| Organismal physiological metrics from time series experiments on samples collected on R/V Atlantic Explorer cruise AE1910 in May 2019 | Daytime tows (morning and afternoon) were conducted using a 1-m² MOCNESS with 150 um mesh size and a custom thermally-insulated closing cod with one closing net sampling from 400-600 m.
| 1-m2 MOCNESS |
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| Biomass by organism size fraction and depth interval from cruises TT007, TT008, TT011, TT012 in the Equatorial Pacific in 1992 during the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) project | | MOCNESS |
| BIOS-SCOPE survey biogeochemical data as collected on Atlantic Explorer cruises (AE1614, AE1712, AE1819, AE1916) from 2016 through 2019 | Mesozooplankton sampling will be carried out seasonally via a Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System (MOCNESS) equipped with 200 µm nets during the mid-day and mid-evening.
| MOCNESS |
| CTD data collected from MOCNESS hauls on R/V Atlantis II, R/V Knorr, R/V Chain, and R/V Endeavor in the Sargasso Sea, Slope Water and Northern Sargasso Sea from 1974-1981 (NAtlDarkData project) | | MOCNESS |
| Sampling data from Gelatinous Zooplankton project from R/V Hugh R. Sharp multiple cruises in Chesapeake Bay from 2010-2011 (DeZoZoo project) | | MOCNESS |
| Zooplankton displacement volumes, MOCNESS net tows from RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer cruises: NBP-96-4, NBP-96-4A, NBP-97-1, NBP-97-3 in the Southern Ocean in 1997 (U.S. JGOFS AESOPS project) | MOCNESS (Multiple Opening and Closing Nets Envionment Sampling System)
| MOCNESS |
| Mesopelagic micronekton abundances from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill area, collected from the R/V Weatherbird II WB1105, WB1205 cruises in the Gulf of Mexico, from 2010-2011 (DWH Micronekton project) | Day tows will use the MOC-4 exclusively and will be in the upper 1000m of the water column.
| MOCNESS |
| Counts of larval fishes collected by a 4m2 MOCNESS in a subtropical, pelagic environment from R/V F.G. Walton Smith cruises WS1406 and WS15161 in the Straits of Florida in 2014 and 2015 (OSTRICH) | Larval fishes were collected at each station using a Multiple Opening Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System (MOCNESS, http://www.whoi.edu/instruments/viewInstrument.do?id=10008) with a 4m2 opening and 1mm mesh nets (MOC4).
| MOC4 |
| Foram species abundances from MOCNESS tows from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruises TT007, TT011 in the Equatorial Pacific in 1992 during the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) project | | MOCNESS |
| Gelatinous zooplankton observations during four research cruises (SKQ202204S, MGL2207, SKQ202303S, SR2317) carried out in the Northern California Current from March 2022 to August 2023 | Multiple Opening-Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System (MOCNESS). The nets had opening of 1m2 and 4m2 with mesh sizes of 333µm and 1000µm, respectively.
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| Mercury stable isotope values for zooplankton collected during R/V Kilo Moana cruises KM1418 and KM1506 around Station ALOHA in 2014 and 2015 | Zooplankton was collected using a multiple opening-closing net and environmental sensing system (MOCNESS). The cod ends were fitted with a 200 micron mesh.
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| Ichthyoplankton density and plankton displacement volume data collected using MOCNESS plankton nets on the NSF RAPID Plankton Cruises in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico in 2017-2018 | MOCNESS Plankton Net (1x2m), equipped with 10 nets of 333um mesh widths, in situ CTD and online flowmeters. Nets # 1, 5, and 7 were analyzed for this dataset.
| MOCNESS Plankton Net (1x2m) |
| Larval fish identifications and concentration (individuals per 1000m3) estimates for all day samples. | A coupled Multiple Opening and Closing Net Environmental Sensing System (MOCNESS) consisting of a 4m2 net fitted with 1 mm mesh and a 1 m2 net with 333 μm mesh was used.
