and the F144 Marine Toxic Substances and Pollutants format.

The F004 format is used for data from measurements and analyses of physical and chemical characteristics of the water column. Among chemical parameters that may be recorded are salinity, pH, and concentration of oxygen, ammonia, nitrate, phosphate, chlorophyll, and suspended solids. Physical parameters that may be recorded include temperature, density (sigma-t), transmissivity, and current velocity (east-west and north-south components). Cruise and station information, including environmental conditions of the study site at the time of observations, is also included.

This F028 format is used for data from the sampling and analysis of marine phytoplankton. Information on phytoplankton abundance, distribution, and productivity derived from these data support studies of marine populations and ecosystems. Data reported may include: position, date, and time of sampling; bottom depth and sampling depths; volume of water filtered; and concentration of cells, carbon concentration, wet and dry weight, and counts for each species reported. Comments may be relayed in a text record.

The F144 format contains data on ambient concentrations of toxic substances and other pollutants in the marine environment. The data derive from laboratory analyses of samples of water, sediment, or marine organisms. Samples may have been collected near marine discharge sites or during ocean monitoring surveys of large areas. Field observations of tar deposits on beaches may also be reported. Survey information includes platform type, start and end dates, and investigator and institution. If data are collected near a discharge site, discharge location, depth, distance to shore, average volume, and other characteristics are reported. Position, date, time and environmental conditions are reported for each sample station. Environmental data may include meteorological and sea surface conditions, tide stage and height, depth of the thermocline or mixed layer surface temperature and salinity, and wave height and periods. Sample characteristics, collection methods, and laboratory techniques are reported for each sample collected and analyzed. The data record comprises concentration values (or a code to indicate trace amounts) for each chemical substance analyzed. Chemical substances are identified by codes based on the registry numbers assigned by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) of the American Chemical Society. Marine organisms from which samples have been taken are identified using the 12-digit NODC Taxonomic Code. A text record is available for optional comments.
Date received: 19850118
Start date: 19770212
End date: 19810810
Seanames:
West boundary: -122.432778
East boundary: -66.033333
North boundary: 48.3
South boundary: 30.138333
Observation types:
Instrument types:
Datatypes:
Submitter:
Submitting institution: US DOI; Fish and Wildlife Service - Eastern Pennsylvania Region
Collecting institutions:
Contributing projects:
Platforms:
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: The publication(s) listed below are related to the data collection and are available from the NOAA Central Library:

W. Redwood Wright, 1983 Nantucket Shoals Flux Experiment Data Report 1: Hydrography. Woods Hole, Mass. : U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Center ; Springfield, Va. : Available from the National Technical Information Service, 1983.

Draft interim analytical methods manual for the ocean disposal permit program. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, [1974].

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: US DOI; FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE - EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA REGION
PI: N/A
Address:
address: 300 WATERGATE CENTER DRIVE
city: HADLEY
state: MA
postal: 01035-9589
country: UNITED STATES
Contact info:
Agency: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTION; PACIFIC NORTHWEST LABORATORY
PI: 417
Address:
address: 429 WEST SEQUIM BAY ROAD
city: SEQUIM
state: WA
postal: 98382
country: UNITED STATES
Contact info:
Agency: US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY - TRIANGLE PARK
Address:
address: METEOROLOGY AND ASSESSMENT DIVISION
city: TRIANGE PARK
state: NC
postal: 27711
country: UNITED STATES
Contact info:
Agency: ENERGY RESOURCES CO. INC.
PI: 283
Address:
address: 185 ALEWIFE BROOK PARKWAY
city: CAMBRIDGE
state: MA
postal: 02138
country: UNITED STATES
Contact info:
Agency: BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY
PI: 521
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: UPTON
state: NY
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
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: 19850118
Metadata version: 18
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2023-10-31 21:35:32+00