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BODC Cruise Metadata Report for CCGS Amundsen cruise ArcticNet1502 (ArcticNet, GN02)

Introduction

This report collates information from the BODC cruise inventory and oceanographic databases. It presents

Cruise Inventory Information

Long name CCGS Amundsen cruise ArcticNet1502 (ArcticNet, GN02)
Short name ArcticNet1502 (ArcticNet, GN02)
Objectives and Narrative Leg 2 of the 2015 CCGS Amundsen expedition was shared between ArcticNet and the Canadian Arctic GEOTRACES project: "A biogeochemical and tracer study of a rapidly changing Arctic Ocean". As part of the international GEOTRACES program, the principal mandate of the Canadian Arctic GEOTRACES project was the study input, removal and cycling of trace elements and isotopes in the water column, and to use this information to document, monitor, and predict the evolution of physical and biogeochemical processes in the Arctic Ocean. The project also included extensive biological and trace gases components of direct relevance to the long-term goals of ArcticNet, which facilitated coordination of sampling for both programs.

Sampling operations consisted of:
- seawater sampling with ArcticNet's 24 x 12 L rosette - CTD (Niskin-type bottles)
- seawater sampling under trace metal clean conditions with GEOTRACES' 12 x 12 L rosette - CTD (Go-Flo bottles)
- particle sampling with 6 McLane large volume in-situ pumps
- zooplankton and fish sampling with a Net Vertical Sampler (NVS), a Double Square Net (DSN), a Isaac-Kidd Midwater Trawl (IKMT), a Hydrobios, and a Benthic Beam Trawl
- aerosol sampling with a volumetric flow controlled high volume sampler
- underway trace gas analysis with a Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometer (MIMS) and a Gas Chromatograph (GC)
Additional planned activities included:
- incubations for productivity measurements with different isotopic tracers
- ocean acidification experiments
- sea ice melt pond sampling
- Argo floats deployments
- river sampling
- seafloor mapping with a multibeam sonar and a CHIRP sub-bottom profiler
- mooring deployment in Queen Maud Gulf
Ship CCGS Amundsen
Departure Port Quebec, Canada
Departure Date 2015-07-10
Arrival Port Kugluktuk, Canada
Arrival Date 2015-08-20
Principal Scientist(s) Roger Francois (University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences)
Responsible Organisation University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Associated Project(s) GEOTRACES -Trace elements and their isotopes in the water column
IHB Sea Areas Visited The Northwestern Passages, Labrador Sea (Davis Strait)
Marsden Squares Visited 186/222/259/260/261/262/263
Work Area Description Canadian Arctic
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Work Area Bounding Polygon
Southern Limit unknown
Northern Limit unknown
Western Limit unknown
Eastern Limit unknown

Cruise Inventory Datasets

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Cruise Inventory Mooring/Buoy Operations

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Summary of BODC Data Holdings for the Cruise

National Oceanographic Database

Summary

# Series Instrument Description Parameters
61 CTD/STD cast Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
Reference numbers
Salinity of the water column
Temperature of the water column
Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
Vertical spatial coordinates
Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column
5 CTD/STD cast Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
Reference numbers
Salinity of the water column
Temperature of the water column
Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
Vertical spatial coordinates

Note: Parameter terms are taken from the BODC Parameter Discovery Vocabulary XML (SKOS)

