TITLE OF DATASET
Heterotrophic Bacteria and Protists in the Upper Water Column of the Central
Arctic Ocean

DATA ORGANIZATION
The directory structure is outlined below:

File name     File Type   Description
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sumdata.xls   MS Excel    Data summary giving station locations, and
sumdata.txt   comma-      comparing results on bacteria and protists 
              separated   with concentrations of organic matter, 
              values text chlorophyll-a, and zooplankton in the upper 
              (csv)       water column

aosbac.xls    MS Excel    Data by station and depth of bacterial abundance
aosbac_                   and carbon biomass
 abundchla.txt csv text  
 bacbio.txt    csv text
 bacprod.txt   csv text

aosprot.xls   MS Excel    Data by station and depth of protist abundance
aosprot.txt   csv text    and carbon biomass in three different size
                          fractions

aostax.xls    MS Excel    Abundance data separated into general taxonomic
aostax.txt    csv text    categories of heterotrophic protists

cildino.xls   MS Excel    Comparison of abundance and biomass of 
cildino.txt   csv text    heterotrophic ciliates and heterotrophic
                          dinoflagellates 

REFERENCES:

Sherr, Evelyn B., Sherr, Barry F., and Lynne Fessenden.  1997.
  Heterotrophic protists in the Central Arctic Ocean.  Deep-Sea
  Research II, 44(8): 1665-1682.

Rich, J., Gosselin, M., Sherr, E., Sherr, B., and Kirchman, D.L.  1997.  
  High bacterial production, uptake and concentrations of dissolved 
  organic matter in the Central Arctic Ocean.  Deep-Sea Research II, 
  44(8): 1645-1663.
  
Wheeler, P.A., Watkins, J.M., and R.L. Hansing.  1997.  Nutrients, organic
  carbon and organic nitrogen in the upper water column of the Arctic 
  Ocean: implications for the sources of dissolved organic carbon.  Deep-
  Sea Research II, 44(8): 1571-1592.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Funding for this project was granted by the National Science Foundation 
Arctic System Science Program, Grant NSF OPP-9400218.