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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\nsurvey conducted from 2015-2017. Physical characteristics were recorded for\neach of six shore-normal transects of variable length that extended from the\nlower edge of terrestrial vegetation or the bluff to the lowest intertidal\nlevel exposed by swash at each location. The transects were randomly assigned\nto locations within the first 100 m of shoreline from the access point using a\nrandom number table and a distance measuring wheel. To characterize the beach,\nsurf and swash zones we measured the beach width from lower edge of\nterrestrial vegetation or the bluff to the lowest intertidal level exposed by\nswash, recording locations of the water table outcrop (WTO) and high tide\nstrand 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 (external link)
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 \n  PI: Jenifer Dugan (UCSB) \n  Co-PI: Robert Miller (UCSB) \n  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/ (external link)
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 (external link)
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 (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL metadata_source String https://www.bco-dmo.org/api/dataset/815025 (external link)
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 (external link)
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.\nDescription from NSF award abstract:\nPrimary 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.\nThe project seeks to understand trophic connectivity between a donor ecosystem, kelp forests, and a recipient ecosystem, sandy beaches, with two primary goals:\n1) an evaluation of how variation in kelp wrack input affects patterns and processes in beach ecosystems and\n2) a quantitative understanding of trophic connectivity through physical transport and input of drift kelp biomass from kelp forests to sandy beaches.\nThe 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/ (external link)
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/ (external link)
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/ (external link)
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/ (external link)
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/ (external link)
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/ (external link)
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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