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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	[Beach Characteristics] - Physical characteristics of six Santa Barbara beaches quantified during surveys conducted from 2015-2017 (Linking nearshore kelp forest dynamics to sandy beach ecosystems)		F   I   M	background			BCO-DMO	bcodmo_dataset_815025

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	We quantified physical characteristics of the six study beaches during each survey conducted from 2015-2017. Physical characteristics were recorded for each of six shore-normal transects of variable length that extended from the lower edge of terrestrial vegetation or the bluff to the lowest intertidal level exposed by swash at each location. The transects were randomly assigned to locations within the first 100 m of shoreline from the access point using a random number table and a distance measuring wheel. To characterize the beach, surf and swash zones we measured the beach width from lower edge of terrestrial vegetation or the bluff to the lowest intertidal level exposed by swash, recording locations of the water table outcrop (WTO) and high tide strand line (HTS) and beach slope at these two locations.
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_award_nid	String	542227
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_award_number	String	OCE-1458845
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	awards_0_data_url	String	http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1458845
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	Physical characteristics of six Santa Barbara beaches PI: Jenifer Dugan (UCSB) Co-PI: Robert Miller (UCSB) Version date: 15 June 2020
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	dataset_current_state	String	Final and no updates
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	date_created	String	2020-06-15T16:08:57Z
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	date_modified	String	2020-06-23T13:29:28Z
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	defaultDataQuery	String	&time<now
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	doi	String	10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.815025.1
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	Easternmost_Easting	double	-119.7469
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lat_max	double	34.4173
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lat_min	double	34.4037
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lat_units	String	degrees_north
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lon_max	double	-119.7469
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lon_min	double	-119.8857
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	geospatial_lon_units	String	degrees_east
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	infoUrl	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/815025
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	institution	String	BCO-DMO
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	instruments_0_dataset_instrument_nid	String	815078
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	instruments_0_description	String	A tape measure or measuring tape is a flexible ruler. It consists of a ribbon of cloth, plastic, fibre glass, or metal strip with linear-measurement markings. It is a common tool for measuring distance or length.
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	instruments_0_instrument_name	String	Measuring Tape
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	instruments_0_instrument_nid	String	645010
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	instruments_0_supplied_name	String	distance measuring wheel
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	keywords	String	bco, bco-dmo, biological, chemical, data, dataset, date, day, dmo, erddap, hts, HTS_Slope, latitude, longitude, management, month, name, oceanography, office, preliminary, site, Site_Name, slope, time, transect, wto, WTO_Slope, year
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	license	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/815025/license
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	metadata_source	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/api/dataset/815025
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	Northernmost_Northing	double	34.4173
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	param_mapping	String	{'815025': {'Latitude': 'flag - latitude', 'Longitude': 'flag - longitude'}}
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	parameter_source	String	https://www.bco-dmo.org/mapserver/dataset/815025/parameters
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_affiliation	String	University of California-Santa Barbara
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_affiliation_acronym	String	UCSB-MSI
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_person_name	String	Jenifer E. Dugan
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_0_person_nid	String	542219
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	University of California-Santa Barbara
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_affiliation_acronym	String	UCSB-MSI
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_person_name	String	Robert Miller
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_person_nid	String	542220
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_role	String	Co-Principal Investigator
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_1_role_type	String	originator
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_2_affiliation	String	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_2_affiliation_acronym	String	WHOI BCO-DMO
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_2_person_name	String	Shannon Rauch
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_2_person_nid	String	51498
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_2_role	String	BCO-DMO Data Manager
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	people_2_role_type	String	related
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	project	String	Linking Kelp to Beaches
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_acronym	String	Linking Kelp to Beaches
