gov.noaa.nodc:8500078 eng utf8 dataset NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NOAA Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information custodian 2026-02-05T20:49:33Z ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) Physical, chemical, phytoplankton, marine toxin, and other data from bottle casts and bottom grabs from NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV and other platforms as part of the North East Monitoring Program and other projects from 1977-02-12 to 1981-08-10 (NCEI Accession 8500078) 2002-11-19 publication 2023-02-10 revision 1985 creation NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information gov.noaa.nodc:8500078 NCEI Archive Management System 8500078 NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information publisher US DOI/Fish and Wildlife Service - Eastern Pennsylvania Region resourceProvider Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) http://www.pnl.gov/ HTTP Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) website Institution web page information contributor Energy Resources Company, Inc. contributor Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) contributor US DOI/Fish and Wildlife Service - Eastern Pennsylvania Region contributor US EPA/Meteorology and Assessment Division - Triangle Park, NC (EPA - Triangle Park, NC) contributor US DOI/Fish and Wildlife Service - Eastern Pennsylvania Region author tableDigital Physical, chemical, phytoplankton, marine toxin, and other data from bottle casts and bottom grabs from NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV and other platforms from 12 February 1977 to 10 August 1981. Data were collected by the Fish and Wildlife Service - Eastern Pennsylvania Region (FWS) and other institutions as part of the North East Monitoring Program and other projects. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F004 Water Physics and Chemistry format, the F028 Phytoplankton, and the F144 Marine Toxic Substances and Pollutants format. The F004 format is used for data from measurements and analyses of physical and chemical characteristics of the water column. Among chemical parameters that may be recorded are salinity, pH, and concentration of oxygen, ammonia, nitrate, phosphate, chlorophyll, and suspended solids. Physical parameters that may be recorded include temperature, density (sigma-t), transmissivity, and current velocity (east-west and north-south components). Cruise and station information, including environmental conditions of the study site at the time of observations, is also included. This F028 format is used for data from the sampling and analysis of marine phytoplankton. Information on phytoplankton abundance, distribution, and productivity derived from these data support studies of marine populations and ecosystems. Data reported may include: position, date, and time of sampling; bottom depth and sampling depths; volume of water filtered; and concentration of cells, carbon concentration, wet and dry weight, and counts for each species reported. Comments may be relayed in a text record. The F144 format contains data on ambient concentrations of toxic substances and other pollutants in the marine environment. The data derive from laboratory analyses of samples of water, sediment, or marine organisms. Samples may have been collected near marine discharge sites or during ocean monitoring surveys of large areas. Field observations of tar deposits on beaches may also be reported. Survey information includes platform type, start and end dates, and investigator and institution. If data are collected near a discharge site, discharge location, depth, distance to shore, average volume, and other characteristics are reported. Position, date, time and environmental conditions are reported for each sample station. Environmental data may include meteorological and sea surface conditions, tide stage and height, depth of the thermocline or mixed layer surface temperature and salinity, and wave height and periods. Sample characteristics, collection methods, and laboratory techniques are reported for each sample collected and analyzed. The data record comprises concentration values (or a code to indicate trace amounts) for each chemical substance analyzed. Chemical substances are identified by codes based on the registry numbers assigned by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) of the American Chemical Society. Marine organisms from which samples have been taken are identified using the 12-digit NODC Taxonomic Code. A text record is available for optional comments. This dataset is available to the public for a wide variety of uses including scientific research and analysis. completed historicalArchive NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information pointOfContact asNeeded NCEI Accession 8500078 was revised and a new version of the archival package was published. Updates to existing archival packages may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. The latest version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. All of the files received prior to this update are available in the preceding version of this accession. Please see journal.txt in the /about directory for additional details on changes made. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/gfx?id=gov.noaa.nodc:8500078 Preview graphic PNG 8500078 NCEI ACCESSION NUMBER 1985-01-18 publication AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB AMMONIA (NH3) BAROMETRIC PRESSURE BOTTOM TYPE CAS (CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE) PARAMETER CODES cloud amount/frequency cloud type DISSOLVED OXYGEN EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE DESCRIPTION EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE DISTANCE TO SHORE EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE IDENTIFIER EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE POINT EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE PRIMARY INDUSTRY EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE QUANTITY EFFLUENT - ZONE OF INITIAL DILUTION NITRATE OXYGEN phosphate PHYTOPLANKTON PHYTOPLANKTON - DRY WEIGHT PHYTOPLANKTON - WET WEIGHT PRODUCTIVITY SALINITY SEA DIRECTION SEA HEIGHT SEA STATE silicate SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - COUNT SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - LIFE STAGE SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - SEX SWELL DIRECTION SWELL HEIGHT TAXONOMIC CODE WATER COLOR water depth WATER TEMPERATURE WATER TRANSPARENCY WEATHER WIND DIRECTION WIND SPEED theme NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS bottle laboratory analysis