Profile data collected as part of the Bermuda-Atlantic Time Series Study (BATS) from Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS; formerly BBSR)

The MEDAR MEDATLAS DATABASE provides data and information compiled during the MEditerranean Data Archaeology and Rescue (MEDAR) MEDATLAS II project and Inventory of hydrological oceanographic cruises carried out in the Mediterranean and Black Sea between 1889 and 2000.

Baseline surveys were conducted at numerous sites around each island, including those identified as "hotspots" by the Department of Aquatic Resources, around the islands of Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, Oahu and Kauai. A total of 72 sites with 13 in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu alone. Alien and/or invasive algal abundance were ranked on a scale of 0 to 10 (0=0% cover, 10=100% cover) and includes habitat type (e.g., sand, lava bench, coral, rock, artificial substrate) and pertinent environmental correlates (e.g., depth, proximity to shore) at each site where invasive species are encountered.

A set of phytoplankton pigment measurements collected on eight quarterly transects from France to New Caledonia is analyzed in order to identify the main assemblages of phytoplankton and to relate their occurrence to oceanic conditions.

CTD and Chemistry data downloaded from the following Fisheries and Oceans Canada web site on 04 June 2003:

http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/sci/osap/data/linep/linepselectdata_e.htm

Any modifications to data on that site that may have occurred after 04 June 2003 are not reflected in this accession.

From the above web site:

CTD data is Pressure, Temperature, Salinity, Transmissometer, and Oxygen (recent years). Chemistry data is Oxygen and Nutrients.

A group of volunteers led by marine biologists participated in the removal of Gracilaria salicornia and Kappaphycus, invasive macroalgae species, from select reefs during Spring 2002 in Kanohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii. Data include the weight of the biomass per meter-squared and the number of minutes necessary to clear each meter-squared area.

Moored current meter data were collected from the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean from February 16, 1994 to May 25, 2002. Data were collected by the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) as part as part of the Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI). Current meter parameters include East/West velocity components (U), North/South velocity component (V), current speed, current direction, salinity, pressure, conductivity, and temperature. Data are not in standard formats and are self documenting.

Cruises are made to the HOT deep water station approximately once a month, and are denoted as HOT-n, where n is the sequential cruise number. HOT-1 was in October 1988.

Station inventories are given in files with the extension "sum" (e.g., HOT-1 is summarized in hot1.sum).

Station inventories from the ALOHA-Climax (AC) cruises are summarized in files with the prefix ac (e.g., AC-1 is summarized in ac1.sum).

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An experiment was performed to assess the potential to use native sea urchins as biocontrols for alien/invasive seaweeds. One species of urchin, tripneustes gratilla, was bedded in a 1/4 m2 plot with > 50% kappaphycus cover. Fences were made out of plastic coated chicken wire and were surveyed every month with photoquadrats to assess kappaphycus abundance. In addition, regrowth of plots where kappaphycus had been removed was monitored.