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2015 Data

Published by Southeast Fisheries Science Center | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: April 11, 2026 | Last Modified: 2015-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
This contains the final (processed) data and raw data from NF-15-02/03 conducted aboard the NOAA Ship NANCY FOSTER between 11 April 2015 and 02 June 2015. This was a merged research cruise combining the Larval Bluefin Tuna Ecology Survey (LBTES), Coral Reef Ecosystem Research (CRER), and Bluefin Tuna Ecology (BTE) field efforts for 2015. CLEARANCE COUNTRIES: Anguilla, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Turks and Caicos Islands The data includes: CTD: processed and raw data from all conductivity, temperature, depth (CTD) casts (ASCII format) LADCP: processed and raw data from all lowered acoustic Doppler profiler (LADCP) casts (ASCII and binary format) SADCP: processed and raw hull-mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler (SADCP) data from the completed cruise ship track (matlab .mat data file, .asc ASCII data file surface velocities only, and raw binary and ASCII files). TSG: processed and raw sea surface, flow-through data collected with the ship's thermosalinograph (TSG) and fluorometer, covering the completed cruise ship track (XLS and ASCII format) FISH: processed and raw larval fish (ichthyoplankton) data collected from the various net tows performed during the cruise (XLS and PDF format)

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  • blog about a research survey aboard the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster searching for bluefin tuna larvae among other fishy creatures

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title 2015 Data

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