High pressure liquid chromatography analyses of photosynthetic pigments taken on the R/V Acadian and R/V Pelican from September to October 2017 in the Central northern Gulf of Mexico

Website: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/789061
Data Type: Cruise Results
Version: 1
Version Date: 2020-02-03

Project
» Collaborative Research: A RAPID response to Hurricane Harvey's impacts on coastal carbon cycle, metabolic balance and ocean acidification (HarveyCarbonCycle)
ContributorsAffiliationRole
Lohrenz, StevenUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMass Dartmouth)Principal Investigator
Cai, Wei-JunUniversity of DelawareCo-Principal Investigator
Chakraborty, SumitMote Marine Laboratory (Mote)Co-Principal Investigator
Soenen, KarenWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI BCO-DMO)BCO-DMO Data Manager

Abstract
High pressure liquid chromatography analyses of photosynthetic pigments taken on the R/V Acadian and R/V Pelican from September to October 2017 in the Central northern Gulf of Mexico.


Coverage

Spatial Extent: N:29.4883 E:-90.2333 S:28.375 W:-93.4167
Temporal Extent: 2017-09-18 - 2017-10-10

Dataset Description

High pressure liquid chromatography analyses of photosynthetic pigments taken on the R/V Acadian and R/V Pelican from September to October 2017 in the Central northern Gulf of Mexico.

These data have been published in NASA SeaBASS Data Archive:


Methods & Sampling

Seawater samples for pigment analyses were immediately filtered (2 to 5 l volume) onto Whatman 47 mm GF/F filters under low vacuum (<0.5 atm). The filters were blotted dry, and stored in 2 ml cryotubes (Fisher) in liquid nitrogen until analysis. Analyses were performed within 6 months to a year of sampling.

Extraction procedures and HPLC analytical methods follow those described in Thomas (2012) and HPLC_Method_Summary.pdf (see related files and publications). 


Data Processing Description

HPLC samples were analyzed during August-September 2018 at the Horn Point Analytical Laboratory by Meg Maddox (mmaddox@umces.edu). Values of -8888 indicate concentrations that were below detection levels. Values of -9999 indicate missing data. Coefficient of variation (replicate filter precision) for all NSF_Gulf_Rapid_HPLC samples was TChl a = 3.09%; Ppig = 4.28%.

The HPLC was controlled by Agilent Chemstation software.


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Data Files

File
hplc_analysis.csv
(Comma Separated Values (.csv), 28.29 KB)
MD5:8563c655689125a464a0a82f3fedb25c
Primary data file for dataset ID 789061

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Supplemental Files

File
HPLC Method Summary
filename: HPLC_method_summary.pdf
(Portable Document Format (.pdf), 52.99 KB)
MD5:89c2c743188087f66f7c866cb7ee00f5
High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Method Summary by Crystal Thomas

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Related Publications

Thomas, C. S. (2012), The HPL Method. In S.B. Hooker (Ed), The Fifth SeaWiFS HPLC Analysis Round-Robin Experiment (SeaHARRE-5) (pp. 63-72). Greenbelt, MD: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Methods

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Parameters

ParameterDescriptionUnits
Hpl_id

Lab Sample ID

unitless
Sample

Cruise Sample ID

unitless
Station

Station

unitless
Volfilt

Volume Filtered

liter (L)
Depth

Sample Depth

meter (m)
Date

Date (yyyymmdd) in UTC

unitless
Time

Time (hh:mm:ss)

unitless
Lat

Latitude (N)

decimal degrees
Lon

Longitude (E)

decimal degrees
Tot_Chl_a

DV_Chl_a + MV_Chl_a + Chlide_a + Chl_a_allom + Chl_a_prime

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Tot_Chl_b

DV_Chl_b + MV_Chl_b

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Tot_Chl_c

chl_c1 + chl_c2 (i.e.: chl_c1c2) + chl_c3

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
alpha_beta_Car

Alpha (Beta;epsilon) + Beta (Beta;beta) Carotenes

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
But_fuco

19'-Butanoyloxyfucoxanthin

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Hex_fuco

19'-Hexanoyloxyfucoxanthin

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Allo

Alloxanthin

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Diadino

Diadinoxanthin

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Diato

Diatoxanthin

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Fuco

Fucoxanthin

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Perid

Peridin

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Zea

Zeaxanthin

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
MV_Chl_a

Monovinyl Chorophyll a

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
DV_Chl_a

Divinyl Chorophyll a

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Chlide_a

Chlorophyllide a

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
MV_Chl_b

Monovinyl Chorophyll b

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
DV_Chl_b

Divinyl Chorophyll b

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Chl_c1c2

Chlorophyll c1 + c2 + Mg 2;4 divinyl pheoporphyrin a5 monomethyl ester

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Chl_c3

Chlorophyll c3

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Lut

Lutein

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Neo

Neoxanthin

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Viola

Violaxanthin

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Phytin_a

Pheophytin a

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Phide_a

Pheophorbide a

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Pras

Prasinoxanthin

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Gyro

Gyroxanthin

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
TChl

Tot_Chl_a + Tot_Chl_b + Tot_Chl_c

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
PPC

Photoprotective carotenoids (Allo + Diadino + Diato + Zeo + alpha-beta-Car)