| Multiple Opening and Closing Net Environmental Sensing System (MOCNESS) |
| Standard length measurements of a representative subset of northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax) and Stenobrachius leucopsarus collected with MOCNESS during winter and summer sampling in 2019 aboard R/V Sikuliaq, R/V Sally Ride and R/V Atlantis | We used a coupled Multiple Opening and Closing Net Environmental Sensing System (MOCNESS) consisting of a 4m2 net fitted with 1 mm mesh and a 1 m2 net with 333 μm mesh
| Multiple Opening and Closing Net Environmental Sensing System |
| Mesozooplankton grazing rates from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruises TT007, TT011 in the Equatorial Pacific in 1992 during the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) project | | MOCNESS |
| Amino acid compound specific isotope values for micronekton from R/V Kilo Moana KM1109, KM1123, KM1407, KM1418, and other cruises in the Central North Pacific, Station ALOHA, Tropical Pacific, 2007-2014 | Used to collect micronekton at specific depth strata.
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| Eukaryotic and prokaryotic microbial taxa retained by wild-caught doliolids collected during bloom events at three different shelf locations in the northern California Current system in June 2019. | | MOCNESS for animal collection |
| High-throughput sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene, microscopy, and flow cytometry of pyrosome-associated microorganisms compared to seawater sampled during a Pyrosoma atlanticum bloom in the Northern California Current System in July 2018. | | MOCNESS for animals |
| MOCNESS tow zooplankton abundance estimates from R/V New Horizon cruise NH1008 in Monterey Bay, near MBARI buoy M1 (36.747?N, 122.022?W); 2010 (GATEKEEPERS project) | Samples were collected using a 1-m2 MOCNESS net with 202-micron-mesh nets, pressure sensor and flowmeter. Tow speed was generally 0.5-1 m sec-1. Only those samples from selected net openings were analyzed and only data from those analyses are provided. In general, for each MOCNESS deployment, samples from 3-5 nets opened and closed sequentially from the lowest depth (zl, m) to the shallowest, or upper, depth (zu, m) were analyzed
| MOCNESS |
| Date, time, location, and depth range for MOCNESS tows from the R/V Seward Johnson, R/V Knorr in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific from 2007-10-25 to 2009-01-01 | 1 m2 MOCNESS
| MOCNESS |
| Date, time, location, and depth range for MOCNESS tows from R/V Oceanus in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, Tropical Eastern Pacific from 2016-04-17 to 2016-05-02 | 1 m2 MOCNESS
| MOCNESS |
| Multiple Opening and Closing Net Environmental Sampling System (MOCNESS) water filtering volumes from 2018 and 2019 taken in the Northern California Current waters. | The MOCNESS systems consists of a 4m2 net fitted with 1 mm mesh and a 1 m2 net with 150 μm mesh (Guigand et al. 2005). The former is referred to as the Moc4 and the latter the Moc1. The Moc4 and Moc1 each have 5 nets (numbered 0-4) to sample discrete depths.
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| MOCNESS tow physical parameter data from R/V New Horizon cruise NH1008 in Monterey Bay, near MBARI buoy M1 (36.747?N, 122.022?W); 2010 (GATEKEEPERS project) | | MOCNESS |
| MOCNESS tow depths of zooplankton & fecal pellet preserved samples from R/V New Horizon cruise NH1008 in Monterey Bay, near MBARI buoy M1 (36.747?N, 122.022?W); 2010 (GATEKEEPERS project) | | MOCNESS |
| Hand-written MOC-1 'flyer' notes, screen captures of tows, and taxonomic composition notes from RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer NBP0103, NBP0104, NBP0202, NBP0204 in the Southern Ocean from 2001-2002 (SOGLOBEC project) | The MOCNESS-1 plankton sampler has nine rectangular nets (1m x 1.4 m) with a mesh size of 0.333 mm, which are opened and closed sequentially by commands through conducting cable from the surface (Wiebe et al., 1976).
