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Title: Laser In Situ Scattering and Transmissometer Measurements and Supporting Data Collected in Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Incident form April through August 2010, NODC Accession Number 0086284
Abstract: At the request of the United States (U.S.) government and BP plc, research scientists and technicians from the Centre for Offshore Oil Gas and Energy Research (COOGER), Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) conducted at-sea monitoring operations with other scientific experts on board vessels R/V Brooks McCall and R/V Ocean Veritas to assist in a comprehensive environmental monitoring program in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Throughout the period from May 8 to August 24th the DFO COOGER team maintained a continuous monitoring program that recovered a total of 3197 unique water samples from 404 stations at depths down to 2000m for analysis of dispersant effectiveness by characterizing oil droplet size and UV-fluorescence. This collection of data is organized into nine database tables which include all data used by COOGER to conduct analyses. These data include LISST data for in situ deployments; discrete LISST data collected aboard R/V Brooks McCall and R/V Ocean Veritas; UV Fluorescence data collected aboard the R/V Brooks McCall and R/V Ocean Veritas; Hydrocarbon chemistry data; CTD trace data; CTD trace data matched to Niskin bottles; R/V Brooks McCall and R/V Ocean Veritas sampling station data (date, depth, location, and distance from wellhead); and Wellhead data including daily oil flow and recovery, and dispersant application data.
Date received: 20120215
Start date: 20100421
End date: 20100827
Seanames: Gulf of Mexico
West boundary: -89.81364
East boundary: -88.00000833
North boundary: 28.828752
South boundary: 26.884427
Observation types: physical
Instrument types: CTD, Laser In-Situ Scattering and Transmissometer (LISST), transmissometer
Datatypes: DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, HYDROCARBONS - TOTAL RESOLVED, TEMPERATURE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Oceanographic Data Center
Collecting institutions: Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Contributing projects:
Platforms: Brooks McCall (33TC), OCEAN VERITAS (33WV)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: The database contains 9 tables which include: (1) Chem_Data – Hydrocarbon chemistry data. All units converted to µg/l; (2) CTD – Complete CTD trace data; (3) CTD_Bottle – CTD trace data matched to Niskin bottles based on date, time, and depth; (4) LISST_InSitu – LISST data for in situ deployments May 10, 11, 15, and 17, 2010; (5) LISST_R/V_Brooks_McCall – Discrete LISST data collected aboard R/V Brooks McCall; (6) LISST_R/V_Ocean_Veritas – Discrete LISST data collected aboard R/V Ocean Veritas; (7) Station_SpatialData – Date, depth, location, and distance from wellhead (calculated using Arc GIS 9.3) data for each R/V Brooks McCall and R/V Ocean Veritas sampling station; (8) UV_Fluorescence – UV Fluorescence data collected aboard the R/V Brooks McCall and R/V Ocean Veritas. Raw fluorescence units; and (9) Wellhead_Daily - Daily oil flow and recovery, and dispersant application data. Column names for LISST data tables are FileName, ScanNo, 1:32, LaserTransSensor, BattVolt, AuxIn1, LaserRefSensor, Pressure, TempDegC, DayHour, and MinSec. Descriptions can be found in the document described below.

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response Dataset, Centre for Offshore Oil Gas and Environmental Research (COOGER), Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) Canada
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Metadata version: 3
Keydate: 2012-03-06 15:01:21+00
Editdate: 2012-03-15 16:58:14+00