Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Biogeochemistry, groundwater monitoring, and environmental assessment (LQ000I4)
Principal Investigator(s): John Pohlman
Affiliate Investigator(s): David Brankovits, Texas A&M University at Galveston
Information Specialist(s): John Pohlman
Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: Depth, Environmental Data: Dissolved Oxygen, Environmental Data: Fluorescence, Environmental Data: Temperature, Sampling: Chemistry
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Recover dataloggers, osmosamplers and the Octopipi water sampler from coastal caves in the Yucatan Penisula Mexico
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Tulum/Playa Del Carmen Mexico
End Port/Location: Tulum/Playa Del Carmen Mexico
Start Date: 2016-01-18
End Date: 2016-01-24
Equipment Used: osmosampler, OctoPiPi water sampler, YSI EXO2 Multi-parameter Sonde, Water sampler
Information to be Derived: Geochemical data from anchialine caves
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Recovered dataloggers, osmosamplers, and the Octopipi water sampler from coastal caves in the Yucatan Penisula, Mexico.
Staff: John Pohlman
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
Tulum/Playa Del Carmen Mexico
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 20.28293751 | South: 20.10841783 | West: -87.5693 | East: -87.41655884 |
Platform(s):
 on foot |
Brankovits, D., Pohlman, J.W., 2020, Methane oxidation dynamics in a karst subterranean estuary: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 277, p. 320-333, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2020.03.007.
Brankovits, D., and Pohlman, J.W., 2020, Vertical chemical profiles collected across haloclines in the water column of the Ox Bel Ha cave network within the coastal aquifer of the Yucatan Peninsula in January 2015 and January 2016: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9N4H6Y4.
Brankovits, D., Pohlman, J.W., Mann, A.G., and Lapham, L.L., 2018, Temporal hydrologic and chemical records from the Ox Bel Ha cave network within the coastal aquifer of the Yucatan Peninsula, from January 2015 to January 2016: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9U0KRVM.
Pohlman, J.W., and Brankovits, David, 2017, Water column physical and chemical properties of Cenote Bang, a component of the Ox Bel Ha cave network within the subterranean estuary coastal aquifer of the Yucatan Peninsula, from December 2013 to January 2016: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7DJ5DJW.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| osmosampler | --- | Chemistry | |
| OctoPiPi water sampler | --- | Chemistry | |
| YSI EXO2 Multi-parameter Sonde | --- | Chlorophyll Conductivity Depth Dissolved Oxygen Fluorescence Nitrate ORP pH Temperature Turbidity | |
| Water sampler | --- | Chemistry | Vertical chemical profiles collected across haloclines in the water column of the Ox Bel Ha cave network within the coastal aquifer of the Yucatan Peninsula in January 2015 and January 2016 (Discrete water samples collected during 2016-003-FA.) |
