Wetland Assessment Data was collected from Coastal waters of Gulf of Mexico by Louisiana State and the Louisiana Geological Service under MMS Cooperative Agreement No.14-12-0001-30410-Mitigation of Wetland Impacts due to OCS Oil and Gas Activities. Data include suspended solids, soils, currents, temperature, salinity, ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, phosphate, Secchi depth, sedimentation, chlorinity, tides, biology, invertebrates, marshes, leaf and stem biomass and chemistry, and heavy metals. Data was collected between January 1, 1988 and December 31, 1989.

The drifting buoy data in this dataset was collected over a one year period from buoys deployed by National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS. The data was collected in the Chukchi Sea from December 28, 1988 to December 31, 1989. The water depth and other Lagrangian drifting buoy data submitted by Mr. Eric A. Meindl in a tape has been processed by NODC and is currently available in F156 Drifting Buoy file format.

Time series data on fluxes, average weight, and isotopic compilation of perennially abundant planktonic foraminifera of the Sargasso sea, near Bermuda, North Atlantic. Thirty one sediment trap deployments at 3200-m and 1000-m above the sea floor from April 1978 to May 1984. Forms described are Globigerinoides ruber, Globigerinella aequilateralis, and Orbulina universa. These data were collected by Dr. W. G. Deuser, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), under NSF Grants OCE 76-21280, OCE 78-19813, OCE 80-24130, OCE 82-19588, and OCE 85-09155.

The Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) data were collected as part of Southern Coastal Plains Expedition (SCOPE) project. One month data was collected from Gulf of Maine using ship Endeavor. The data was collected over a period spanning from May 18, 1989 to June 11, 1989. Data was submitted on a floppy disk containing 199 CTD files by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole, MA. Data has been processed and is available in F022-CTD-Hi Resolution file format of NODC.

The Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) data were collected as part of Amazon Shelf Sediment Study (AMASSEDS) project. Data was collected from NW Atlantic (limit-40 W) using ship COLUMBUS ISELIN. The data was collected over a 10 day period between August 4 to August 13, 1989. Data was submitted on a floppy disk containing 86 CTD files by Dr. Richard Limeburner, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole, MA. Data has been processed and is available in F022-CTD-Hi Resolution file format of NODC.

The Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) data were collected from Gulf of Alaska using Ship ALPHA HELIX during three cruises HX14-HX145. The data was collected over a period spanning from September 11, 1990 to December 16, 1990. Data on a tape containing 148 station observations was submitted by Dr. Chirk Chu, Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK. Data has been processed and is available in F022-CTD-Hi Resolution file format of NODC.

This Index is an update of the original Index to Physical and Chemical Oceanographic Data of Puget Sound and Approaches published in 1970 (Collias, 1970). The principal additions to the original Index are the data obtained by a study of Skagit Bay for Seattle City Light (Collias, Barnes, and Lincoln, 1973), the study of the main basin of Puget Sound made for the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle (METRO) (Collias and Lincoln, 1977) and a portion of the direction of Dr. T. S. English.

Current meter components data were collected from FIXED PLATFORMS in the NW Atlantic (limit-40 W) and others locations from 26 February 1984 to 01 June 1986. Data were collected by the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science as part of the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE) and other projects. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F015 Current Meter Components format.

The Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) data were collected from Coastal Waters of California as part of Northern California Shelf Mixed Layer Experiment (SMILE). Six months data was collected using Ship WECOMA over a period spanning from November 13, 1988 to May 14, 1989. Data from 863 casts was submitted on a diskette by Dr. Richard Limeburner, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole, MA. Data has been processed and is available in F022-CTD-Hi Resolution file format of NODC.

Temperature profile data in the Indian Ocean from ORSTOM (France); 26,000 profiles from years 1906 thru 1989. Most appear to be derived from bathythermographs, although allowance is made for Nansen cast and CTD cast profiles. Data are to 500 m. These data are structured so as to be selected and plotted by the accompanying software. The data were received as a DOS backup on eleven 5.25" diskettes. These were restored to a PC hard disk and copied to archival storage media in 52 files.