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Grid DAP Data	Sub- set	Table DAP Data	Make A Graph	W M S	Source Data Files	Acces- sible	Title	Sum- mary	FGDC, ISO, Metadata	Back- ground Info	RSS	E mail	Institution	Dataset ID
		data	graph		files	public	[sediment trap flux] - Sediment trap flux collected from R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises AE1102, AE1118, AE1206, AE1219 in the Sargasso Sea, Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Station from 2011-2012 (Trophic BATS project) (Plankton Community Composition and Trophic Interactions as Modifiers of Carbon Export in the Sargasso Sea )		F   I   M	background			BCO-DMO	bcodmo_dataset_3935

The Dataset's Variables and Attributes

Row Type	Variable Name	Attribute Name	Data Type	Value
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	access_formats	String	.htmlTable,.csv,.json,.mat,.nc,.tsv,.esriCsv,.geoJson
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	acquisition_description	String	Samples for particles flux measurements were obtained using free-drifting cylindrical traps (MultiPITs) deployed at 150, 200, and 300 meters depth. Sinking fluxes of C, N, and P were calculated from the elemental mass of material captured in the sediment trap, its collection surface area and deployment length. Detailed methods for all data collected as part of this study can be found in the publications arising from this study (references given below). Sample QA/QC procedures followed those given in the associated manuscripts. Sample accuracy was assessed by using certified standards, for those measurements where standards are available. Certified standards were run with each analytical run and compared to long term control charts for respective analyses. Detailed information on analyses: Lomas, M.W., Burke, A., Lomas, D.A., Bell, D.W., Shen, C., Ammerman, J.W., Dyhrman, S.T. 2010.\u00a0 Sargasso Sea phosphorus biogeochemistry: An important role for dissolved organic phosphorus (DOP). Biogeosciences 7: 695-710. doi: [10.5194/bg-7-695-2010](\\"https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-7-695-2010\\") Lomas, M.W., Bates, N.R., Johnson, R.J., Knap, A.H., Steinberg, D.K., Carlson, C.A. 2013. Two decades and counting: overview of 24-years of sustained open ocean biogeochemical measurements. Deep Sea Research II doi: [10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.01.008](\\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.01.008\\").
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_award_nid	String	54810
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_award_number	String	OCE-1030149
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_data_url	String	http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1030149
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_funder_name	String	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_funding_acronym	String	NSF OCE
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_funding_source_nid	String	355
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_program_manager	String	David L. Garrison
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_program_manager_nid	String	50534
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	cdm_data_type	String	Other
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	comment	String	Sediment Trap Flux data collected on Trophic BATS cruises Project: Trophic BATS Dataset PI: Michael Lomas (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences) Version: 01 May 2013
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	Conventions	String	COARDS, CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	creator_email	String	info at bco-dmo.org
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	creator_name	String	BCO-DMO
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	creator_type	String	institution
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	creator_url	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	data_source	String	extract_data_as_tsv version 2.3 19 Dec 2019
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	date_created	String	2013-05-01T17:26:04Z
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	date_modified	String	2019-11-06T14:53:10Z
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	defaultDataQuery	String	&time<now
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	doi	String	10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.3935.1
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	Easternmost_Easting	double	-63.5012
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lat_max	double	33.46986667
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lat_min	double	29.5879
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lat_units	String	degrees_north
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lon_max	double	-63.5012
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lon_min	double	-65.77848
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lon_units	String	degrees_east
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_vertical_max	double	300.0
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_vertical_min	double	150.0
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_vertical_positive	String	down
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_vertical_units	String	m
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	infoUrl	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/3935
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	institution	String	BCO-DMO
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	instruments_0_acronym	String	Sed Trap - Part Int
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	instruments_0_dataset_instrument_nid	String	6160
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	instruments_0_description	String	A Particle Interceptor Trap is a prototype sediment trap designed in the mid 1990s to segregate 'swimmers' from sinking particulate material sampled from the water column. The prototype trap used 'segregation plates' to deflect and segregate 'swimmers' while a series of funnels collected sinking particles in a chamber (see Dennis A. Hansell and Jan A. Newton. September 1994. Design and Evaluation of a "Swimmer"-Segregating Particle Interceptor Trap, Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 1487-1495).
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	instruments_0_instrument_external_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/33/
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	instruments_0_instrument_name	String	Sediment Trap - Particle Interceptor
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	instruments_0_instrument_nid	String	550
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	instruments_0_supplied_name	String	Sediment Trap - Particle Interceptor
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	keywords	String	bco, bco-dmo, biological, chemical, cruise, cruise_id, data, dataset, date, day, deployment, deployment_no, depth, dmo, erddap, flux, latitude, longitude, management, mass, mass_flux, month, oceanography, office, particulate, particulate_P_flux, poc, POC_flux, pon, PON_flux, preliminary, year
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	license	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/3935/license
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	metadata_source	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/api/dataset/3935
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	Northernmost_Northing	double	33.46986667
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	param_mapping	String	{'3935': {'lat': 'flag - latitude', 'depth': 'flag - depth', 'lon': 'flag - longitude'}}
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	parameter_source	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/mapserver/dataset/3935/parameters
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_affiliation	String	Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_person_name	String	Michael W. Lomas
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_person_nid	String	50776
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_role	String	Principal Investigator
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_role_type	String	originator
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_affiliation	String	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_affiliation_acronym	String	WHOI BCO-DMO
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_person_name	String	Shannon Rauch
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_person_nid	String	51498
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_role	String	BCO-DMO Data Manager
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_role_type	String	related
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	project	String	Trophic BATS
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_acronym	String	Trophic BATS
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_description	String	Fluxes of particulate carbon from the surface ocean are greatly influenced by the size, taxonomic composition and trophic interactions of the resident planktonic community. Large and/or heavily-ballasted phytoplankton such as diatoms and coccolithophores are key contributors to carbon export due to their high sinking rates and direct routes of export through large zooplankton. The potential contributions of small, unballasted phytoplankton, through aggregation and/or trophic re-packaging, have been recognized more recently. This recognition comes as direct observations in the field show unexpected trends. In the Sargasso Sea, for example, shallow carbon export has increased in the last decade but the corresponding shift in phytoplankton community composition during this time has not been towards larger cells like diatoms. Instead, the abundance of the picoplanktonic cyanobacterium, Synechococccus, has increased significantly. The trophic pathways that link the increased abundance of Synechococcus to carbon export have not been characterized. These observations helped to frame the overarching research question, "How do plankton size, community composition and trophic interactions modify carbon export from the euphotic zone". Since small phytoplankton are responsible for the majority of primary production in oligotrophic subtropical gyres, the trophic interactions that include them must be characterized in order to achieve a mechanistic understanding of the function of the biological pump in the oligotrophic regions of the ocean. This requires a complete characterization of the major organisms and their rates of production and consumption. Accordingly, the research objectives are: 1) to characterize (qualitatively and quantitatively) trophic interactions between major plankton groups in the euphotic zone and rates of, and contributors to, carbon export and 2) to develop a constrained food web model, based on these data, that will allow us to better understand current and predict near-future patterns in export production in the Sargasso Sea. The investigators will use a combination of field-based process studies and food web modeling to quantify rates of carbon exchange between key components of the ecosystem at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site. Measurements will include a novel DNA-based approach to characterizing and quantifying planktonic contributors to carbon export. The well-documented seasonal variability at BATS and the occurrence of mesoscale eddies will be used as a natural laboratory in which to study ecosystems of different structure. This study is unique in that it aims to characterize multiple food web interactions and carbon export simultaneously and over similar time and space scales. A key strength of the proposed research is also the tight connection and feedback between the data collection and modeling components. Characterizing the complex interactions between the biological community and export production is critical for predicting changes in phytoplankton species dominance, trophic relationships and export production that might occur under scenarios of climate-related changes in ocean circulation and mixing. The results from this research may also contribute to understanding of the biological mechanisms that drive current regional to basin scale variability in carbon export in oligotrophic gyres.
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_end_date	String	2014-09
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_geolocation	String	Sargasso Sea, BATS site
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_name	String	Plankton Community Composition and Trophic Interactions as Modifiers of Carbon Export in the Sargasso Sea
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_project_nid	String	2150
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_start_date	String	2010-10
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	publisher_name	String	Biological and Chemical Oceanographic Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	publisher_type	String	institution
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	sourceUrl	String	(local files)
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	Southernmost_Northing	double	29.5879
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	standard_name_vocabulary	String	CF Standard Name Table v55
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	summary	String	Sediment trap flux collected from R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises AE1102, AE1118, AE1206, AE1219 in the Sargasso Sea, Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Station from 2011-2012.
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	title	String	[sediment trap flux] - Sediment trap flux collected from R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises AE1102, AE1118, AE1206, AE1219 in the Sargasso Sea, Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Station from 2011-2012 (Trophic BATS project) (Plankton Community Composition and Trophic Interactions as Modifiers of Carbon Export in the Sargasso Sea )
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	version	String	1
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	Westernmost_Easting	double	-65.77848
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	xml_source	String	osprey2erddap.update_xml() v1.3
variable	cruise_id		String
attribute	cruise_id	bcodmo_name	String	cruise_id
attribute	cruise_id	description	String	Official cruise identifier e.g. AE1102 = R/V Atlantic Explorer cruise number 1102.
attribute	cruise_id	long_name	String	Cruise Id
attribute	cruise_id	units	String	text
variable	deployment_no		byte
attribute	deployment_no	_FillValue	byte	127
attribute	deployment_no	actual_range	byte	1, 8
attribute	deployment_no	bcodmo_name	String	deploy
attribute	deployment_no	description	String	Sequential trap deployment number within cruise.
attribute	deployment_no	long_name	String	Deployment No
attribute	deployment_no	units	String	integer
variable	date		int
attribute	date	_FillValue	int	2147483647
attribute	date	actual_range	int	20110224, 20120726
attribute	date	bcodmo_name	String	date
attribute	date	description	String	Date traps deployed in YYYYmmdd format.
