Dataset: Bottle Data from multiple cruises in the Gulf of Maine, NA4, 43 30N, 69 00W, Gulf of Maine, Mass Bay to Bay of Fundy, Cape Cod Bay, 2003-2010 (ALEX-GoME project)

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedDOI: 10.1575/1912/5824Version 21 March 2013 (2013-03-21)Dataset Type:Unknown

Principal Investigator, Contact: Dennis J. McGillicuddy (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Co-Principal Investigator, Contact, Data Manager: Olga Kosnyrev (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Stephen R. Gegg (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Investigations of Alexandrium fundyense dynamics in the Gulf of Maine (ALEX-GoME)

Multi year bottle data 2003-2010
Note: Dataset updated with 2008/EN448 Version 3 data srg/21Mar2013

These data include version 2 data as submitted.
Version 2 NOTES: Version 2 means that Data set has been updated in part of the new data added: (1) 2010 cruises; (2) Previously unavailable Whole cell counts from the previous cruises; (3) Previously unavailable data for Underway stations (mostly date, location).

Data files newly created or updated in this version are indicated with "_v2" in file names.
(BCO-DMO Note: for original files as contributed)

Date of creation: 5/12/2011.
Matlab code used for data merging: GM_read_alex_nuts_BTL_v2.m

No data reported for cruises: OC440 (2007) or EN456 (2008).

Data not sampled or lost are indicated with NaN.
Data not available at the time but supposed to arrive are indicated with the "waiting" flag=-9.99.

Funding:
The cruises from 2003-2004 were supported by NOAA grant NA160P2785 (MERHAB). The cruises from 2005-2010 were jointly funded: NSF grant OCE-0430724, NIEHS grant 1P50-ES01274201 (Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health) and NOAA grant NA06NOS4780245 (GOMTOX).


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Anderson, D. M., Keafer, B. A., Kleindinst, J. L., McGillicuddy, D. J., Martin, J. L., Norton, K., … Butman, B. (2014). Alexandrium fundyense cysts in the Gulf of Maine: Long-term time series of abundance and distribution, and linkages to past and future blooms. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 103, 6–26. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.10.002