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_description	String	This project is affiliated with the Santa Barbara Coastal LTER project. Description from NSF award abstract: Primary producers, such as plants and algae, form the basis of most food webs and their productivity and fate fundamentally shape ecosystems. Often, however, food and other resources are delivered to a food web from an outside source, providing a subsidy to the recipient ecosystem. Understanding these types of trophic connections and exchanges between ecosystems is necessary for predicting how food webs may respond to change, whether environmental or anthropogenic. Despite their potential importance, quantitative evaluations of cross-ecosystem material fluxes, variation of these fluxes in time and space, and ecological responses of recipient communities are lacking, particularly for marine ecosystems. By investigating links between a source ecosystem, kelp forests, and a recipient ecosystem, sandy beaches, this project will expand and transform our understanding of cross-ecosystem fluxes in the coastal ocean. Nearshore kelp forests are highly productive marine ecosystems characterized by large seasonal and interannual variations in net primary production (NPP). More than 90% of kelp forest NPP is exported to adjacent ecosystems including the intertidal zone. Lacking attached plants and algae, sandy beach ecosystems near kelp forests depend heavily on imported drift kelp (wrack) to support complex and diverse food webs. Although sandy beaches are a dominant shoreline type along all U.S. coasts, provide habitat and prey for wildlife, including endangered species, and are highly valued by society as recreational and cultural resources that drive vibrant coastal economies, they receive little ecological study compared to other shoreline types. This lack of knowledge hinders the conservation and management of beaches as ecosystems. Perched on the narrow rim between land and sea, beaches are highly vulnerable to climate change, particularly sea level rise, and will be impacted by changes in climate, as will kelp forests. This project integrates biological and physical approaches to achieve an understanding of the fate and transport of exported kelp, and how variability in this resource subsidy shapes the community structure and function of recipient beach ecosystems. Graduate and undergraduate students will be integral members of the research team, receiving scientific training and mentoring in coastal marine ecology and in public outreach and education. The training and participation of local residents and coastal managers in regular shoreline surveys for beached kelp plants will provide an essential research component of the study and enhance public awareness of scientific research, coastal ecology and the role of links between kelp forest and beach ecosystems. The results of this project will provide new insights into the dynamics of connectivity between coastal marine ecosystems that can be applied to their conservation and management. The project seeks to understand trophic connectivity between a donor ecosystem, kelp forests, and a recipient ecosystem, sandy beaches, with two primary goals: 1) an evaluation of how variation in kelp wrack input affects patterns and processes in beach ecosystems and 2) a quantitative understanding of trophic connectivity through physical transport and input of drift kelp biomass from kelp forests to sandy beaches. The project will begin with two years of intensive work at a well-studied kelp forest in the Santa Barbara Channel, Mohawk Reef, and along 10 km of adjacent coastline, where the research team will measure intertidal community structure over time in response to variability in kelp inputs. To assess effects of variation in wrack input on ecosystem function, they will also measure kelp consumption and secondary production rates of intertidal consumers on adjacent beaches. They will directly observe fate and transport of kelp using complimentary approaches: 1) tracking kelp plants tagged at Mohawk Reef using drifters with GPS; and 2) tagging large numbers of kelp plants (2000) with "drift cards" at Mohawk Reef for recovery by the project team and trained volunteer beachcombers. Ending distributions of recovered drift cards and drifter tracks along the shoreline will then be computed. These data will be used to inform and validate a kelp forest-to-beach kelp transport model based on numerical simulations of coastal surface currents from the Regional Oceanic Modeling System (ROMS). Using predicted kelp beaching rates from this model run regionally, the investigators will then sample community structure and wrack biomass at a larger set of beaches spanning 100 km of the southern California shoreline to test the generality of research findings. This combination of fate and transport observations, beach community surveys and process measurements, and modeling will allow the investigators to characterize temporal variability in kelp subsidy inputs and the consequences of this variability for community structure and function of recipient beach ecosystems.
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_end_date	String	2019-03
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_geolocation	String	Santa Barbara Channel, California, USA 34 N, 119 W
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_name	String	Linking nearshore kelp forest dynamics to sandy beach ecosystems
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_project_nid	String	542223
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	projects_0_start_date	String	2015-04
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	34.4037
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	standard_name_vocabulary	String	CF Standard Name Table v55
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	summary	String	Physical characteristics of six Santa Barbara beaches quantified during surveys conducted from 2015-2017. Physical characteristics were recorded for each of six shore-normal transects of variable length that extended from the lower edge of terrestrial vegetation or the bluff to the lowest intertidal level exposed by swash at each location.
