Coral Reef Ecosystem Research Consisting Of Biologic Data, LADCP, SADCP, and Flowthrough Data from NOAA Ship Nancy Foster in Caribbean Sea from 2007-03-30 to 2011-05-07 (NCEI Accession 0273560)

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists from the Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) and Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), working with scientists from the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) in St. Thomas conducted a multi-year interdisciplinary research project using the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster to conduct biological and physical oceanographic surveys of the Virgin Islands’ (VI) bank ecosystems and surrounding regional waters. The long-term sustainability of fisheries in the VI and surrounding regions is dependent on a comprehensive understanding of regional spawning aggregations, larval transport, and overall larval recruitment in the study area This survey sampled water properties, currents, and dispersal and transport of settlement-stage larvae in the VI and neighboring regions. Data in this archival package includes: processed larval fish data collected from the various net tows (BONGO, MOCNESS, etc.) , processed data from all conductivity, temperature, depth (CTD) casts, processed data from all lowered acoustic Doppler profiler (LADCP) casts, processed hull-mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler (SADCP), processed sea surface, flow-through data collected with the ship's thermosalinograph (TSG) and fluorometer collected aboard NOAA Ship Nancy Foster during cruises NF-0705, NF-0805, NF-0903 NF-1001,NF-1002 and NF-1102 from 2007-04-07 to 2011-05-07.

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0273560 ANIMALS - GROUP - NUMBER IN GROUP WATER TEMPERATURE ADCP CTD Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System (MOCNESS) net visual observation biological in situ laboratory analyses NOAA Ship Nancy Foster NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) CORAL REEF STUDIES Caribbean Sea oceanography DOC/NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC > Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/OAR/AOML > Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Numeric Data Sets > Biology Numeric Data Sets > Oceanography EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Microbiota > Pigments > Chlorophylls EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Fish EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Oxygen EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Water Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Salinity/Density > Conductivity EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Water Velocity EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE ADCP > Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth MOCNESS > MOCNESS Plankton Net NETS > NETS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS > VISUAL OBSERVATIONS Ships NANCY FOSTER (call sign: WTER, ICES code: 33NF, 2004-) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > British Overseas Territory > British Virgin Islands > British Virgin Islands (18N064W0000) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > Dominican Republic > Dominican Republic (19N070W0000) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Puerto Rico > Puerto Rico (18N066W0000) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > U. S. Virgin Islands > U. S. Virgin Islands (17N064W0000) OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea /North Atlantic Ocean > Dominican Republic > Dominican Republic (19N070W0000) OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea /North Atlantic Ocean > Puerto Rico > Puerto Rico (18N066W0000) OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > British Virgin Islands > British Virgin Islands (18N064W0000) OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > Lesser Antilles > U. S. Virgin Islands (17N064W0000) OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA 3H62DN

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:0273560
issued	2023-01-06T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
language	[]
references	[ "https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/68639", "https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/46447", "https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/46446", "https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/635", "https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/46445", "https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/46444", "https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/634", "https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/548", "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0071978" ]
rights	otherRestrictions
spatial	-62.1287,16.5,-76.5178,25.63383
temporal	2007-03-30T00:00:00+00:00/2011-05-07T00:00:00+00:00