Dataset: Zooplankton biomass, taxonomic composition, and abundance in the Pacific Ocean from 2015-04-11 to 2015-06-18 measured by the Underwater Vision Profiler 5 (UVP5) on the P16N Repeat Hydrography cruise aboard the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.787966.2Version 2 (2021-04-12)Dataset Type:Cruise Results

Principal Investigator: Andrew M.P. McDonnell (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Variability in particle size distributions, sinking velocities, and fluxes in the northern Gulf of Alaska (GoA Particles)


Abstract

This dataset includes zooplankton biomass, taxonomic composition, and abundance in the Pacific Ocean from 2015-04-11 to 2015-06-18 measured by the Underwater Vision Profiler 5 (UVP5) on the P16N Repeat Hydrography cruise aboard the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown.

The Underwater Vision Profiler (UVP5) is an underwater camera system that was designed to record the vertical distributions of large aggregates and zooplankton (> 102 µm) down to 6000 m. Two units that consist of red-light emitting diodes (LEDs) illuminate (in 100 µsecond flashes) an area of 4 X 20 cm which provides a volume sampling of ~1L per frame. The UVP5 was mounted on the bottom of each CTD rosette and collected data on each CTD cast (data are collected during the down cast). The methodology generally follows Picheral et al., 2010.


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Methods

Picheral, M., Guidi, L., Stemmann, L., Karl, D. M., Iddaoud, G., & Gorsky, G. (2010). The Underwater Vision Profiler 5: An advanced instrument for high spatial resolution studies of particle size spectra and zooplankton. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 8(9), 462–473. doi:10.4319/lom.2010.8.462