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Coral Reef Ecosystem and Larval Research Consisting Of Biologic Data from the Nancy Foster in Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico from April 11, 2015 to June 24, 2018 (NCEI Accession 0293057)

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists from the Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) and Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), working with scientists from the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) in St. Thomas conducted a multi-year interdisciplinary research project which was a continuation of the 2007-2011 project using the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster to conduct biological and physical oceanographic surveys of the Virgin Island's (VI) bank ecosystems and surrounding regional waters as well as areas around Jamaica, Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico. The long-term sustainability of fisheries in the VI and surrounding regions is dependent on a comprehensive understanding of regional spawning aggregations, larval transport, and overall larval recruitment in the study area. This survey sampled water properties, currents, and dispersal and transport of settlement-stage larvae in the VI and neighboring regions. Data in this archival package includes: processed larval fish data collected from the various net tows (BONGO, MOCNESS, etc.) , processed data from all conductivity, temperature, depth (CTD) casts, processed data from all lowered acoustic Doppler profiler (LADCP) casts, processed hull-mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler (SADCP), processed sea surface, flow-through data collected with the ship's thermosalinograph (TSG) and fluorometer collected aboard NOAA Ship Nancy Foster during cruises NF-15-02, NF-15-03, NF-16-02, NF-16-03, NF-17-03 and NF-18-03 from 2015-04-11 to 2018-06-24.

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0293057 ANIMALS - GROUP - NUMBER IN GROUP WATER TEMPERATURE ADCP CTD Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System (MOCNESS) net visual observation in situ laboratory analyses NOAA Ship Nancy Foster NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) CORAL REEF STUDIES Caribbean Sea Gulf of Mexico oceanography DOC/NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC > Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/OAR/AOML > Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE ADCP > Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth MOCNESS > MOCNESS Plankton Net NETS > NETS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS > VISUAL OBSERVATIONS Ships NANCY FOSTER (call sign: WTER, ICES code: 33NF, 2004-) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > U. S. Virgin Islands > U. S. Virgin Islands (17N064W0000) OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > Lesser Antilles > U. S. Virgin Islands (17N064W0000) OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA > ANGUILLA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA > CUBA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA > DOMINICAN REPUBLIC OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA > JAMAICA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA > PUERTO RICO OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA > VIRGIN ISLANDS OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > IRISH SEA Cuba Dominican Republic Jamaica Virgin Islands BX4FC2

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temporal 2015-04-11T00:00:00+00:00/2018-06-24T00:00:00+00:00
title Coral Reef Ecosystem and Larval Research Consisting Of Biologic Data from the Nancy Foster in Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico from April 11, 2015 to June 24, 2018 (NCEI Accession 0293057)

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