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Geological, biological, and chemical data for Benthic Sediment Baseline Study of Mobile Bay from 1980-04-03 to 1981-08-26 (NCEI Accession 0117430)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: October 13, 2025 | Last Modified: 2014-04-08T00:00:00.000+00:00
Beginning in late 1979, the Alabama Coastal Area Board (CAB) funded a series of baseline surveys on the coastal resources of Alabama, from which they could develop a monitoring program to observe any significant changes in the resources over time. Eight stations within Mobile Bay were sampled monthly from April 1980 to April 1981. Data collected included samples for benthic fauna, pelagic fauna, sediment particle size, total organic carbon, foraminifera, zooplankton, phytoplankton, chlorophyll, turbidity, river flow, and hydrographic parameters. The subset of data presented here are for sediment particle size, total organic carbon, and foraminifera. Data are available from April 1980 to April 1981 for eight stations (14 sampling trips), and one station until August 1981 (4 additional trips).

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0117430 BENTHIC COMMUNITIES biological data CARBON - TOTAL ORGANIC FORAMINIFERA HABITAT - BENTHIC MEIOFAUNA SEDIMENT - GRAIN SIZE SEDIMENT PROPERTIES SEDIMENTS SEDIMENTS - DRY WEIGHT SEDIMENTS - ORGANIC CARBON SEDIMENTS - PARTICLE SIZE FRACTIONS species abundance SPECIES COUNT PER SAMPLE SPECIES IDENTIFICATION TAXONOMIC CODE laboratory analysis sediment sampler - grab sediment sieve benthic biological chemical geological laboratory analyses manual sample collection sediment analysis site samples survey survey - biological Dauphin Island Sea Lab Dauphin Island Sea Lab COASTAL Coastal Waters of Alabama Coastal Waters of Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Mexico North Atlantic Ocean oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PROTISTS > AMOEBOIDS > FORAMINIFERS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > ORGANIC CARBON GRAB SAMPLERS GRANULOMETRIC SIEVES OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO

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describedByType application/octet-steam
identifier gov.noaa.nodc:0117430
issued 2014-04-08T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
language []
rights otherRestrictions
spatial -87.85167,30.23833,-88.17333,30.61333
temporal 1980-04-03T00:00:00+00:00/1981-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

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