Dataset: meso_grazing
Deployment: TT007

Mesozooplankton grazing rates

Principal Investigator:

Hans G. Dam (University of Connecticut, UConn)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Cynthia L. Chandler (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Project:

U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac)

Version:

December 8, 1994

Deployment Synonyms:

EqPac Spring Survey

Version Date:

1994-12-08

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/450815/data

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Description

Mesozooplankton grazing rates

Methods & Sampling

Dataset acquisition description

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Deployment-specific acquisition description

   PI:              Hans Dam
   of:              University of Connecticut
   dataset:         Mesozooplankton grazing rates
   dates:           February 04, 1992 to March 08, 1992
   location:        N: 12.0143  S: -12.0683  W: -140.4845  E: -135.0183
   project/cruise:  EQPAC/TT007 - Spring Survey
   ship:            Thomas Thompson
 
   These data represent weight-specific grazing rates of
   mesozooplankton as a function of latitude, depth and size fractions
   of animals for the Survey cruises of the EqPac study.
 
   Grazing was measured with the gut fluorescence technique. Details
   are given in the EqPac Protocols.  Mean GCRC (gut clearance rate constant)
   of this cruise (0.036 min-1) was used.

Data Processing Description

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Instruments

MOCNESS

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: MOCNESS

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L22/current/NETT0097/

Generic Description:

The Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System or MOCNESS is a family of net systems based on the Tucker Trawl principle. There are currently 8 different sizes of MOCNESS in existence which are designed for capture of different size ranges of zooplankton and micro-nekton Each system is designated according to the size of the net mouth opening and in two cases, the number of nets it carries. The original MOCNESS (Wiebe et al, 1976) was a redesigned and improved version of a system described by Frost and McCrone (1974).(from MOCNESS manual) This designation is used when the specific type of MOCNESS (number and size of nets) was not specified by the contributing investigator.

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
lat_n	nominal latitude, minus values south	whole degrees	no_bcodmo_term
event	event number from event log, a composite of month/day/time local Hawaii time		event
sta	station number from event log		no_bcodmo_term
tow	plankton tow number from event log		tow
depth_r	depth range/interval sampled	meters	no_bcodmo_term
sizefrac	size fraction/interval of organisms analyzed	millimeters	no_bcodmo_term
graze_rate	grazing rate	milligrams pigment/milligrams body C/hour	no_bcodmo_term
depth_range	depth range/interval sampled	meters	no_bcodmo_term

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Deployment: TT007

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Dataset: meso_grazing
Deployment: TT007