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This package provides a concatenated table of events recorded on seasonal Transect cruises for Northeast U.S. Shelf Long-Term Ecological Research (NES-LTER) and other opportunistic cruises within the transect region. Events were recorded onboard with Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) event logger (elog) software. Event listings include date, time, ship's position, instrument, and action for over the side operations, underway data collection, and other miscellaneous events during the cruise. The event log is used post-cruise in physical sample cataloging and data integration. Cruises are seasonal and include NES-LTER dedicated voyages, spring and fall cruises in collaboration with the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), and additional opportunistic cruises.
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Event logs from Northeast U.S. Shelf Long Term Ecological Research (NES-LTER) Transect cruises, ongoing since 2017
This package provides a concatenated table of events recorded on seasonal Transect cruises for Northeast U.S. Shelf Long-Term Ecological Research (NES-LTER). Events were recorded onboard with Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) event logger (elog) software. Event listings include date, time, ship’s position, instrument, and action for use in physical sample cataloging and post-cruise data integration. Cruises include winter and summer cruises dedicated to NES-LTER, spring and fall cruises in collaboration with the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), and additional fall cruises.
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- PAR ID:
- 10439686
- Publisher / Repository:
- Environmental Data Initiative
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- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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