Obsolete - AFSC/RACE/EcoFOCI - Chlorophyll, temperature, salinity, nutrients, chlorophyll, fluorescence and zooplankton collected around the moorings and along the 70-m isobath on 4 cruises (3MF07, 18 April - 6 May; 1HE07, 10 April - 12 May; 7MF07, 17 - 30 September; 1TT07, 24 September - 11 October

These data are part of an ocean observation study by Stabeno, Napp, and Whitledge sponsored, in part, by the North Pacific Research Board (Project 701; http://doc.nprb.org). The grant was titled "Sentinels for ecosystem change: long term biophysical moorings on the Bering Sea shelf (2007 b?? 2008)." Moorings have been maintained on the southeastern Bering Sea shelf at four sites: M2 (56.9B0N, 164.1B0W) since 1995, M4 (57.9B0N, 168.9B0W) since 1996; M5 (59.9B0N, 171.7B0W) and; M8 (62.2B0N 174.7B0W) since 2004. Shipboard measurements of temperature, salinity, nutrients, chlorophyll, fluorescence and zooplankton were collected around the moorings and along the 70-m isobath on 4 cruises (3MF07, 18 April b?? 6 May; 1HE07, 10 April b?? 12 May; 7MF07, 17 b?? 30 September; 1TT07, 24 September b?? 11 October) to groundtruth the in situ sensors on the moorings and to learn the factors that distinguish the upper water column of the central and southeastern middle shelf.