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Title: Benthic organism collected using sediment sampler, BT, and bottle casts from the EASTWARD and other platforms in Georges' Bank from 10 July 1981 to 08 June 1983 (NODC Accession 8500125)
Abstract: Benthic organism were collected using sediment sampler, BT, and bottle casts from the EASTWARD and other platforms in the Georges' Bank from 10 July 1981 to 08 June 1984. Data were submitted by the Battelle Marine Research Laboratory in New England with support from Ocean Continental Shelf - Georges' Bank 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: 19850523
Start date: 19810710
End date: 19840608
Seanames:
West boundary: -71
East boundary: -66.8
North boundary: 42
South boundary: 40.4
Observation types:
Instrument types:
Datatypes:
Submitter:
Submitting institution: Battelle Ocean Sciences Laboratory - New England
Collecting institutions:
Contributing projects:
Platforms:
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.

To develop more accurate metadata, the NODC reviews metadata for all
accessions on an ongoing basis.


Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: BATTELLE MARINE RESEARCH LABORATORY - NEW ENGLAND
PI: N/A
Address:
address: 397 WASHINGTON STREET
city: DUXBURY
state: MA
postal: 02332
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19850523
Metadata version: 3
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:35:26+00
Editdate: 2013-10-17 12:08:16+00