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This dataset includes water-column data collected from the Beaufort Shelf during the open-water seasons in 2020, 2021, and 2022. The 2020 data include water-column profiles (salinity, temperature, depth, turbidity, particle size distributions, particle volume concentrations, and uncorrected clorophyll-a) collected with an RBR CTD/Tu (conductivity, temperature, depth, turbidity) sensor and LISST sensor from R/V Sikuliaq and its workboat. Most sites were in the Harrison Bay region (north of the Colville Delta and Simpson Lagoon) and a few were located farther east. The 2021 and 2022 data include the same CTD/Tu and LISST data that were collected in 2020, but are focused in Harrison Bay and also include profiles of light intensity (photosynthetically active radiation) as well as ADCP (acoustic doppler current profile) profiles from a pole-mounted Nortek Signature 500 kilohertz (kHz) sensor. In 2021, additional data include filtration data (total suspended solids, suspended sediment concentrations, and organic fractions) from water samples and hi-resolution echosounder data from the Nortek ADCP. These data are being incorporated into publications about summertime water-column properties and sediment transport dynamics within Harrison Bay (Eidam et al., pending).
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Blossom Shoals water-column, seabed sediment, and bathymetry data. Icy Cape, Chukchi Sea, Alaska. 2019-2020.
This dataset includes vessel-based water-column profile and seabed data collected around Blossom Shoals, a shoal complex offshore of Icy Cape in northwestern Alaska (in the Chukchi Sea). Data were collected from the Research Vessel (R/V) Sikuliaq (offshore) and a companion workboat (inshore). Water-column profile data include salinity, temperature, depth, and turbidity data collected using a RBR Maestro CTD/Tu (conductivity, temperature, depth, turbidity) sensor package. Profile data also include median diameters and volumetric concentrations of suspended particles, where were collected using a Sequoia LISST200X (laser in situ scattering transmissometer). Seabed grab samples were collected from the Sikuliaq using a shipek grab sampler and from the workboat using a hand-operated mini van veen grab sampler. Samplers were bagged and returned chilled to the lab for particle-size analyses in an Escitec Bettersizer S3Plus laser diffraction sensor. Sediments were not treated for organics due to generally low organic contents. Samples contained primarily sand except for a few isolated locations where mud was found. Data were collected in November 2019 during the fall freezeup season when pancake ice were beginning to form. Data were also collected in late September and early October 2020 during a mooring recovery cruise. Single-beam bathymetry data (which were only collected in 2020) were gathered using a commercial fish finder mounted on the workboat and connected to a data logger.
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- PAR ID:
- 10446691
- Publisher / Repository:
- NSF Arctic Data Center
- Date Published:
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- sediment conductivity salinity temperature turbidity seabed particle size bathymetry
- Format(s):
- Medium: X Other: text/xml
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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