meteorological sensor net - plankton net salinometer sediment sampler - corer sediment sampler - grab trawl visual analysis instrument NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS biological physical phytoplankton abundance plankton profile theme NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS FIXED PLATFORM OF UNITED STATES GYRE NOAA Ship Albatross IV NOAA Ship George B. Kelez UNKNOWN PLATFORMS OF UNITED STATES USCGC Alert platform NODC PLATFORM NAMES THESAURUS Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Brookhaven National Laboratory Energy Resources Company, Inc. US DOI/Fish and Wildlife Service - Eastern Pennsylvania Region US EPA/Meteorology and Assessment Division - Triangle Park, NC dataCentre NODC COLLECTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS US DOI/Fish and Wildlife Service - Eastern Pennsylvania Region dataCentre NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS Marine Ecosystems Analysis Project - Puget Sound (MESA Puget Sound) North East Monitoring Program (NEMP) OCEAN DUMPING project NODC PROJECT NAMES THESAURUS Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia North Atlantic Ocean Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary place NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS oceanography theme WMO_CategoryCode 2012-09-15 publication DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOE/BNL > Brookhaven National Laboratory, U. S. 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URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords information custodian ALBATROSS IV (call sign: WMVF, ICES code: 31A4, 1963-2008) ALERT (ICES code: 319L) G. B. KELEZ (ICES code: 31KE) GYRE (ICES code: 32GY) platform ICES/SeaDataNet Ship Codes OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN place Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords 2026 revision 24 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Greenbelt MD https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords HTTPS GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords information custodian accessLevel: public otherRestrictions Cite as: US DOI/Fish and Wildlife Service - Eastern Pennsylvania Region (2002). Physical, chemical, phytoplankton, marine toxin, and other data from bottle casts and bottom grabs from NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV and other platforms as part of the North East Monitoring Program and other projects from 1977-02-12 to 1981-08-10 (NCEI Accession 8500078). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/8500078. Accessed [date]. Distribution liability: NOAA and NCEI make no warranty, expressed or implied, regarding these data, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. NOAA and NCEI cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in these data. 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Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0189890. 2023-01-19 publication NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information gov.noaa.nodc:0189890 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0189890 HTTPS https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0189890 documentation information US National Oceanographic Data Center https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/ HTTPS US National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) website Institution web page information author NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) publisher documentDigital crossReference collection Draft interim analytical methods manual for the ocean disposal permit program; Washington, D.C.: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1974 1974 publication https://discover.library.noaa.gov/permalink/01NOAA_INST/1qbesct/alma991000446409707381 HTTPS Analytical methods manual for the ocean disposal permit program NOAA Central Library: ca. 600 p.; ill.; 28 cm information NOAA Library https://library.noaa.gov/ HTTPS NOAA Library website Institution web page information publisher crossReference collection eng; USA utf8 environment oceans climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere biota -122.432778 -66.033333 30.138333 48.3 1977-02-12 1981-08-10 The publication(s) listed below are related to the data collection and are available from the NOAA Central Library: W. Redwood Wright, 1983 Nantucket Shoals Flux Experiment Data Report 1: Hydrography. Woods Hole, Mass. : U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Center ; Springfield, Va. : Available from the National Technical Information Service, 1983. Draft interim analytical methods manual for the ocean disposal permit program. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, [1974]. Note: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM). Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information accurately represents all available information from the legacy database at the time that this description was created. 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Points of contact for this dataset include: Contact info: Agency: US DOI; FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE - EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA REGION PI: N/A Address: address: 300 WATERGATE CENTER DRIVE city: HADLEY state: MA postal: 01035-9589 country: UNITED STATES Contact info: Agency: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTION; PACIFIC NORTHWEST LABORATORY PI: 417 Address: address: 429 WEST SEQUIM BAY ROAD city: SEQUIM state: WA postal: 98382 country: UNITED STATES Contact info: Agency: US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY - TRIANGLE PARK Address: address: METEOROLOGY AND ASSESSMENT DIVISION city: TRIANGE PARK state: NC postal: 27711 country: UNITED STATES Contact info: Agency: ENERGY RESOURCES CO. INC. PI: 283 Address: address: 185 ALEWIFE BROOK PARKWAY city: CAMBRIDGE state: MA postal: 02138 country: UNITED STATES Contact info: Agency: BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY PI: 521 Address: address: NOT AVAILABLE city: UPTON state: NY postal: NOT AVAILABLE country: UNITED STATES In this accession, NCEI has archived multiple versions of these data. The latest (and best) version of these data has the largest version number. