Dataset: Radium isotopes in groundwater
Deployment: LittleLagoon

Radium isotope results from groundwater wells around Little Lagoon, Alabama

View Data: For data, See Dataset Metadata Page: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/537393

Principal Investigator:

William C. Burnett (Florida State University EOAS, FSU - EOAS)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Behzad Mortazavi (University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, UA/Tuscaloosa)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Ms Dicky Allison (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Project:

Groundwater Discharge, Benthic Coupling and Microalgal Community Structure in a Shallow Coastal Lagoon (LittleLagoonGroundwater)

Current State:

Preliminary and in progress

Version:

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Description

Radium isotope results from groundwater wells around Lake Shelby, Alabama. These data are part of a study to assess submarine groundwater discharge.

Results, methodology, summary tables and instrumentation are included in:

Su, Ni, W.C. Burnett, H.L. MacIntyre, J.D. Liefer, R.N. Peterson and R. Viso, 2014. Natural Radon and Radium Isotopes for Assessing Groundwater Discharge into Little Lagoon, AL: Implications for Harmful Algal Blooms. Estuaries and Coasts, 37: 893-910. (pdf)

Keywords: Radium isotopes; Submarine groundwater discharge; algal blooms;

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Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
OCE-0961970	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences

Instruments

Gamma Ray Spectrometer

Supplied Name: Ortec IG detector

Supplied Description:

with relative efficiency of 20% (Dulaiova and Burnet, 2004) - see methodology paper by Su et al.

Ra determined via Lucas cell counting and assessed by gamma spectrometry (R=0.97, n=112).

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Gamma Ray Spectrometer

Generic Description:

Instruments measuring the relative levels of electromagnetic radiation of different wavelengths in the gamma-ray waveband.

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
date_local	date at time of collection	dd-mon-yy	date_local
year	year of collection	yyyy	year
yrday_local	day of year - mostly for plotting	julian day	yrday_local
site	descriptive text for station	text	site
lat	latitude	decimal degrees; North is positive	lat
lon	longitude	decimal degrees; West is negative	lon
sal	salinity	practical salinity units	sal
Ra223	radium isotope 223	disintegrations per minute per Liter	radioactive_isotope_conc
err_Ra223	uncertainty of measurements - plus or minus one delta	disintegrations per minute per Liter	radioactive_isotope_err
temp	temperature of water	degrees centigrade	temp
Ra224	radium isotope 224	disintegrations per minute per 100 Liters	no_bcodmo_term
err_Ra224	uncertainty of measurements - plus or minus one delta	disintegrations per minute per 100 Liters	no_bcodmo_term
Ra226	radium isotope 224	disintegrations per minute per 100 Liters	no_bcodmo_term
err_Ra226	uncertainty of measurements - plus or minus one delta	disintegrations per minute per 100 Liters	no_bcodmo_term
Ra228	radium isotope 224	disintegrations per minute per 100 Liters	no_bcodmo_term
Ra228_err	uncertainty of measurements - plus or minus one delta	disintegrations per minute per 100 Liters	no_bcodmo_term

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