Oceanographic data collected during the Mountains in the Sea: Exploring the New England Seamount Chain 2003 on RV Atlantis in North Atlantic Ocean from July 11, 2003 - July 19, 2003 (NCEI Accession 0072308)

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This summer, with the help of the Alvin submersible, a multidisciplinary team of scientists and educators visited several little known seamounts in the North Atlantic, along with at least one previously unexplored seamount, to study various aspects of deep-sea octocorals and other organisms living on and around the seamounts. The primary objective was to map, collect, and identify deepwater corals, fishes, and miscellaneous invertebrates from the seamounts, with special attention to whether corals are most abundant at the crest of the seamount and whether they form important habitat for other species, such as benthic fishes, when the corals are particularly abundant.

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:0072308
issued	2011-04-27T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
language	[]
references	[ "https://archive.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03mountains/", "https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ships/atlantis/AT08_mb.html", "https://data.noaa.gov/metaview/page?xml=NOAA/NESDIS/ncei/oer/iso/xml/MountainsintheSea2003_COLLECTION.xml&view=xml2text/xml-to-text-ISO", "https://discover.library.noaa.gov/permalink/01NOAA_INST/1qbesct/alma991000718659707381" ]
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spatial	-60.506413,38.050493,-70.909707,41.524042
temporal	2003-07-11T00:00:00+00:00/2003-07-19T00:00:00+00:00