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Field Activity Details for field activity H-3-10-AR

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Other ID: 10AOA01

Status: Completed

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

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: CTD, Geochemical: Experiments (geochemical), Geochemical: Surveys (geochemical), Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Chemistry

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect baseline data relating to ocean acidification.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Dutch Harbor, AK

End Port/Location: Barrow, AK

Start Date: 2010-08-04

End Date: 2010-09-06

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

Information to be Derived: pH, Total alkalinity, dissolved inorganic carbon, carbonate

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Baseline data for ocean acidification monitoring

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Platform: USCG R/V Healy.

Location:

Arctic Ocean

Boundaries
North: 81.63663362 South: 68.5883925 West: 170.553 East: -133.47046196

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., Gove, M.D., Knorr, P.O., Wynn, J., Byrne, R.H., Liu, X., 2013, USGS Arctic Ocean carbon cruise 2010: Field activity H-3-10-AR to collect carbon data in the Arctic Ocean, August - September 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 741, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds741.

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
Rosette Sampler --- Chemistry
HLY1002_Isotopes (Isotope data)
HLY1002_Nutrients (Nutrients data)
HLY1002_Discrete_Lab (Discrete Sample Data (Laboratory))
HLY1002_Discrete_Underway (Discrete Sample Data (Underway))
Multi-Parameter Inorganic Carbon Analyzer (MICA) --- Experiments (geochemical)
Surveys (geochemical)
HLY1002_MICA (MICA data)
Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (CTD) Probe --- CTD
HLY1002_ctd_data (CTD Casts)
Water Sampler --- Chemistry
HLY1002_Underway_Data (Shipboard Sensors Data (Underway))
Global Positioning System (GPS) --- Navigation
shp (GIS (sample locations and ship tracklines))

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