DY 14-06 SeaCAT Data

The primary objective was to conduct an assessment of eggs and larvae of Walleye Pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) over the eastern Bering Sea shelf. The data collected will be used to examine the interactions among climate, weather, and ichthyoplankton distribution and abundance. This work is needed to describe larval fish assemblages and determine how physical and biological factors affect the transport and survival of fish larvae. The survey is a collaboration between two Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) programs, Ecosystems and Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (Eco-FOCI), and Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment (EMA). A SBE 49 was deployed synoptically with Bongo, CalVET and Tucker trawls used to sample icythoplankton and zooplankton at selected stations. Temperature and Conductivity were measured and Salinity and Sigma-T were derived from these measurements. While the SeaCAT measures values on the down and upcasts, only the upcasts are used.

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Metadata Date

2024-05-22

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  • OPeNDAP
Distributor NOAA/NMFS/AFSC
Point of Contact Steve Porter
NOAA/NMFS/AFSC
Steve.Porter@noaa.gov
Online Resource
Originator Steve Porter
NOAA/NMFS/AFSC
Steve.Porter@noaa.gov
Online Resource
Scientist
Dataset Point of Contact Tiffany C. Vance
Tiffany.C.Vance@noaa.gov
General Documentation
Associated Documentation AFSC/Eco-FOCI/EMA
Date(s) creation: 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z
issued: 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z
Use Limitations There are no legal restrictions on access to the data. They reside in public domain and can be freely distributed. User must read and fully comprehend the metadata prior to use. Applications or inferences derived from the data should be carefully considered for accuracy. Data will reside at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center. Acknowledgement of NOAA/NMFS/AFSC, as the source from which these data were obtained in any publications and/or other representations of these, data is suggested.
Time Period 2014-05-27T23:15:00Z to 2014-05-28T00:50:00Z
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates N: 59.3025° S: 53.9765° E: -160.412° W: -173.024°
Theme keywords GCMD Earth Science Keywords. Version 5.3.3
  • Temperature
  • conductivity
  • salinity
  • sigma-t
  • biological data
  • zooplankton
  • plankton
  • fish larvae
  • 60 cm bongo
  • oceanographic data
  • SBE 49
  • walleye pollock
  • Eastern Bering Sea
  • North Pacific

NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Convention Standard Name Table v27
  • sea_water_pressure
  • sea_water_temperature
  • sea_water_electrical_conductivity
  • sea_water_practical_salinity
  • sea_water_sigma_theta
  • latitude
  • longitude
  • depth
  • time
Data Center keywords Uncategorized
  • Tiffany C. Vance
Project keywords Uncategorized
  • AFSC/Eco-FOCI/EMA
Use Constraints There are no legal restrictions on access to the data. They reside in public domain and can be freely distributed. User must read and fully comprehend the metadata prior to use. Applications or inferences derived from the data should be carefully considered for accuracy. Data will reside at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center. Acknowledgement of NOAA/NMFS/AFSC, as the source from which these data were obtained in any publications and/or other representations of these, data is suggested.
Lineage Statement NetCDF generated by Axiom from excel file provided by Tiffany Vance, NOAA.
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