Abstract:

This dataset includes data collected as part of a test deployment of a Remotely Operated Vehicle Assisted Recovery Device (ROVARD) lander with Chimney Sampler Array (CSA) system aboard. Time-series data include dissolved oxygen, temperature, depth, current speed, and current direction.

Suggested Citation:

Christopher Martens. 2016. Remotely Operated Vehicle Assisted Recovery Device lander Oxygen (O2) Data, Gulf of Mexico, October 2011 – April 2012. Distributed by: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC), Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/N7N29V0R

Publications:

Martens, C. S., Mendlovitz, H. P., Seim, H., Lapham, L., & D’Emidio, M. (2015). Sustained in situ measurements of dissolved oxygen, methane and water transport processes in the benthic boundary layer at MC118, northern Gulf of Mexico. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.11.012

Purpose:

To collect environmental data in the northern Gulf of Mexico (BOEM lease block MC118) over time.

Data Parameters and Units:

Record (#); Time tag (Gmt); Battery Voltage (V); Turbidity (FTU); Abs Speed DCS #274 (current at ocean bottom, cm/s); Direction (deg); North (eng units); East (eng units); Heading (eng units); Tilt X (deg); Tilt Y (deg); SP Std (single ping standard deviation, eng units); Strength (dB); Ping Count (#); Cond out 18 in #416 (conductivity measured 18in off seafloor, S/m); Temperature Conductance (ocean bottom temp 18in off seafloor, deg C); Raw Cond0 (engineering units); RawCond 1 (engineering units); ZAmp (engineering units); RawTemp (engineering units); Cond inside 10in #417 (conductivity measured 10 in off seafloor in 1 m tall tube, S/m); Temperature Conductance (ocean bottom temp 10 in off bottom in 1 m tall tube, deg C); O2 out 18in #275 (O2 Concentration measured 18 in off seafloor, uM); Air Saturation (% of O2 measured 18 in off seafloor); Temperature (18 off seafloor, deg C); CalPhase (engineering units from O2 sensor); TCPhase (engineering units from O2 sensor); C1RPh (engineering units from O2 sensor); C2RPh (engineering units from O2 sensor); C1Amp (engineering units from O2 sensor); C2Amp (engineering units from O2 sensor); RawTemp (eng units from ocean bottom temp); O2 inside 8in #287 (O2 concentration measured 8 in off seafloor in 1 m tube, uM); Air Saturation (% of O2 measured 8 in off seafloor in 1 m tube); Temperature (measured 8 in off seafloor in 1 m tube, deg C); CalPhase (engineering units); TCPhase (engineering units); C1RPh (engineering units); C2RPh (engineering units); C1Amp (engineering units); C2Amp (engineering units); RawTemp (engineering units); Pressure #322 (kPa); Temperature (seafloor temp, deg C); Rawdata temperature (engineering units); O2 inside 10in #568 (O2 Concentration measured 10in off seafloor in 1 m tube, uM); Air Saturation (% of O2 measured 10 in off seafloor in 1 m tube); Temperature (measured 10 in off seafloor in 1 m tube, deg C); CalPhase (engineering units); TCPhase (engineering units); C1RPh (engineering units); C2RPh (engineering units); C1Amp (engineering units); C2Amp (engineering units); RawTemp (engineering units); Depth (m); Salinity inside 10in #417 cond (psu); Speed of Sound cond #417 (cm/s); Density cond #417 (mg/L^3); Salinity out 18in #416 cond (psu); Speed of sound #416 cond (cm/s); Density #416 cond (mg/L^3)

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