| MOCNESS |
| Sarcodine counts and carbon biomass, from net tows from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruises TT008, TT012 in the Equatorial Pacific in 1992 during the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) project | | MOCNESS |
| Optical Plankton Counter data, MOCNESS Tows from RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer cruises: NBP-96-4, NBP-96-4A, NBP-97-1, NBP-97-3 in the Southern Ocean in 1997 (U.S. JGOFS AESOPS project) | MOCNESS (Multiple Opening and Closing Nets Envionment Sampling System)
| MOCNESS |
| Optical Plankton Counter data - SEASOAR Tows from R/V Roger Revelle KIWI6, KIWI8 cruises in the Southern Ocean, 1998 (U.S. JGOFS AESOPS project) | MOCNESS (Multiple Opening and Closing Nets Envionment Sampling System)
| MOCNESS |
| Zooplankton data from the Optical Plankton Counter (OPC) on a MOCNESS from RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, ARSV Laurence M. Gould NBP0104, LMG0104, LMG0203, NBP0204 in the Southern Ocean from 2001-2002 (SOGLOBEC project) | | MOCNESS |
| Particles and Zooplankton Amino Acid Compound Specific Isotope Analyses (AA-CSIA) and zooplankton biomass at Station ALOHA and the Equatorial Pacific from R/V Kilo Moana cruises KM1407, KM1418, & KM1515 from 2014-2015 | Multiple opening-closing net and environmental sensing system (MOCNESS; Wiebe et al. 1976) net with 1 m2 opening using 0.2 mm mesh plankton nets.
| 1-m2 MOCNESS |
| Seasonal hydrography, abundance, and distribution of pteropods from MOCNESS and CTD casts during R/V Tioga cruises in the Gulf of Maine from 2013 to 2015 | | |
| Pteropod respiration rates from NW Atlantic and NE Pacific; OC473 (2011) and NH1208 (2012) | MOCNESS-1 m^2 wtih 150 micron mesh.
| MOCNESS |
| Pteropod shell dissolution in natural and high-CO2 environments from samples collected on RRS James Clark Ross cruise JR177 in the Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean from 2007-2008 | Pteropods were collected using a combination of vertically and obliquely towed Bongo nets and MOCNESS nets
| MOCNESS |
| Pyrosome (Pyrosoma atlanticum) samples from MOCNESS tows in the Northern California Current | Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing Systems (MOCNESS) fitted with a 4 m2 net with 1 mm mesh and a 1 m2 net with 333 µm mesh.
| Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing Systems (MOCNESS) |
| Polycystine Radiolarian from 64 ?m MOCNESS tows from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruises TT007, TT011 in the Equatorial Pacific in 1992 during the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) project | | MOCNESS |
| Size fractionated zooplankton, C:N, d13C, and d15N from RRS James Cook cruise JC214 | Multiple opening-closing net and environmental sensing system (MOCNESS) net with 1 m2 opening using 0.2 mm mesh plankton nets (see Wiebe et al., 1976)
| MOCNESS |
| Event log from R/V Sikuliaq SKQ201701S from January to February 2017 | MOCNESS (Wishner: Multiple Opening Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System (Wiebe et al. 1985), 1 m2 system, 8 or 9 nets, 222 µm mesh, updated software and Sea-Bird SBE911plusCTD system (SIO upgrades), day and night vertically- stratified and horizontally-sequenced tows, Wishner et al. 2018)
| MOCNESS |
| Zooplankton data from MOCNESS samples (Excel files) from R/V Roger Revelle cruises: KIWI6 and KIWI8 in the Southern Ocean in 1998 (U.S. JGOFS AESOPS project) | | MOCNESS |
| Abundance of zooplankton identified by major taxa from R/V Atlantis, R/V Knorr, R/V Melville AT21-04, KN197-08, MV1110 in the Amazon River plume; NE coast of South America from 2010-2012 (ANACONDAS project) | Zooplankton abundance was determined using a 1-m2, 202-micron mesh MOCNESS (Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System) towed through the upper 150 m or occasionally the upper 500 m of the water column
| MOCNESS |
| Size-fractionated zooplankton biomass in upper 150m or 500m from R/V Atlantis, R/V Knorr, and R/V Melville cruises AT21-04, KN197-08, and MV1110 in the Amazon River plume; NE coast of South America from 2010-2012 | Biomass was determined using a 1-m2, 202-micron mesh MOCNESS (Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System) towed through the upper 150 m or occasionally the upper 500 m of the water column.
