Alexander B. Bochdansky

Affiliation:

Address:

Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
4600 Elkhorn Ave.
Norfolk, VA
USA 23529

ORCiD:

Program coordination

None

Project coordination

Basin-scale distribution and activity of deep-sea protists in the North Atlantic Ocean (Basin-scale Protists)	Principal Investigator
TRacing the fate of Algal Carbon Export in the Ross Sea (TRACERS)	Principal Investigator
Ecology of eukaryote microbes in the deep North Atlantic (Eukaryote Microbes NAtl)	Principal Investigator, Contact
Collaborative Research: Transforming Carbon in the Deep Sea (Carbon in the Deep Sea)	Lead Principal Investigator
EAGER: Collaborative Research: NSF2026: Is Plastic Degradation Occurring in the Deep Ocean Water Column? (Deep Ocean Plastic Degradation)	Principal Investigator
Linking optical characteristics of small particles (50 - 500 micrometer) with their sinking velocities in the mesopelagic environment (Mesopelagic particles)	Principal Investigator, Contact
Adenosine triphosphate as a master variable for biomass in the oceanographic context (ATP biomass indicator)	Principal Investigator

Deployment coordination

Deployment	Synonyms	Platform	Role
64PE325	Archimedes IV	Pelagia	Principal Investigator

Datasets

Project: Linking optical characteristics of small particles (50 - 500 micrometer) with their sinking velocities in the mesopelagic environment

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Upper-pelagic particle numbers from imagery on the R/V Atlantic Explorer in the Sargasso Sea and from SCUBA in the Gulf of Trieste in July 2021 Principal Investigator, Contact	2022-12-28	Final no updates expected

Project: Collaborative Research: Transforming Carbon in the Deep Sea

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
ATP and cell numbers in laboratory experiments with Thalassiosira weissflogii conducted in 2019 Principal Investigator	2021-08-13	Final no updates expected
ATP and cell numbers in laboratory experiments with Thalassiosira weissflogii conducted in 2018 Principal Investigator	2021-08-12	Final no updates expected

Project: Ecology of eukaryote microbes in the deep North Atlantic

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
CARD FISH Eukaryote, Fungi, Labyrinthomycete, Kinetoplastid counts from MEDEA-II R/V Pelagia 64PE356 in the North Atlantic: Galway, Ireland to Reykjavik, Iceland from June to July 2012 Principal Investigator	2016-09-16	Final no updates expected
MEDEA-II stations for catalyzed reporter deposition fluorescence in situ hybridization (CARD FISH) samples collected on RV/Pelagia 64PE356i June-July 2012 (Eukaryote Microbes NAtl project) Principal Investigator	2016-09-16	Final no updates expected
Protist numbers in subtropical North Atlantic at and below 100 m collected on the R/V Pelagia (64PE356) from Galway, Ireland to Reykjavik, Iceland in 2010 (Eukaryote Microbes NAtl project) Principal Investigator	2015-08-31	Preliminary and in progress

Project: TRacing the fate of Algal Carbon Export in the Ross Sea

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Particle abundances and characteristics from the video plankton profiler with matching CTD data, from casts on RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer NBP1302, Feb/Mar 2013 (TRACERS project) Principal Investigator	2017-02-28	Final no updates expected
Phaeocystis colony counts from raw Digital Holographic Microscope images from casts on RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer NBP1302, March 2013 (TRACERS project) Principal Investigator	2017-02-28	Final no updates expected

Project: Basin-scale distribution and activity of deep-sea protists in the North Atlantic Ocean

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Niskin bottle data from R/V Pelagia 64PE325 in the subtropical Atlantic from October 2010 (Basin-scale Protists project) Principal Investigator	2013-11-15	Final no updates expected
Protist numbers at and below 100 m from R/V Pelagia 64PE280, 64PE325 in the tropical and subtropical N. Atlantic from 2007-2010 (Basin-scale Protists project) Principal Investigator	2013-11-13	Final no updates expected
CTD station log of R/V Pelagia 64PE280 in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic from 2007-2008 (Basin-scale Protists project) Contact	2013-11-02	Final no updates expected
Particle number depth profiles along a transect from R/V Pelagia 64PE280 in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic from 2007-2008 (Basin-scale Protists project) Principal Investigator	2013-11-02	Final no updates expected

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