attribute	date	long_name	String	Date
attribute	date	nerc_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/ADATAA01/
attribute	date	units	String	unitless
variable	month		String
attribute	month	bcodmo_name	String	month
attribute	month	description	String	2-digit month when traps were deployed.
attribute	month	long_name	String	Month
attribute	month	nerc_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/MNTHXXXX/
attribute	month	units	String	mm (01 to 12)
variable	day		String
attribute	day	bcodmo_name	String	day
attribute	day	description	String	2-digit day of month when traps were deployed.
attribute	day	long_name	String	Day
attribute	day	nerc_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/DAYXXXXX/
attribute	day	units	String	dd (01 to 31)
variable	year		short
attribute	year	_FillValue	short	32767
attribute	year	actual_range	short	2011, 2012
attribute	year	bcodmo_name	String	year
attribute	year	description	String	Year when traps were deployed in YYYY format.
attribute	year	long_name	String	Year
attribute	year	nerc_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/YEARXXXX/
attribute	year	units	String	unitless
variable	latitude		double
attribute	latitude	_CoordinateAxisType	String	Lat
attribute	latitude	_FillValue	double	NaN
attribute	latitude	actual_range	double	29.5879, 33.46986667
attribute	latitude	axis	String	Y
attribute	latitude	bcodmo_name	String	latitude
attribute	latitude	colorBarMaximum	double	90.0
attribute	latitude	colorBarMinimum	double	-90.0
attribute	latitude	description	String	Latitude of trap deployment, positive is North.
attribute	latitude	ioos_category	String	Location
attribute	latitude	long_name	String	Latitude
attribute	latitude	nerc_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P09/current/LATX/
attribute	latitude	standard_name	String	latitude
attribute	latitude	units	String	degrees_north
variable	longitude		double
attribute	longitude	_CoordinateAxisType	String	Lon
attribute	longitude	_FillValue	double	NaN
attribute	longitude	actual_range	double	-65.77848, -63.5012
attribute	longitude	axis	String	X
attribute	longitude	bcodmo_name	String	longitude
attribute	longitude	colorBarMaximum	double	180.0
attribute	longitude	colorBarMinimum	double	-180.0
attribute	longitude	description	String	Longitude of trap deployment, West in negative.
attribute	longitude	ioos_category	String	Location
attribute	longitude	long_name	String	Longitude
attribute	longitude	nerc_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P09/current/LONX/
attribute	longitude	standard_name	String	longitude
attribute	longitude	units	String	degrees_east
variable	depth		double
attribute	depth	_CoordinateAxisType	String	Height
attribute	depth	_CoordinateZisPositive	String	down
attribute	depth	_FillValue	double	NaN
attribute	depth	actual_range	double	150.0, 300.0
attribute	depth	axis	String	Z
attribute	depth	bcodmo_name	String	depth_trap
attribute	depth	colorBarMaximum	double	8000.0
attribute	depth	colorBarMinimum	double	-8000.0
attribute	depth	colorBarPalette	String	TopographyDepth
attribute	depth	description	String	Depth of individual sediment trap arrays.
attribute	depth	ioos_category	String	Location
attribute	depth	long_name	String	Depth
attribute	depth	positive	String	down
attribute	depth	standard_name	String	depth
attribute	depth	units	String	m
variable	mass_flux		float
attribute	mass_flux	_FillValue	float	NaN
attribute	mass_flux	actual_range	float	0.0, 345.23
attribute	mass_flux	bcodmo_name	String	unknown
attribute	mass_flux	description	String	Total mass flux in milligrams per square-meter per day.
attribute	mass_flux	long_name	String	Mass Flux
attribute	mass_flux	units	String	mg/m^2/d
variable	POC_flux		float
attribute	POC_flux	_FillValue	float	NaN
attribute	POC_flux	actual_range	float	1.56, 71.6
attribute	POC_flux	bcodmo_name	String	unknown
attribute	POC_flux	description	String	Particulate organic carbon flux in milligrams per square-meter per day.
attribute	POC_flux	long_name	String	POC Flux
attribute	POC_flux	units	String	mg/m^2/d
variable	PON_flux		float
attribute	PON_flux	_FillValue	float	NaN
attribute	PON_flux	actual_range	float	0.16, 8.73
attribute	PON_flux	bcodmo_name	String	unknown
attribute	PON_flux	description	String	Particulate organic nitrogen flux in milligrams per square-meter per day.
attribute	PON_flux	long_name	String	PON Flux
attribute	PON_flux	units	String	mg/m^2/d
variable	particulate_P_flux		float
attribute	particulate_P_flux	_FillValue	float	NaN
attribute	particulate_P_flux	actual_range	float	0.011, 0.94
attribute	particulate_P_flux	bcodmo_name	String	unknown
attribute	particulate_P_flux	description	String	Particulate phosphorus flux in milligrams per square-meter per day.
attribute	particulate_P_flux	long_name	String	Particulate P Flux
attribute	particulate_P_flux	units	String	mg/m^2/d

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