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Field Activity Details for field activity 11BHM01

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Lisa Robbins

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Paul Knorr

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CO2, Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: pH, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Chemistry

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Establish baseline values for regional carbon flux between sea and air.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL

End Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL

Start Date: 2011-05-03

End Date: 2011-05-09

Equipment Used: Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) Logger/Probe, GPS , Rosette, Spectrophotometric Analytical System, Flow-Through Seawater Analyzer (pH) , Flow-Through Seawater Analyzer (pCO2), Sonde sensor

Information to be Derived: DIC, pCO2, pH, Alkalinity, d18O, d13C, dD, T, S, Chlorophyll.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Paul Knorr

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Additional Equipment Used: Laptop
Platform: R/V Weatherbird II (University of South Florida)

Location:

Offshore transect from Panama City to De Soto Canyon, FL and from Mobile Bay, AL to De Soto Canyon. Also transects from De Soto Canyon to St. Petersburg.

Boundaries
North: 30.68168659 South: 29.44460533 West: -88.076 East: -84.50538988

Platform(s):

photo of Weatherbird II
Weatherbird II

Publications

Robbins, L.L., Knorr, P.O., Daly, K.L., Taylor, C.A., Barrera, K.E., 2014, USGS field activities 11BHM01 and 11BHM02 on the west Florida shelf, Gulf of Mexico, May and June, 2011: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 712, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds712.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) Logger/Probe --- CTD
GPS --- Navigation
11BHM01-NL-pd-1 (Survey navigation)
Rosette --- Chemistry
11BHM01-EN-pd-5 (Station discrete samples)
11BHM01-EN-pd-4 (Surface discrete samples)
Spectrophotometric Analytical System --- pH
Flow-Through Seawater Analyzer (pH) --- pH
Experiments (geochemical)
Surveys (geochemical)
11BHM01-EN-pd-2 (Aft system pH)
Flow-Through Seawater Analyzer (pCO2) --- CO2
Experiments (geochemical)
Surveys (geochemical)
11BHM01-EN-pd-1 (Aft system CO2)
Sonde sensor --- CO2
Temperature
pH
11BHM01-EN-pd-6 (Sonde Measurements)

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