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information +1-301-713-3277 ncei.info@noaa.gov pointOfContact In most cases, electronic downloads of the data are free. However, fees may apply for custom orders, data certifications, copies of analog materials, and data distribution on physical media. Contact NCEI for other distribution options and instructions. F004 MULDARS Water Physics and Chemistry Data Format (F004) F028 MULDARS Phytoplankton Data Format (F028) F144 MULDARS Marine Toxic Substances and Pollutants Data Format (F144) 1.5 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/8500078 HTTPS Web browser NCEI Dataset Landing Page Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. information https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/8500078 HTTPS Web browser Descriptive Information Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. information https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/8500078 HTTPS Web browser HTTPS Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. download ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/nodc/archive/arc0001/8500078/ FTP Any FTP client FTP These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). download dataset NCEI Accession 8500078 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 8500078 v1.1 publication https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/8500078/1.1 HTTPS NCEI Accession 8500078 v1.1 published 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z download NCEI Accession 8500078 was revised and v2.2 was published. Updates were received for this dataset. These updates were copied into the data/0-data/ directory of this accession. These updates may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. This version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. All of the files received prior to this update are available in the preceding version of this accession. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 8500078 v2.2 publication https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/8500078/2.2 HTTPS NCEI Accession 8500078 v2.2 published 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z download NCEI Accession 8500078 was revised and v2.3 was published. Additional metadata files were received or created for this dataset. These updates were copied into the about/ directory of this accession. These updates may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. This version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. All of the files received prior to this update are available in the preceding version of this accession. 2013-03-19T14:58:10Z NCEI Accession 8500078 v2.3 publication https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/8500078/2.3 HTTPS NCEI Accession 8500078 v2.3 published 2013-03-19T14:58:10Z download NCEI Accession 8500078 was revised and v2.4 was published. Additional metadata files were received or created for this dataset. These updates were copied into the about/ directory of this accession. These updates may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. This version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. All of the files received prior to this update are available in the preceding version of this accession. 2023-02-10T22:31:49Z NCEI Accession 8500078 v2.4 publication https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/8500078/2.4 HTTPS NCEI Accession 8500078 v2.4 published 2023-02-10T22:31:49Z download repository NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information NOAA created the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by merging NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), and National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), including the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC), per the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, Public Law 113-235. NCEI launched publicly on April 22, 2015. 2015-04-22T00:00:00 asNeeded Metadata are developed, maintained and distributed by NCEI. Updates are performed as needed to maintain currentness. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information custodian bottle bottle any type of water bottle sampling device Generic name for water collection device; usually used to determine temperature, salinity and provide water aliquots for measurement of a wide range of parameters; often referred to by a specific type of water sampling bottle, such as a Nansen or Niskin bottle. laboratory analysis laboratory analysis use as an observation type meteorological sensor meteorological sensor Any meteorological sensor, but also see specific instruments such as aerovane, anemometer, etc. net - plankton net net - plankton net net - plankton net salinometer salinometer generic salinometer use salinometer when the instrument type used is unclear but the data include salinity measurements sediment sampler - corer sediment sampler - corer sediment coring device gravity or other coring device used to collect surfacial and near-surficial sediment samples sediment sampler - grab sediment sampler - grab grab sampler is used to take a sample of surficial seafloor sediments trawl trawl A fishing net that is dragged behind a boat. A wide range of demersal (bottom) or pelagic (mid-water) species of fish are taken by this fishing method which entails one or a pair of vessels towing a large bag-shaped net either along the seafloor or in mid-water. visual analysis visual analysis visual analysis and measurement of sample materials use visual analysis with observation types of visual estimate and/or visual observation FIXED PLATFORM OF UNITED STATES FIXED PLATFORM OF UNITED STATES GYRE Flag: United States Vessel Type: Oceanographic Research IMO: 7318999 DOB: 1973-10 NOAA Ship Albatross IV Updated information from ICES for UNITED STATES platform ALBATROSS IV Flag : UNITED STATES - US (ISO Country Code) Notes : 1963-02-27-present, WMVF Built: 1962-04 Title: NOAA Ship Platform Class: RESEARCH VESSEL Info Source Type: URL Pennant: R 342 Call Sign: WMVF IMO: 7338690 Current Length: 57.0 Info Source: http://www.moc.noaa.gov/al/index.html Decommissioned: 2008-11-20 Commissioned: 1963-05 Notes: Decommissioned in a ceremony November 20, 2008 at the Woods Hole Laboratory of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), the ship's home port. NOAA Ship George B. Kelez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAAS_George_B._Kelez_(R_441) NOAAS George B. Kelez (R 441), previously NOAAS George B. Kelez (CRS 41), was an American research vessel in commission in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) fleet from 1972 to 1980. Prior to her NOAA career, she operated under the United States Fish and Wildlife Service′s Bureau of Commercial Fisheries from 1962 to 1970 as US FWS George B. Kelez and the National Marine Fisheries Service from 1970 to 1972 as NOAAS George B. Kelez (CRS 41). UNKNOWN PLATFORMS OF UNITED STATES UNKNOWN PLATFORMS OF UNITED STATES USCGC Alert Hull Classification: WMEC-630. Commissioned on 04 August 1969 and the current status is active.