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	title	String	[Beach Characteristics] - Physical characteristics of six Santa Barbara beaches quantified during surveys conducted from 2015-2017 (Linking nearshore kelp forest dynamics to sandy beach ecosystems)
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	version	String	1
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	Westernmost_Easting	double	-119.8857
attribute	NC_GLOBAL	xml_source	String	osprey2erddap.update_xml() v1.5
variable	Site_Name		String
attribute	Site_Name	bcodmo_name	String	site
attribute	Site_Name	description	String	Unique site name
attribute	Site_Name	long_name	String	Site Name
attribute	Site_Name	units	String	unitless
variable	latitude		double
attribute	latitude	_CoordinateAxisType	String	Lat
attribute	latitude	_FillValue	double	NaN
attribute	latitude	actual_range	double	34.4037, 34.4173
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 the survey site; positive values = 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	-119.8857, -119.7469
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 the survey site; positive values = East
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	Date		String
attribute	Date	bcodmo_name	String	date
attribute	Date	description	String	Date of survey; format: YYYY-MM-DD
attribute	Date	long_name	String	Date
attribute	Date	nerc_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/ADATAA01/
attribute	Date	source_name	String	Date
attribute	Date	time_precision	String	1970-01-01
attribute	Date	units	String	unitless
variable	Month		String
attribute	Month	bcodmo_name	String	month
attribute	Month	description	String	The month that the survey was done. Dates reflect measurements taken in local time. For sites in Alaska, local time is Alaska Standard Time except during months when Alaska Daylight time is effective. For all other Pacific Coast sites, local time is Pacific Standard Time except during months when Pacific Daylight Time is effective.
attribute	Month	long_name	String	Month
attribute	Month	nerc_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/MNTHXXXX/
attribute	Month	units	String	unitless
variable	Day		byte
attribute	Day	_FillValue	byte	127
attribute	Day	actual_range	byte	1, 30
attribute	Day	bcodmo_name	String	day
attribute	Day	description	String	Day of month of survey
attribute	Day	long_name	String	Day
attribute	Day	nerc_identifier	String	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/DAYXXXXX/
attribute	Day	units	String	unitless
variable	Year		short
attribute	Year	_FillValue	short	32767
attribute	Year	actual_range	short	2015, 2017
attribute	Year	bcodmo_name	String	year
attribute	Year	description	String	The year that the survey was done. This year is expressed in YYYY format. Dates reflect measurements taken in local time. For sites in Alaska, local time is Alaska Standard Time except during months when Alaska Daylight time is effective. For all other Pacific Coast sites, local time is Pacific Standard Time except during months when Pacific Daylight Time is effective.
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	Transect		String
attribute	Transect	bcodmo_name	String	transect
attribute	Transect	description	String	A letter representing one of 6 shore normal transects (A-F) within the study beach. The transect letter is determined by the order from the beach access point.
attribute	Transect	long_name	String	Transect
attribute	Transect	units	String	unitless
variable	HTS		float
attribute	HTS	_FillValue	float	NaN
attribute	HTS	actual_range	float	0.0, 35.3
attribute	HTS	bcodmo_name	String	site_descrip
attribute	HTS	description	String	A number representing distance (meters) from back beach limit to the 24-hour high tide strand line
attribute	HTS	long_name	String	HTS
attribute	HTS	units	String	meters (m)
variable	HTS_Slope		float
attribute	HTS_Slope	_FillValue	float	NaN
attribute	HTS_Slope	actual_range	float	-2.5, 15.6
attribute	HTS_Slope	bcodmo_name	String	site_descrip
attribute	HTS_Slope	description	String	A number representing slope (degrees) of beach at the 24-hour high tide strand line
attribute	HTS_Slope	long_name	String	HTS Slope
attribute	HTS_Slope	units	String	degrees
variable	WTO		float
attribute	WTO	_FillValue	float	NaN
attribute	WTO	actual_range	float	9.5, 78.1
attribute	WTO	bcodmo_name	String	site_descrip
attribute	WTO	description	String	A number representing distance (meters) from back beach limit to the water table outcrop
attribute	WTO	long_name	String	WTO
attribute	WTO	units	String	meters (m)
variable	WTO_Slope		float
attribute	WTO_Slope	_FillValue	float	NaN
attribute	WTO_Slope	actual_range	float	1.3, 29.2
attribute	WTO_Slope	bcodmo_name	String	site_descrip
attribute	WTO_Slope	description	String	A number representing slope (degrees) of beach at the water table outcrop
attribute	WTO_Slope	long_name	String	WTO Slope
attribute	WTO_Slope	units	String	degrees

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