Dataset: Peptidase Activities 2013 WOR

Sediment pushers were collected manually from the White Oak River, Station H. The core was transported to the Institute of Marine Sciences at Morehead City, NC, and sectioned at 3-cm intervals. Intervals are named for the center of the interval (i.e., depth=1.5 cm refers to the interval from 0 to 3 cm). Substrates were brought up in an anoxic slurry of buffered artificial seawater at an approximate ratio of 0.5 g sediment to 4 ml medium and transferred into 5 ml serum vials, which were briefly purged with N2 to preserve anoxia. Immediately after mixing and again three times over the course of about 4 hours, approximately 1 ml of sediment was removed, centrifuged briefly, and fluorescence of the supernatant was measured using a Promega Quantifluor ST fluorescence detector set to UV (ex ca. 350 nm, em ca 450 nm). Separately, the sediments were standardized using AMC, and a 6-hour incubation with AMC showed that sorption of AMC to sediments was negligible.