Description
Mesozooplankton time series data collected at Wilkinson Basin Time Series (WBTS) between January 1, 2005 and July 19, 2017. Sampling was conducted in collaboration with Drs. Doug Vandemark and Joe Salisbury and Research Associate Shawn Shellito at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). Between 2004-2008, the WBTS station was sampled at approximately monthly intervals by the Coastal Ocean Observing and Analysis Center (COOA: http://www.opal.sr.unh.edu/) at the University of New Hampshire, where J. Runge was a research faculty member until moving to the University of Maine in October, 2006. The WBTS station (known as Station WB-7 during the COOA project) was the furthest station on a transect extending out from Portsmouth Harbor. Funding for COOA ended in 2008 and the Wilkinson Basin was sampled at much less frequent intervals without zooplankton sample collection between September, 2008 and April, 2012. Between April 6, 2012 and May 21, 2013, the WBTS station was sampled at monthly intervals including zooplankton collection with the support of an NSF RAPID award to J. Runge (OCE-.1235920). In 2014, WBTS was sampled on three occasions. With the NSF award OCE- 1459087, entitled “Collaborative Research: Mechanisms supporting persistence of a key plankton species during climate change on the Northwest Atlantic continental shelf”, funding for monthly sampling at the WBTS station was supported between March, 2015 to July, 2017. The zooplankton samples were collected and analyzed by Rebecca Jones (2005-2011) and Cameron Thompson (2012-2017) under the supervision of J.Runge. Hydrographic and other environmental data were collected by the OPAL group at UNH under the supervision of J. Salisbury and D. Vandemark.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 178 records.
2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Runge J, Karp Boss L, Kinnison M, Poulton N, Teegarden G, Vandemark D (2023): Wilkinson Basin Time Series Station (WBTS): Mesozooplankton 2004-2017. v1.4. United States Geological Survey. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/resource?r=gom_wbts_mesozooplankton&v=1.4
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is United States Geological Survey. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 29651377-23c8-4f45-b439-693a1a23cee1. United States Geological Survey publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Samplingevent
Contacts
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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4391-107X
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Geographic Coverage
Gulf of Maine: Wilkinson Basin
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [41.86, -71.04], North East [42.9, -69.49] |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/628698b2d34e3bef0c9a8b02 |
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| 29651377-23c8-4f45-b439-693a1a23cee1 | |
| https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/resource?r=gom_wbts_mesozooplankton |