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Field Activity Details for field activity 12BHM03

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Other ID: none

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

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Water sampling of the Gulf of Mexico for carbon flux study

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL

End Port/Location: Pensacola, FL

Start Date: 2012-05-08

End Date: 2012-05-18

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

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

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Kira Barrera, Paul Knorr

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Travel Authorization was created through USOG (contractor Carl Taylor)

Location:

Gulf of Mexico

Boundaries
North: 30.54688711 South: 27.66958906 West: -89.9561 East: -82.24316406

Platform(s):

photo of Weatherbird II
Weatherbird II

Publications

Robbins, L.L., Knorr, P.O., Daly, K.L., Barrera, K.E., 2014, USGS field activities 12BHM01, 12BHM02, 12BHM03, 12BHM04, and 12BHM05 on the west Florida Shelf, in February, April, May, June, and August 2012: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 883, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds883.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) Logger/Probe --- CTD
Flow-Through Seawater Analyzer (pH) --- pH
Experiments (geochemical)
Surveys (geochemical)
2012_May_Aft_pH (Aft system pH)
Flow-Through Seawater Analyzer (pCO2) --- CO2
Experiments (geochemical)
Surveys (geochemical)
2012_May_Aft_CO2 (Aft system CO2)
Sonde sensor --- CO2
Temperature
pH
2012_May_Sonde (Sonde sensor data)
GPS --- Navigation
2012_May_Navigation (Survey Navigation)
Rosette --- Chemistry
2012_May_Discrete_Samples_Surface (Surface discrete samples)
2012_May_Discrete_Samples_Station (Station discrete samples)

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