| Identifier | 2018-357-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Lake Enriquillo, located in the Dominican Republic, is an important location to examine ocean-continent interactions due to its remote location far from anthropogenic influences. Lake Enriquillo is a hypersaline lake, which leads to excellent sediment preservation, and is situated to record the balance of evaporation and precipitation. The purpose of this trip is to collect sediment samples from Lake Enriquillo for organic geochemical analyses. These geochemical analyses include faunal assemblages, alkane biomarkers, alkenone sea surface temperature reconstruction, and analysis of lipids (dinosterol). Additional water samples will be collected over a depth profile and analyzed for salinity, pH, total alkalinity, and oxygen isotopes. The ultimate goal is to reconstruct temperature, evaporation, and precipitation patterns over the past few centuries. | ||||||||
| Location | Dominican Republic, Lake Enriquillo | ||||||||
| Summary | Water samples from Lake Enriquillo. Ponar sediment samples from Lake Enriquillo. Depth and YSI information of Lake Enriquillo. | ||||||||
| Info derived | water samples: salinity, pH, total alkalinity, and oxygen isotopes sediment samples: faunal assemblages, alkane biomarkers, alkenone sea surface temperature reconstruction, and analysis of lipids. | ||||||||
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| Vehicles | Chevy Suburban Silver |
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600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
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| Principal investigators | Julie N Richey | ||
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| Data category: | Environmental Data, Sampling |
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| Data type: | CTD, Depth, Dissolved Oxygen, pH, Sediment Properties, Temperature, Biology, Chemistry, Geology |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) Logger/Probe | CTD | (no data reported) | |
| YSI Professional Plus multiparameter meter | Conductivity, Depth, Dissolved Oxygen, Nitrate, ORP, pH, Temperature | (no data reported) | |
| Other | Unknown, Meteorology, CTD, Temperature, pH, CO2, Radon, Conductivity, Current, Dissolved Oxygen, Turbidity, Fluorescence, Wave, ORP, Tide, Methane, Depth, Light, Nitrate, Gas Hydrates, Density, Sediment Properties, Osmometic Pressure, Chlorophyll, Nutrients, Pressure | (no data expected) | |
| Other | Unknown, Geology, Biology, Chemistry | (no data expected) | |
| Grab Sampler | The ponar grab sampler was used to collect sediment from the bottom of Lake Enriquillo from multiple locations throughout the lake. | Biology, Geology | (no data reported) |