Project: Census of Marine Zooplankton-2004-2010

Acronym/Short Name:

CMarZ_2004-2010

Project URL:

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Start Date:

2004-01

End Date:

2010-01

Geolocation:

Global ocean

Programs:

Census of Marine Life [CoML]

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Description

The Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ) is a field project of the Census of Marine Life (see www.CoML.org). CMarZ is working toward a taxonomically comprehensive assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world ocean. The project goal is to produce accurate and complete information on zooplankton species diversity, biomass, biogeographical distribution, genetic diversity, and community structure by 2010. Our taxonomic focus is the animals that drift with ocean currents throughout their lives (i.e., the holozooplankton, Fig. 1). This assemblage currently includes ~6,800 described species in fifteen phyla; our expectation is that at least that many new species will be discovered as a result of our efforts. The census encompasses unique marine environments and those likely to be inhabited by endemic and undescribed zooplankton species.

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Funding

Funding Source	Award Number
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation	unknown CMarZ_2004-2010 Sloan

Dataset Collections

Dataset Short Name	Full Dataset Title
alongtrack	Positions along the ship's track of NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown cruise RHB0603 in the Sargasso Sea and Southeast North Atlantic Ocean in 2006 as part of the Census of Marine Life (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
alongtrack_PS	Alongtrack data from R/V Polarstern ANT-XXIV_1 from October to November 2007 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
alongtrack_RHB_d	Depth data along the cruise track from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown RHB0603 in the Sargasso Sea and Southeast North Atlantic Ocean from April 2006 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
alongtrack_RHB_m	Meteorological and flow-through data along the cruise track from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown RHB0603 in the Sargasso Sea and Southeast North Atlantic Ocean from April 2006 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
alongtrack_RHB_w	Wind data along the track from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown RHB0603 in the Sargasso Sea and Southeast North Atlantic Ocean from April 2006 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
CTD_MOCNESS.25	CTD data from the 0.25m2 MOCNESS tows, including ancillary tow information, from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown cruise RHB0603 in the Sargasso Sea and Southeast North Atlantic Ocean in 2006 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
CTD_MOCNESS1	CTD data from the CMarZ 1m2 MOCNESS tows and ancillary tow infomation from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown and R/V Polarstern RHB0603 in the Sargasso Sea and Southeast North Atlantic Ocean from 2006-2007 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
CTD_MOCNESS10	CTD data from the CMarZ 10m2 MOCNESS tows and ancillary tow info from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown and R/V Polarstern in the Sargasso Sea and Southeast North Atlantic Ocean from 2006-2007 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
Diver-collected jellies RHB-0603	Diver-collected jellies from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown RHB0603 in the Sargasso Sea from April 2006 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
eventlogs	Cruise eventlogs (metadata) from R/V Polarstern cruise ANT-XXIV_1 to the Southeast Atlantic and NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown cruise RHB0603 to the Sargasso Sea in 2006 and 2007 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
inventory	Inventory of 31 Census of Marine Zooplankton Cruises from 2001 to 2007 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
MOCNESS_tabs_PS24	MOCNESS Summary Data from R/V Polarstern ANT-XXIV_1 (PS24-1) from October to November 2007 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
pangaea_zoo	Multinet zooplankton data from R/V Polarstern (ANT-XII_2) in the Western Weddell Sea from 2004-2005 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
RHB_ostracods	Ostracod species from the Sargasso Sea collected on NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown (RHB0603) in April 2006 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
spp_barcodes	Species barcodes and other genetic data from globally collected calanoid copepods and euphausiids from the CMarZ database as part of the Census of Marine Life program (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
tow_photos_PS24	Photographs of net collections before any picking from R/V Polarstern (ANT-XXIV_1) from October to November 2007 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
tow_photos_rhb	Photographs of net collections before any picking from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown (RHB0603) in the Sargasso Sea and Southeast North Atlantic Ocean from April 2006 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
winch_RHB	Traction Winch readings from MOCNESS tows from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown RHB0603 in the Sargasso Sea and Southeast North Atlantic Ocean from April 2006 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
zoop_ANT-XXIV_1	Zooplankton identified in the Eastern Atlantic from R/V Polarstern ANT-XXIV_1 from November 2007 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)
zoop_RHB0603	Zooplankton species identified from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown RHB0603 in the Sargasso Sea and Southeast North Atlantic Ocean from 2006-2006 (CMarZ_2004-2010 project)

Deployments

Total: 3

Cruise/Deployment	Platform Type	Start Date	Chief/Co-chief Scientist
ANT-XII_2	vessel	01 Dec 2004	Michael Spindler
ANT-XXIV_1	vessel	26 Oct 2007	Sigi Schiel
RHB0603	vessel	10 Apr 2006	Peter H. Wiebe

Project Coordinators

Person	Roles	Affiliation
Ann Bucklin	Lead Principal Investigator	University of Connecticut (UConn - Avery Point)
Ms Dicky Allison	BCO-DMO Data Manager	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI BCO-DMO)
Robert C. Groman	BCO-DMO Data Manager	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI BCO-DMO)

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