Table of Contents

• Coverage
• Dataset Description
  • Methods & Sampling
  • Data Processing Description
• Data Files
• Parameters
• Instruments
• Deployments
• Project Information
• Program Information
• Funding

Particulate Organic Carbon and Nitrogen
from Ice and Water Samples

Data Note:
This data set consists of samples derived from a varity substrats, depths within substrats and sampling devices: ice, slush, brine, water, ice core, bottles, buckets etc. The user may want to out edit the file(s) before use.

Methods:
Weight percent carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen were determined by combustion analysis at the UCSB Marine Science Institute Analytical Laboratory (www.msi.ucsb.edu/Analab/index.html), using automated organic elemental analyzers (CHNs) manufactured by Exeter Analytical (www.eai1.com) (formerly Control Equipment Corp.), Model 440XA. Instruments were operated following manufacturer-recommended settings and procedures, and calibrated using acetanilide, with performance being monitored to achieve an analytical precision of 0.3 wt. %. (per Wendy Kozlowski, e-mail 11/23/03)

POC and PON values have been corrected for a filtered sea water blank value of: 10.32 ug for POC and 1.59 ug for PON.

A short note on the "grid": The grid is a Cartesian plane covering the sample region in which distances are easy to calculate. The grid system used for SOGLOBEC is a universal transverse mercator (UTM) projection with a certain base point and rotation. The base point was chosen in the far south and the rotation was chosen to create one axis along the peninsula, and the other offshore. The units of UTM are meters, but the points are chosen in km rounded to the nearest km. Negative numbers mean that samples were taken southwest of the y axis or southeast of the x axis. For more details see: Complete explanation of the Southern Ocean grid system.

Data contributed by:
Maria Vernet
Integrative Oceanographic Division
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California 92093-0218

Phone: 1-858-534-5322
E-mail: mvernet@ucsd.edu


Last updated: December 13, 2005; gfh

This data set consists of samples derived from a varity substrats, depths within substrats and sampling devices: ice, slush, brine, water, ice core, bottles, buckets etc.

Weight percent carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen were determined by combustion analysis at the UCSB Marine Science Institute Analytical Laboratory (www.msi.ucsb.edu/Analab/index.html), using automated organic elemental analyzers (CHNs) manufactured by Exeter Analytical (www.eai1.com) (formerly Control Equipment Corp.), Model 440XA. Instruments were operated following manufacturer-recommended settings and procedures, and calibrated using acetanilide, with performance being monitored to achieve an analytical precision of 0.3 wt. %. (per Wendy Kozlowski, e-mail 11/23/03)

POC and PON values have been corrected for a filtered sea water blank value of: 10.32 ug for POC and 1.59 ug for PON.

The fundamental objectives of United States Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (U.S. GLOBEC) Program are dependent upon the cooperation of scientists from several disciplines. Physicists, biologists, and chemists must make use of data collected during U.S. GLOBEC field programs to further our understanding of the interplay of physics, biology, and chemistry. Our objectives require quantitative analysis of interdisciplinary data sets and, therefore, data must be exchanged between researchers. To extract the full scientific value, data must be made available to the scientific community on a timely basis.

U.S. GLOBEC (GLOBal ocean ECosystems dynamics) is a research program organized by oceanographers and fisheries scientists to address the question of how global climate change may affect the abundance and production of animals in the sea.

The U.S. GLOBEC Program currently had major research efforts underway in the Georges Bank / Northwest Atlantic Region, and the Northeast Pacific (with components in the California Current and in the Coastal Gulf of Alaska). U.S. GLOBEC was a major contributor to International GLOBEC efforts in the Southern Ocean and Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP).