ME70 Water Column Sonar Data Collected During HB2205

Description

With the overall goal of surveying and investigating known or suspected deep-sea coral habitats off the coast of the northeastern US and Canada, a team of biological oceanographers, taxonomists, benthic biologists, modelers, and physical scientists will conduct a program having the following objectives: 1. Survey areas using the ROV ROPOS; with concurrent sampling of environmental factors (i.e. depth, hydrography) to characterize benthic habitats and identify areas of coral presence 2. Ground-truth areas predicted to be coral hotspots based on data provided from habitat suitability models and validate habitat suitability models 3. Assess deep-sea coral abundance, distribution, size 4. Classify coral and adjacent soft sediment habitats and document faunal affinities 5. Collect deep corals for taxonomic, reproduction, and age analyses 6. Collect deep corals and associated fauna for genetic (e.g., phylogenetic, phylogeographic, and connectivity) and isotopic composition. 7. Collect sediment cores to study sedimentary food webs. 8. Collect water samples for nutrient analyses and isotopic signatures 9. Conduct multibeam mapping in areas where data are missing or incomplete

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 AWS Cloud Storage to provide additional public access to water column sonar data through the NOAA Open Data Dissemination project (NODD) https://registry.opendata.aws/ncei-wcsd-archive/
0 Web page containing information on the water column sonar data archive. https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/wcd/
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Publication of Sea Areas is maintained by IHO. https://iho.int/
0 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. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
0 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. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
0 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. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
0 Interactive map viewer to allow discovery and access to water column sonar data https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/water-column-sonar/index.html?surveys=HB2205&instruments=ME70
0 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. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords

Tags

  • water column
  • vertical location
  • acoustic scattering
  • water column mapping system
  • benthic
  • ecosystems
  • nesdis
  • biosphere
  • bathymetry
  • in situ/laboratory instruments
  • oceans
  • national geophysical data center
  • noaa
  • marine ecosystems
  • aquatic sciences
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • profilers/sounders
  • earth science
  • acoustic sounders
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ngdc
  • bathymetry/seafloor topography
  • aquatic ecosystems
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei
  • fisheries
  • pelagic
  • wcms
  • north atlantic ocean
  • seafloor topography
  • national centers for environmental information
  • ocean acoustics

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