Deployment: AE1102

2011-02-23 - 2011-03-07 Sargasso Sea, BATS site Platform:R/V Atlantic Explorer (vessel)

Description

This cruise was the first in a series of four cruises planned to study the trophic interactions and particle export during the winter season in the Sargasso Sea. The researchers focused on several sampling locations including an anticyclonic eddy, slope waters of the eddy, and repeated visits to the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series (BATS) study site.  The research focus for the cruise included phytoplankton production, microzooplankton grazing, mesozooplankton grazing and particle export.  This process cruise was designed to quantify stocks and rate processes in the Sargasso Sea food web. Work entailed CTD casts, over the stern deployment of in situ primary production arrays and surface tethered sediment traps.

Until 26 November 2012 this cruise was identified by BIOS and R2R as AE-X1101. On 26 November 2012, the cruise ID was corrected to AE1102.

Original cruise data are available from the NSF R2R data catalog

DatasetLatest Version DateCurrent State
Pigment concentrations (HPLC) from R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises AE1102, AE1118, AE1206, AE1219 in the Sargasso Sea, Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Station (BATS) from 2011-2012 (Trophic BATS project)2013-06-14Final no updates expected
ChemTax based chl-a of algal groups from R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises AE1102, AE1118, AE1206, AE1219 in the Sargasso Sea, Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Station (BATS) from 2011-2012 (Trophic BATS project)2013-06-14Final no updates expected
Size-fractioned primary production rates from samples collected on R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises AE1102, AE1118, AE1206, AE1219 in the Sargasso Sea Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Station in 2011-2012 (Trophic BATS project)2013-06-14Final no updates expected
Sediment trap flux collected from R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises AE1102, AE1118, AE1206, AE1219 in the Sargasso Sea, Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Station from 2011-2012 (Trophic BATS project)2013-05-01Final no updates expected
Biogeochemical and biological data from Niskin bottle samples from R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises AE1102, AE1118, AE1206, AE1219 in the Sargasso Sea, Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Station from 2011-2012 (Trophic BATS project)2013-05-21Final no updates expected
Abundance and biomass of ciliates from inverted microscope counts from samples taken on R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises AE1102, AE1118, AE1206, AE1219 in the Sargasso Sea, Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Station in 2011-2012 (Trophic BATS project)2013-08-22Final no updates expected
Abundance and biomass of protists from epifluorescence counts and bulk biomass from extracted chl-a from samples from R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises AE1102, AE1118, AE1206, AE1219 in the Sargasso Sea, Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Station in 2011-122015-01-13Final no updates expected
Protist rates from epifluorescence counts; cyanobacteria rates from flow cytometry; bulk rates from extracted chlorophyll-a from R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises AE1102, AE1118, AE1206, AE1219 in the Sargasso Sea, BATS, 2011-20122015-01-16Final no updates expected

People

Chief Scientist: Tammi Richardson
University of South Carolina

Synonyms

• Trophic BATS I

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