Full List

BODC Reference Instrument Description Date/Time Location  
2078413 CTD/STD cast 2015-07-14 09:58Z 56° 7' N, 53° 22' W Click for more
2078425 CTD/STD cast 2015-07-14 13:35Z 56° 7' N, 53° 22' W Click for more
2078437 CTD/STD cast 2015-07-14 20:33Z 56° 7' N, 53° 22' W Click for more
2078449 CTD/STD cast 2015-07-14 23:48Z 56° 7' N, 53° 22' W Click for more
2078450 CTD/STD cast 2015-07-17 08:14Z 60° 27' N, 56° 33' W Click for more
2078462 CTD/STD cast 2015-07-17 23:26Z 60° 26' N, 56° 32' W Click for more
2078474 CTD/STD cast 2015-07-18 04:45Z 60° 25' N, 56° 34' W Click for more
2078486 CTD/STD cast 2015-07-18 13:29Z 60° 26' N, 56° 33' W Click for more
2078498 CTD/STD cast 2015-07-19 13:51Z 63° 57' N, 60° 6' W Click for more
2078505 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-03 09:11Z 66° 51' N, 59° 3' W Click for more
2078517 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-03 14:52Z 66° 51' N, 59° 4' W Click for more
2078529 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-03 23:34Z 66° 51' N, 59° 3' W Click for more
2078530 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-05 20:45Z 71° 24' N, 68° 35' W Click for more
2078542 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-06 03:44Z 71° 24' N, 68° 36' W Click for more
2078554 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-06 12:39Z 71° 25' N, 68° 36' W Click for more
2078566 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-06 15:39Z 71° 24' N, 68° 36' W Click for more
2078578 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-07 19:43Z 72° 45' N, 66° 59' W Click for more
2078591 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-08 00:58Z 72° 45' N, 67° 0' W Click for more
2078609 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-08 10:24Z 72° 45' N, 66° 59' W Click for more
2078610 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-08 13:42Z 72° 45' N, 67° 0' W Click for more
2078622 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-09 22:17Z 74° 31' N, 80° 34' W Click for more
2078634 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-10 03:37Z 74° 31' N, 80° 33' W Click for more
2078646 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-10 06:47Z 74° 31' N, 80° 34' W Click for more
2078658 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-10 12:01Z 74° 31' N, 80° 34' W Click for more
2078671 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-10 15:15Z 74° 31' N, 80° 34' W Click for more
2078683 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-10 17:00Z 74° 31' N, 80° 34' W Click for more
2078695 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-10 19:15Z 74° 19' N, 80° 30' W Click for more
2078702 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-10 21:39Z 74° 19' N, 80° 30' W Click for more
2078714 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-10 23:33Z 74° 18' N, 80° 30' W Click for more
2078726 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-11 04:00Z 74° 19' N, 80° 30' W Click for more
2078738 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-11 05:44Z 74° 19' N, 80° 30' W Click for more
2078751 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-11 07:14Z 74° 9' N, 80° 28' W Click for more
2078763 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-11 09:11Z 73° 58' N, 80° 28' W Click for more
2078775 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-11 12:13Z 73° 49' N, 80° 29' W Click for more
2078787 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-11 16:22Z 73° 49' N, 80° 29' W Click for more
2078799 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-11 22:04Z 73° 49' N, 80° 28' W Click for more
2078806 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-11 23:53Z 73° 49' N, 80° 29' W Click for more
2078818 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-12 04:21Z 73° 49' N, 80° 30' W Click for more
2078831 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-12 05:59Z 73° 49' N, 80° 30' W Click for more
2078843 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-12 21:40Z 74° 32' N, 90° 47' W Click for more
2078855 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-12 22:55Z 74° 32' N, 90° 48' W Click for more
2078867 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-13 02:54Z 74° 32' N, 90° 48' W Click for more
2078879 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-13 04:32Z 74° 32' N, 90° 48' W Click for more
2078880 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-13 14:13Z 74° 31' N, 90° 48' W Click for more
2078892 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-13 17:38Z 74° 7' N, 91° 30' W Click for more
2078911 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-13 18:53Z 74° 7' N, 91° 30' W Click for more
2078923 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-14 01:18Z 74° 7' N, 91° 30' W Click for more
2078935 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-14 05:12Z 74° 7' N, 91° 29' W Click for more
2078947 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-14 06:54Z 74° 7' N, 91° 30' W Click for more
2078959 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-14 19:25Z 74° 45' N, 97° 27' W Click for more
2078960 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-14 20:48Z 74° 45' N, 97° 27' W Click for more
2078972 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-15 01:37Z 74° 45' N, 97° 27' W Click for more
2078984 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-15 05:29Z 74° 45' N, 97° 27' W Click for more
2078996 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-15 08:48Z 74° 45' N, 97° 27' W Click for more
2079011 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-15 21:09Z 73° 40' N, 96° 33' W Click for more
2079023 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-15 22:26Z 73° 40' N, 96° 33' W Click for more
2079035 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-16 02:16Z 73° 40' N, 96° 31' W Click for more
2079047 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-16 07:14Z 73° 39' N, 96° 32' W Click for more
2079059 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-16 09:22Z 73° 39' N, 96° 32' W Click for more
2079060 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-17 10:49Z 69° 52' N, 99° 32' W Click for more
2079072 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-17 18:12Z 69° 9' N, 100° 41' W Click for more
2079084 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-17 19:23Z 69° 9' N, 100° 42' W Click for more
2079096 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-17 20:41Z 69° 10' N, 100° 42' W Click for more
2079103 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-18 16:13Z 68° 58' N, 105° 27' W Click for more
2079115 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-18 17:43Z 68° 58' N, 105° 27' W Click for more
2079127 CTD/STD cast 2015-08-18 19:09Z 68° 58' N, 105° 27' W Click for more

Project Database

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References

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