Description
Penn Cove (in the Whidbey Basin) is designated as a category 5, 303d impaired water body due to low dissolved oxygen. In addition to runoff from adjacent developed and agricultural lands, treated effluent from two sewage treatment plants (STPs) and freshwater from the nearby Skagit River flow into Penn Cove. This project investigates the structure and function of microbial communities in the context of inorganic nutrients and physical parameters to assess any detectable influence of STPs.
Work is conducted by NOAA personnel with assistance from undergraduate research interns. Data collected across four different seasons include bacterial/archeal abundance (biomass), heterotrophic production (productivity), bacterial diversity, chlorophyll A, inorganic nutrient concentrations, dissolved oxygen concentration, and seawater temperature.
Anticipated products are presentations at scientific meetings related to marine dissolved oxygen and to local management authorities (e.g., county government) as well as publication in the referred literature. The project is a seed project to develop further capacity to assess additional low dissolved oxygen sites.
FileMaker Pro of field & lab analyses.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords | Unknown | The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. | Open resource |
| Full Metadata Record | Unknown | View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. | Open resource |
| NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) | NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. | Open resource | |
| IGP2010 microbial | Unknown | NWFSC Dataset Information page. FileMaker Pro of field & lab analyses | Open resource |
| IGP2010 microbial | Unknown | Bacterial community profiling at sewage treatment plant outfalls in Penn Cove & Saratoga Passage in the Whidbey Basin, WA from April 2010 to August 2011 | Open resource |
| IGP2010 microbial | XLS | Bacterial community profiling at sewage treatment plant outfalls in Penn Cove & Saratoga Passage in the Whidbey Basin, WA from April 2010 to August 2011 | Open resource |
| https://www.webapps.nwfsc.noaa.gov/PARR/EFS_Rhodes_2016_IGP2010_QAQC.xlsx | XLS | FileMaker Pro of field & lab analyses | Open resource |
Tags
- bacterial communities
- chlorophyll a
- dna sequencer
- doc/noaa/nmfs/nwfsc
- gps
- heterotrophic production
- low dissolved oxygen
- marine microbes
- microbial abundance
- migrated from resource enhancement and utilization technologies division
- national marine fisheries service
- noaa. u.s. department of commerce
- northwest fisheries science center
- nutrients
- penn cove & saratoga passage
- puget sound
- quantitative pcr machine
- sonde and probe
- unknown instrument
- water sampler bottle - niskin bottle