| MOCNESS |
| Zooplankton biovolumes from R/V Connecticut, SSV Corwith Cramer, CT2010, C223A, C230A, C235A, C241A from Atlantis and Veatch Canyons, Atlantic Ocean from 2009-2012 (Canyon Krill project) | 1 m^2 MOCNESS with 335 micron mesh, 9 nets.
| MOCNESS |
| Size fractionated zooplankton d13C and d15N of individual amino acids from EXPORTS cruise RR1813 in August 2018 | Multiple opening-closing net and environmental sensing system (MOCNESS) net with 1 m2 opening using 0.2 mm mesh plankton nets (see Wiebe, P. H., K. H. Burt, S. H. Boyd and A. W. Morton (1976) A multiple opening/closing net and environmental sensing system for sampling zooplankton. Journal of Marine Research 34:313-326.)
| Multiple opening-closing net and environmental sensing system (MOCNESS) |
| Zooplankton displacement volumes from MOCNESS tows from R/V Endeavor EN484, EN487 in the Gulf of Maine, 2010 (Krill GoME project) | 1m^2 MOCNESS with 9 nets, 330 micron mesh.
| MOCNESS |
| Size-fractionated zooplankton gut fluorescence for determination of grazing from R/V Atlantis, R/V Knorr, R/V Melville AT21-04, KN197-08, MV1110 in the Amazon River plume; NE coast of South America from 2010-2012 (ANACONDAS project) | Zooplankton tows were performed using a 1-m2, 202-micron mesh MOCNESS (Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System) towed through the upper 150 m or occasionally the upper 500 m of the water column.
| MOCNESS |
| Zooplankton taxonomic data from MOCNESS and IONESS tows from VERTIGO cruises KM0414, ZHNG09RR from the Hawaiian Islands HOT Site, NW SubArctic Pacific Ocean K2 Site, 2004-2005 (VERTIGO project) | | MOCNESS |
| ZooSCAN biovolume to biomass from imaged zooplankton collected during MOCNESS tows during various R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises and small boat deployments in the Sargasso Sea betwen 2016 to 2019 | | 1m MOCNESS |
| ZooSCAN images of zooplankton collected during BATS MOCNESS tows during R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises AE1614, AE1712, AE1830, and AE1819 in the vicinity of the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study from 2016 to 2018 | | 1m MOCNESS |
| ZooSCAN output from of imaged zooplankton collected during BATS MOCNESS tows during R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises AE1614, AE1712, AE1830, and AE1819 in the vicinity of the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study from 2016 to 2018 | | 1m MOCNESS |
| Zooplankton carbon by size fractions per net from MOCNESS tows from R/V Thomas G. Thompson TT043, TT045, TT050, TT054 cruises in the Arabian Sea in 1995 (U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea project) | | MOCNESS |
| Zooplankton carbon by size fractions from MOCNESS net tows from R/V Thomas G. Thompson TT043, TT045, TT050, TT054 cruises in the Arabian Sea in 1995 (U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea project) | | MOCNESS |
| Zooplankton carbon by size fractions from MOCNESS tows from R/V Thomas G. Thompson TT043, TT045, TT050, TT054 cruises in the Arabian Sea in 1995 (U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea project) | | MOCNESS |
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