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
PSC

Photosynthetic carotenoids (But-fuco + Fuco + Hex-fuco + Perid)

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
PSP

Photosynthetic pigments (PSC + Tchl)

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Tcar

Total Carotenoids (PPC + PSC)

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Tacc

Total accessory pigments (PPC + PSC + Tot_Chl_b + Tot_Chl_c)

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Tpg

Total pigment concentration

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
DP

Total diagnostic pigments (PSC + Allo + Zea + Tot_Chl_b)

milligram per cubic meter (mg/m^3)
Tacc_Tchla

Ratio of Tacc to Tot_Chl_a

unitless
PSC_Tcar

Ratio of PSC to Tcar

unitless
PPC_Tcar

Ratio of PPC to Tcar

unitless
TChl_Tcar

Ratio of Tchl to Tcar

unitless
PPC_Tpg

Ratio of PPC to Tpg

unitless
PSP_Tpg

Ratio of PSC to Tpg

unitless
TChla_Tpg

Ratio of Tot_chl_a to Tpg

unitless
Cruise

Cruise ID (AC18_12_Roberts or PE18-11)

unitless
ISO_DateTime_UTC

Date and time (UTC) in ISO format (yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss)

 

unitless


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Instruments

Dataset-specific Instrument Name
Agilent RR1200 HPLC
Generic Instrument Name
High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph
Dataset-specific Description
Agilent RR1200 HPLC controlled bu Agilent Chemstation software
Generic Instrument Description
A High-performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) is a type of liquid chromatography used to separate compounds that are dissolved in solution. HPLC instruments consist of a reservoir of the mobile phase, a pump, an injector, a separation column, and a detector. Compounds are separated by high pressure pumping of the sample mixture onto a column packed with microspheres coated with the stationary phase. The different components in the mixture pass through the column at different rates due to differences in their partitioning behavior between the mobile liquid phase and the stationary phase.


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Deployments

AC18-12

Website
Platform
R/V Acadiana
Start Date
2017-09-17
End Date
2017-09-21

PE18-11

Website
Platform
R/V Pelican
Start Date
2017-09-28
End Date
2017-10-11
Description
Additional cruise information is available from the Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R): https://www.rvdata.us/search/cruise/PE18-11


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Project Information

Collaborative Research: A RAPID response to Hurricane Harvey's impacts on coastal carbon cycle, metabolic balance and ocean acidification (HarveyCarbonCycle)

Coverage: Northwestern Gulf of Mexico


NSF Award Abstract:
Understanding how extreme events, like hurricanes, impact coastal ecosystems and the cycling of elements like carbon and oxygen, is important for improving our ability to predict how the global carbon cycle will respond to climate. This team of investigators, who have already been working together on understanding the carbon cycle in the Gulf of Mexico continental shelves, have important recent data against which to measure the effects of the passage of Hurricane Harvey in August, 2017. They will sample the waters and sediments of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico in September, October, and January to assess Harvey's impacts on a timescale of weeks to months.

The researchers pose three specific questions: 1. Will the region become a major source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, releasing carbon accumulated in the bottom water and sediments, and will this potential impact be faster and greater than during normal fall and winter mixing events? Will this process acidify the surface water and for how long? 2. Will the metabolic balance be substantially pushed toward net heterotrophy as a result of the storm in comparison to other years? 3. Can the amount of material delivered or redeposited across the continental shelf by a tropical cyclone be considerably larger than that related to winter storm systems? The PIs will measure water column nutrients, oxygen, organic carbon, and inorganic carbon system parameters; determine water column and benthic metabolic and nutrient flux rates; and sediment organic matter deposition rates. They will also collect end member river samples. They will compare the immediate (mid-Sept) but limited post-hurricane data and one-month post-hurricane, more detailed data with those collected in July and April to study the impacts of the storms. they will also compare 2017-2018 seasonal data to seasonal data over the same region collected in the past (2006-2008 and 2009-2010). They will also compare the impacts of Hurricane Harvey to those of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (2005) and Tropical Storm Cindy (June 2017). The project will involve graduate and postdoctoral research and work to communicate results to the public.



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Funding

Funding SourceAward
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE)
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE)

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