Parameter: Site

The location name that the water sample was collected from using a boat (East Passage; Long Term Plankton Time Series; NES LTER cruises; Whale Rock) or from the shore [Castle Hill Beach; Fort Wetherill; University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography dock (GSO Dock)]. The Site name for samples from the NES LTER cruises include the closest station (L#); CTD cast; Niskin bottle that the sample came from; and approximate depth in meters (m) that the sample came from according to the CTD bottle log. There were two instances the CTD cast was not used for these samples: One sample (AS399) was taken using the flowthrough (a.k.a. underway system) which takes a sample from a surface depth of 5 meter from the ship and another sample (AS421) was taken using a bucket over the side of the ship at a depth of 0 meters at the surface of the water.