Chukchi Sea Offshore Monitoring in Drilling Area (COMIDA): Chemical and Benthos (CAB) [Dunton] https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/255.013 Summary The Chukchi Sea Offshore Monitoring in Drilling Area (COMIDA) Chemical and Benthos (CAB) is a comprehensive program funded by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) that is designed to establish an integrated knowledge of this biologically productive and diverse ecosystem. The CAB component addresses the benthic system with a particular emphasis on sediment chemical characteristics and the benthic biota, both infaunal and epifaunal. Objectives include: 1. To establish baseline data set for benthic infauna and epifauna, organic carbon and sediment grain size, radioisotopes for down core dating, as well as measure trace metals in sediments, biota and suspended particles. 2. To determine the sources, cycles and fate of carbon, selected trace metals and the role of trace metals on organic carbon dynamics and food web dynamics on the inner shelf of the Chukchi Sea. Data from sampling efforts in 2009 and 2010 reveal that sediments contain low or background values for metals and aliphatic hydrocarbons (except for a few notable exceptions), and that the northern whelk, Neptunea heros, is a potentially valuable indicator for metals and organic contaminants. The northeastern Chukchi Sea is a productive and highly complex system that is characterized by significant spatial heterogeneity in both benthic infaunal and epifaunal populations. This dataset is part of the Pacific Marine Arctic Regional Synthesis (PacMARS) Project. This dataset includes the original .xls files from each PI, which were converted into .csv files. There is a ZIP file containing the SQL database files that were constructed from the PIs original data. Also included are shapefiles which define the sampling sites and the study area. Identifiers * Local archive identifier: 255.013 * doi:10.5065/D6K35RP6 https://doi.org/10.5065/D6K35RP6 Versions 1.0 Citation Dunton, K., et al. 2013. Chukchi Sea Offshore Monitoring in Drilling Area (COMIDA): Chemical and Benthos (CAB). Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6K35RP6 Accessed 23 Apr 2024. Additional citation styles can be generated by entering the DOI at CrossCite (https://citation.crosscite.org/). Acknowledgement In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements, please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as: Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/ Related projects * PacMARS: Pacific Marine Arctic Regional Synthesis https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/PacMARS Additional information * Spatial Type: multiple * Frequency: other * Language: English Grant Code M08PC20056 Categories * Arctic * Benthos * Biology * Chemistry * Ecology * Oceanography * Plankton * Sediment * Ship Based * Water Sampling Platforms * Global Positioning System - GPS * Ships * USCGC Healy - HLY Instruments * Plankton Nets GCMD Science Keywords * EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC * EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > PLANKTON > ZOOPLANKTON Documentation * COMIDA_CAB_Final_Report_3-26-12.pdf [51 MiB] https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/428A014B1599/COMIDA_CAB_Final_Report_3-26-12.pdf Related links * homepage: PacMARS Home Page https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/list?project=364 * info: PacMARS Data Policy https://data.eol.ucar.edu/arctic_projects/pacmars/docs/data_policy-pacmars.pdf Temporal coverage * Begin datetime: 2009-07-24 00:00:00 * End datetime: 2010-08-12 23:59:00 Spatial coverage * Maximum (North) Latitude: 72.419 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 65.65 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -168.931 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -157.491 Primary contact information * pointOfContact: Kenneth H. Dunton https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/283 Additional contact information * author: Kenneth H. Dunton https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/283 * author: Lee W. Cooper https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/52 * author: Jacqueline M. Grebmeier https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/421 * author: H. Rodger Harvey https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/402 * author: Brenda Konar https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1740 * author: David Maidment https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1267 * author: Susan Schonberg https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/600 * principalInvestigator: Kenneth H. Dunton https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/283 * author: John H. Trefry https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1012 * principalInvestigator: Lee W. Cooper https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/52 * principalInvestigator: Jacqueline M. Grebmeier https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/421 * principalInvestigator: H. Rodger Harvey https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/402 * principalInvestigator: Brenda Konar https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1740 * principalInvestigator: David Maidment https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1267 * principalInvestigator: Susan Schonberg https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/600 * principalInvestigator: John H. Trefry https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1012 Alternate metadata formats * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/255.013?format=datacite * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/255.013?format=isotc211