Fluorescent sediment profile images (fSPI) for replicate macrofaunal communities from the Western Barents Sea for summer 2017 and 2018
GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01368
Abstract:
Images of the macrofaunal mediated redistribution of optically distinct particulate tracers (luminophores) for intact communities from the western Barents Sea after 12 days incubation. Images of all four sides of each aquarium are taken using a digital SLR camera housed within a UV illuminated imaging box. Samples were collected on cruises JR16006 and JR17007.
Funding was provided by 'The Changing Arctic Ocean Seafloor (ChAOS) - how changing sea ice conditions impact biological communities, biogeochemical processes and ecosystems' project (NE/N015894/1 and NE/P006426/1, 2017-2021), part of the NERC funded Changing Arctic Ocean programme.
Citation:
Solan, M., Godbold, J., Grange, L., Ward, E., Wood, C., & Reed, A. (2020). Fluorescent sediment profile images (fSPI) for replicate macrofaunal communities from the Western Barents Sea for summer 2017 and 2018 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/82771e90-65d6-4f56-b766-a16fe099fc98
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| Access: | No restrictions apply. |
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| Use: | This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/. |
Basic Information
| Creation Date: | 2020-07-23 |
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| Dataset Progress: | Complete |
| Dataset Language: | English |
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Additional Information
| Reference: | Solan M, Ward ER, Wood CL, Reed AJ, Grange LJ, Godbold JA 2020. Climate driven benthic invertebrate activity and biogeochemical functioning across the Barents Sea Polar Front. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. | |
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| Quality: | Original unedited images provided. Image JR16006_2017_B16_aquarium3_side1.jpg not available due to unrecoverable corruption at point of transfer from camera. | |
| Lineage/Methodology: | Data were collected from each of 5 stations in 2017 (B13-B17) and 6 stations in 2018 (B13-B17 and Xs) during two consecutive cruises (RRS James Clark Ross: JR16006, 30th June to 8th August, 2017; JR17007: 10th July to 5th August, 2018) following a transect along the 30ºE meridian. At each station four replicate intact sediment cores (LWH: 20 x 20 x 12 cm) were obtained from replicate 0.1m2 USNL (Unites States Naval Laboratory) box cores using a core extruder, transferred to transparent acrylic aquaria (internal dimensions, LWH: 20 x 20 x 34 cm) and overlain with ~8 L (20cm depth) surface seawater (salinity, ~34). Aquaria (2017, n = 20; 2018, n = 24) were randomly transferred to one of two insulated fibreglass seawater baths (LWH: 1.2 x 1.2 x 0.8m, Tanks Direct, UK) and maintained at a representative ambient bottom temperature in the dark. Faunal mediated sediment particle reworking was estimated by establishing the redistribution of optically distinct particulate tracers (luminophores: 215g aquaria-1, fluorescent green, <200µm silica sand, density 2.35 kg dm-3; Glass Pebbles Ltd., UK). Luminophores were evenly distributed across the sediment surface immediately after the partial seawater change. After 12 days, images (RGB colour, JPEG compression) of the redistribution of luminophores were taken of all four sides of each aquarium using a digital SLR camera (Canon 400D: 2017, 10 s exposure, f5.6 aperture, ISO 400, 83 µm pixel-1; 2018, 10 s exposure, f5.6 aperture, ISO 800, 74 µm pixel-1) housed within a UV illuminated imaging box. Resolution: Realised camera resolution of 83 µm pixel-1 in 2017 and 74 µm pixel-1 in 2018. |
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Extent
| Temporal Coverage: | |
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| Start Date | 2017-07-22 |
| End Date | 2017-08-01 |
| Start Date | 2018-07-09 |
| End Date | 2018-07-28 |
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| Latitude | |
| Southernmost | 74.49999 |
| Northernmost | 81.28249 |
| Longitude | |
| Westernmost | 27.23142 |
| Easternmost | 30.50174 |
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| Min Altitude | N/A |
| Max Altitude | N/A |
| Depth | |
| Min Depth | 228 metres |
| Max Depth | 360 metres |
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| Location | Arctic |
| Detailed Location | Western Barents Sea |
Instrumentation
| Data Collection: | Instrumentation: Canon 400D digital SLR camera |
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Storage
| Data Storage: | .JPG image files, filename conforms to the following format: cruise_year_station_aquarium replicate_side of aquarium.jpg Example: JR16006_2017_B14_aquarium2_side2 2017: 79 images 2018: 96 images |
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