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    "tag": 18599,
    "title": "MS_AL_Cores_XYZ_metadata: Benthic foraminiferal data from sedimentary cores collected in the Grand Bay (Mississippi) and Dauphin Island (Alabama) salt marshes",
    "pubdate": "20180417",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "doi.org\/10.5066\/F7445KSG",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/spcmsc\/MS_AL_Cores_XYZ_metadata.faq.html",
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    "descript": "Microfossil (benthic foraminifera) data from coastal areas were collected from state and federally managed lands within the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Grand Bay, Mississippi\/Alabama; federally managed lands of Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge on Cedar Island and Little Dauphin Island, Alabama; and municipally managed land around Dauphin Island, Alabama. Samples were analyzed and quantified for foraminiferal census in order to document changes to the coastal wetlands, estuarine environments, and to aid in paleoenvironmental reconstruction. These data provide a baseline dataset for use in future wetland change descriptive and predictive studies and assessments. The data presented here were collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey\u2019s Sea-level and Storm Impacts on Estuarine Environments and Shorelines (SSIEES) project (https:\/\/coastal.er.usgs.gov\/ssiees), Barrier Island Evolution Research (BIER) project (https:\/\/coastal.er.usgs.gov\/bier), and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation-funded Alabama Barrier Island Restoration Feasibility Study (a collaborative study between the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Mobile District; the State of Alabama; and the USGS [https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/centers\/spcmsc\/science\/alabama-barrier-island-restoration-study]). These projects aim to assess ecological and societal vulnerability that results from long- and short-term physical changes to barrier islands and coastal wetlands. Two sampling surveys were conducted between 2014 and 2015: 14CCT01 (15\u201319 September 2014; 2014-323-FA), and 15BIM09 (18\u201320 August 2015; 2015-322-FA). During those two trips, seven Russian peat auger cores were taken from marsh locations. Three cores from Dauphin Island were subsampled and stained with rose Bengal (rB) in the field to indicate life. Four further cores from Dauphin Island and Grand Bay were not stained. At the St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center all cores were subsampled resulting in a total of 74 subsamples. Samples were processed in the laboratory to four size fractions (63\u2013125 \u03bcm, 125\u2013250 \u03bcm, 250\u2013850 \u03bcm, and >850 \u03bcm), of which the 125\u2013250 \u03bcm and 250\u2013850 \u03bcm fractions were picked at equal proportions of total sample and reported combined (125\u2013850 \u03bcm). For additional information regarding foraminiferal collection and\/or processing methods, refer to Ellis and others (2017). Further data collected on and surrounding Dauphin Island is presented in Ellis and others (2017) and Ellis and others (2018).",
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Haller, Christian",
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        {
            "name": "Smith, Christopher G.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "McCloskey, Terrance A.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Adams, C. Scott",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Marot, Marci E.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ellis, Alisha M.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
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            "code": "311",
            "name": "ecology",
            "scope": "Study of the relations between living plants and animals and their environment."
        },
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            "code": "358",
            "name": "estuarine ecosystems",
            "scope": "Biological communities and habitats within sea inlets or the zones where rivers meet the seas which are subject to tidal effects and the mixture of fresh and saltwater."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "414",
            "name": "fossils",
            "scope": "Recognizable remains such as bones, shells, leaves, burrows, impressions, or tracks of past life on the earth."
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            "name": "geology",
            "scope": "Study of the planet earth, its composition, structure, physical and chemical processes, and history since its origin."
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            "name": "micropaleontology",
            "scope": "Branch of paleontology dealing with fossils too small to be seen without a microscope."
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            "code": "940",
            "name": "protists",
            "scope": "Unicellular eukaryotes (organisms possessing nucleated cells) with affinities to both plants and animals. Classed in the Protista or Potoctista kingdom, they include protozoans, foraminifera, radiolarians, fungi and some algae."
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            "name": "unconsolidated deposits",
            "scope": "Loosely bound sediments such as sand, gravel, and silt which tend to accumulate in low areas or valleys."
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            "name": "biota",
            "scope": "Flora or fauna in natural environment, for example wildlife, vegetation, biological sciences, ecology, wilderness, sea life, wetlands, habitat, biological resources"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "006",
            "name": "elevation",
            "scope": "Height above or below sea level, for example altitude, bathymetry, digital elevation models, slope, derived products, DEMs, TINs"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "008",
            "name": "geoscientificInformation",
            "scope": "Information pertaining to earth sciences, for example geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth's rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, groundwater, erosion"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "013",
            "name": "location",
            "scope": "Positional information and services, for example addresses, geodetic networks, geodetic control points, postal zones and services, place names, geographic names"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        }
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    "fan": [
        "13BIM01",
        "2014-323-FA",
        "2015-322-FA",
        "2016-331-FA"
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