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Field Activity Details for field activity 11AOA01

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Other ID: HLY1102; H-01-11-AR

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, University of South Florida

Funding Program(s): Arctic Research related to Ocean Acidification (MN00E5V)

Principal Investigator(s): Lisa Robbins, Kimberly Yates

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Geochemical: Experiments (geochemical), Geochemical: Surveys (geochemical), Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Chemistry

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To study the effects of ocean acidification in the Arctic Ocean.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Barrow, AK

End Port/Location: Dutch Harbor, AK

Start Date: 2011-08-11

End Date: 2011-09-28

Equipment Used: Multi-Parameter Inorganic Carbon Analyzer (MICA), Rosette, Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) Logger/Probe, GPS , Water Sampler

Information to be Derived: Total alkalinity, pH, dissolved inorganic carbon, pCO2 in air, pCO2 in water, oxygen and carbon isotopes, nutrients, dissolved and particulate organic carbon.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Paul Knorr

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Platform: USCG R/V Healy Jonathan Wynn is affiliated with the University of South Florida (USF).

Location:

Arctic Ocean

Boundaries
North: 76.05086 South: 69.8755398 West: -157.806405 East: -133.470467

Platform(s):

photo of Healy
Healy

Publications

Robbins, L.L., Wynn, J.G., Lisle, J., Yates, K.K., Knorr, P.O., Byrne, R., Liu, X., Patsavas, M., Azetsu-Scott, K., Takehashi, T., 2013, Baseline monitoring of the Western Arctic Ocean estimates 20% of Canadian Basin surface waters are undersaturated with respect to Aragonite: PLoS One, v. 8, e73796 p., doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073796.

Robbins, L.L., Yates, K.K., Knorr, P.O., Wynn, J., Lisle, J., Buczkowski, B., Moore, B., Mayer, L., Armstrong, A., Byrne, R.H., Liu, X., 2013, USGS Arctic Ocean carbon cruise 2011: Field activity H-01-11-AR to collect carbon data in the Arctic Ocean, August - September 2011: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 748, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds748.

Shen, Y., Benner, R., Robbins, L.L., Wynn, J., 2016, Sources, distributions, and dynamics of dissolved organic matter in the Canada and Makarov Basins: Frontiers in Marine Science, v. 3, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00198.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Multi-Parameter Inorganic Carbon Analyzer (MICA) --- Experiments (geochemical)
Surveys (geochemical)
11AOA01-GC-pd-2 (MICA data)
Rosette --- Chemistry
11AOA01-GC-pd-1 (Isotope data)
11AOA01-GC-pd-3 (Nutrients data)
11AOA01-EN-pd-4 (Discrete samples data (underway))
11AOA01-EN-pd-3 (Discrete samples data (lab))
Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) Logger/Probe --- CTD
11AOA01-EN-pd-1 (CTD casts)
GPS --- Navigation
11AOA01-EN-pd-2 (GIS (sample locations and ship tracklines))
Water Sampler --- Chemistry
11AOA01-EN-pd-5 (Shipboard sensor data (underway))

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