Entry_ID: ARCSS029
Entry_Title: Arctic Ocean Section Porewater Chemistry Data, 1994
Group: Data_Set_Citation
   Dataset_Creator: John P. Christensen
   Dataset_Title: Arctic Ocean Section Porewater Chemistry Data, 1994
   Dataset_Release_Date: 2004-07-27
   Dataset_Release_Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
   Dataset_Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
   Online_Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/arcss029.html
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Group: Personnel
   Role: Investigator
   First_Name: John
   Middle_Name: P.
   Last_Name: Christensen
   Email: jchristensen@bigelow.org
   Phone: 1 207 636-9600 
   Fax: 1 703  306-0648 
   Group: Contact_Address
      Address: Bigelow Laboratory for Marine Science
      Address: 180 McKowan Point
      Address: 4201 Wilson Boulevard
      City: West Boothbay Harbor
      Province_or_State: ME
      Postal_Code: 04575
   End_Group
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Group: Personnel
   Role: Technical Contact
   First_Name: NSIDC
   Last_Name: User Services
   Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
   Phone: 1 303 492-6199 x
   Fax: 1 303  492-2468 x
   Group: Contact_Address
      Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center
      Address: CIRES, 449 UCB
      Address: University of Colorado
      City: Boulder
      Province_or_State: CO
      Postal_Code: 80309-0449
      Country: USA
   End_Group
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Oceans
   Term: Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography
   Variable_Level_1: Water Depth
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Oceans
   Term: Marine Sediments
   Variable_Level_1: Sedimentary Structures
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Oceans
   Term: Marine Sediments
   Variable_Level_1: Sediment Chemistry
End_Group
Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Oceans
   Term: Ocean Chemistry
   Variable_Level_1: Oxygen
End_Group
Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Oceans
   Term: Ocean Chemistry
   Variable_Level_1: Phosphate
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Oceans
   Term: Ocean Chemistry
   Variable_Level_1: Trace Elements
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ISO_Topic_Category: Oceans
Keyword: ADCC
Keyword: ARCSS029
Keyword: ARCSS Data Coordination Center
Keyword: diagenetic process
Keyword: Office of Polar Programs
Keyword: OPP
Keyword: OPP-9400058
Keyword: porewater
Keyword: Sediment
Sensor_Name: NISKIN BOTTLES
Sensor_Name: SEDIMENT CORERS
Source_Name: SHIPS
Group: Temporal_Coverage
   Start_Date: 1994-07-30
   Stop_Date: 1994-08-26
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Data_Set_Progress: complete
Group: Spatial_Coverage
   Southernmost_Latitude: 75.3665
   Northernmost_Latitude: 88.8066
   Westernmost_Longitude: -174.2983
   Easternmost_Longitude: 178.99
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Group: Location
   Location_Category: OCEAN
   Location_Type: ARCTIC OCEAN
   Detailed_Location: CENTRAL
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Project: ARCSS/OAII/AOS > Arctic System Science/OAII/Arctic Ocean Section
Data_Set_Language: English
Originating_Center: NSIDC
Group: Data_Center
   Data_Center_Name: NSIDC > National Snow and Ice Data Center
   Data_Center_URL: http://nsidc.org
   Group: Personnel
      Role: Data Center Contact
      First_Name: NSIDC
      Last_Name: User Services
      Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
      Phone: 1 303 492-6199 
      Fax: 1 303  492-2468 
      Group: Contact_Address
         Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center
         Address: CIRES, 449 UCB
         Address: University of Colorado
         City: Boulder
         Province_or_State: CO
         Postal_Code: 80309-0449
         Country: USA
      End_Group
   End_Group
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Group: Data_Center
   Data_Center_Name: NSIDC_ARCSS > NSIDC Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center
   Data_Center_URL: http://nsidc.org/arcss/
   Group: Personnel
      Role: Data Center Contact
      First_Name: NSIDC ARCSS
      Last_Name: User Services
      Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
      Phone: 1 303 492-6199 
      Fax: 1 303  492-2468 
      Group: Contact_Address
         Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center
         Address: CIRES, 449 UCB
         Address: University of Colorado
         City: Boulder
         Province_or_State: CO
         Postal_Code: 80309-0449
         Country: USA
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Group: Distribution
   Distribution_Media: FTP
   Distribution_Size: 40 - 282 KB
   Distribution_Format: ASCII Text
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Group: Summary

   This data set contains data collected during the joint Canadian-U.S. Arctic 
   Ocean Section 1994 cruise in the central Arctic ocean. The purpose of the 
   research was to provide the first description of porewater chemistry and 
   diagenetic processes in near-surface sediments of the central ice-covered 
   Arctic Ocean. Thirteen subcores from boxcores were collected. Analyses for a 
   variety of solutes from the pore waters (oxygen, dissolved iron and manganese, 
   phosphate, and titration alkalinity) were conducted on board.

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Metadata_Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata_Version: 9.7
DIF_Creation_Date: 2004-07-27
Last_DIF_Revision_Date: 2012-05-25
DIF_Revision_History: corrected dist. size