Contributors | Affiliation | Role |
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Sebens, Kenneth | University of Washington (FHL) | Principal Investigator |
Carrington, Emily | University of Washington (FHL) | Co-Principal Investigator, Contact |
Gagnon, Alexander | University of Washington (UW) | Co-Principal Investigator |
Grunbaum, Daniel | University of Washington (UW) | Co-Principal Investigator |
Lessard, Evelyn J. | University of Washington (UW) | Co-Principal Investigator |
Newton, Jan | University of Washington (UW) | Co-Principal Investigator |
Swalla, Billie | University of Washington (UW) | Co-Principal Investigator |
Crosby, J. Dylan | University of Washington (UW) | Contact |
Kull, Kristy | University of Washington (UW) | Contact |
Sato, Kirk N. | University of Washington (UW) | Contact |
Rauch, Shannon | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI BCO-DMO) | BCO-DMO Data Manager |
Temperature and salinity recorded from 2018-2020 from a sensor array that measures pH, pCO2, temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll, turbidity, and current velocity at Friday Harbor Laboratories Ocean Observatory (FHLOO).
This version of this dataset is considered deprecated/obsolete. Please use the new dataset at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/826798
Data are collected from a CTD Sea-Bird MicroCAT 37 deployed at a floating dock at ~2-3 m water depth located at the University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories, Friday Harbor, WA (Lat = 48.5461, Long = -123.007). This dataset contains values of salinity and water temperature.
BCO-DMO Processing:
- concatenated separate data files (.txt) into one;
- added ISO 8601 date/time format;
- added latitude and longitude as columns; values originally provided in dataset metadata.
Parameter | Description | Units |
Date_PST | Date (local time zone, PST/PDT); format: MM/DD/YY | unitless |
Time_UTC | Time (UTC); format: hh:mm AM/PM | unitless |
Time_PST | Time (local time zone, PST/PDT); format: hh:mm AM/PM | unitless |
Sea_Temp | Water temperature | degrees Celsius |
Sal | Salinity | psu |
ISO_DateTime_UTC | Date and time (UTC) formatted to ISO 8601 standard; format: yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MMZ | unitless |
Latitude | Latitude of sampling location | degrees North |
Longitude | Longitude of sampling location (negative = west) | degrees East |
orig_file_name | Original file name | unitless |
Dataset-specific Instrument Name | Sea-Bird SBE37 |
Generic Instrument Name | CTD Sea-Bird MicroCAT 37 |
Dataset-specific Description | Sea-Bird SBE37 (temperature and salinity) |
Generic Instrument Description | The Sea-Bird MicroCAT CTD unit is a high-accuracy conductivity and temperature recorder based on the Sea-Bird SBE 37 MicroCAT series of products. It can be configured with optional pressure sensor, internal batteries, memory, built-in Inductive Modem, integral Pump, and/or SBE-43 Integrated Dissolved Oxygen sensor. Constructed of titanium and other non-corroding materials for long life with minimal maintenance, the MicroCAT is designed for long duration on moorings.
In a typical mooring, a modem module housed in the buoy communicates with underwater instruments and is interfaced to a computer or data logger via serial port. The computer or data logger is programmed to poll each instrument on the mooring for its data, and send the data to a telemetry transmitter (satellite link, cell phone, RF modem, etc.). The MicroCAT saves data in memory for upload after recovery, providing a data backup if real-time telemetry is interrupted. |
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Platform | Friday_Harbor |
Description | Friday Harbor Laboratories Ocean Observatory (FHLOO) located at the University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories, Friday Harbor WA. Data are collected from an array of sensors from a floating dock at ~2-3 m water depth.
Lat = 48.5461, Long = -123.007 |
Ocean change, including ocean acidification (OA), poses an unprecedented threat to oceanic and coastal ecosystems and to the societies that depend on them. The scale and complexity of the OA problem requires new spatially distributed data collection, and an integrated programmatic approach to OA research. The Salish Sea region, fed by waters of the Northeast Pacific, is particularly vulnerable to OA events associated with ocean upwelling and is already experiencing pH ranges that other areas will not see for many decades; commercial fisheries and shellfish aquaculture already appear to be affected or at risk. OA is further complicated in estuaries such as the Salish Sea by local processes including respiration, production, anoxia, and mixing, resulting in wide pH and pCO2 variation in time and space. Long-range plans for ocean change research at FHL focus on integrated ocean carbonate system observations, utilizing new advances in the development of ocean sensors and instruments, and incorporating biological response studies under laboratory and field conditions. Field conditions will be simulated using environmental and ecosystem modeling studies, and our findings will provide information for assessment of policy, and socio-economic responses.
Societal needs will be fully integrated with our research, merging the relevance of the problem and the need for human adaptation to OA. FHL will engage in knowledge transfer, with data and information flowing to and from policy makers, affected communities, scientists, and the general public. The shellfish aquaculture community will benefit economically from the new data and tribal governments will accrue benefits that could help sustain traditional food sources. The public will benefit through targeted education activities that improve general understanding of ocean processes and especially ocean acidification. UW and FHL will train a workforce that is ready to discover and deal with the impacts of OA and to realize adaptive responses that will allow affected industries and communities to thrive in the presence of this threat. Users include groups engaged in marine resource-based economies, members of coastal tribes, managers of marine resources, researchers in academic and government laboratories, and both formal and informal educators. FHL education programs reach broadly, from high school teachers and their students to undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. At the graduate level, FHL will prepare students for careers inside and outside of academia. Under represented minorities (URM) are fully integrated into FHL activities, with the objective of increasing their representation in oceanography, biology, fisheries and other OA and ocean-related fields. We will leverage existing programs (UW IGERT in Ocean Change, FHL Blinks and REU site programs, FHL Research Apprenticeships, NSF BEACON at UW) and create new programs to recruit, mentor, and prepare a community of URM students both on and off the university campus. We will expand our ongoing engagement of Native American students in ocean change research and education, near their own college campus (NWIC) and with their own instructors, in a culturally respectful way.
Funding Source | Award |
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NSF Division of Biological Infrastructure (NSF DBI) |