Identification

Title

Benthic carbon fixation and cycling in diffuse hydrothermal and background sediments in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica in 2011

Alternative title(s)

British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_NE-J011307-1

Abstract

This dataset is comprised of carbon isotopic composition and concentration of samples from stable isotope pulse chase tracer experiments. Data are available for sediment macrofauna, dissolved inorganic carbon in overlying water, and phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) in the sediment. Experiments were conducted onboard RRS James Cook (JC055) from 13/01/2011 to 22/02/2011 at three sites in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica. Two of the sites lay on raised edifices, known as Hook Ridge and Middle Sister along the axis of the basin and included a diffuse hydrothermal site. A third site labelled as 'Off-Vent' others without hydrothermal vents was located along the north side of the basin, and was sampled as a control site. Sediment cores were recovered using a multiple corer for isotope tracing experiments. Duplicate cores were subject to two treatments; the 'algae' treatment with added algal detritus (simulating photosynthetic carbon) and the 'bicarbonate' treatment to simulate a substrate for benthic carbon fixation. Overlying water samples were analysed for concentration and isotopic composition of dissolved inorganic carbon. Frozen sediment samples were freeze dried and analysed for phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs). Sediment horizons between 0 and 10cm preserved in formalin were sieved and macrofauna were extracted. This work was carried out by Clare Woulds, James Bell, and Louise Brown at the University of Leeds, Adrian Glover at the Natural History Museum, and Steven Bouillon at KU Leuven. It was funded by the NERC Discovery Science project Tracer Studies of Biological Carbon Cycling in Chemosynthetic Communities of the Southern Ocean (grant reference NE/J013307/1) active from March 1, 2012 to February 28, 2015.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/98ccf93a-5e01-15e1-e053-6c86abc050ce/

name: Published dataset - doi:10.5285/98ccf93a-5e01-15e1-e053-6c86abc050ce

description: Woulds C., Bell J.B., Glover A., Bouillon S., Brown L.S. (2019). Benthic carbon fixation and cycling in diffuse hydrothermal and background sediments in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica on cruise JC055, January to February 2011 British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, UK. doi: 10/dgsn

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

EDMED6966

codeSpace

http://www.bodc.ac.uk/

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

OGP

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

geoscientificInformation

biota

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

MEDIN metadata record availability

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2012-01-11

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2009-07-31

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2023-12-12

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2020-05-21

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-59.0502

East bounding longitude

-57.2783

North bounding latitude

-62.1924

South bounding latitude

-62.6552

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

SeaVoX water bodies

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2024-12-11

code identifying the extent

Bransfield Strait

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2011-01-13

End position

2011-02-22

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2025-02-11

date type

creation

effective date

2019-12-03

date type

revision

effective date

2020-04-24

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

This dataset was created by scientists for the NERC Discovery Science project titled 'Tracer Studies of Biological Carbon Cycling in Chemosynthetic Communities of the Southern Ocean'(grant reference NE/J013307/1) following their in-house data processing and quality control procedures. The data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for long-term archive and data publication in the BODC Published Data Library. Some of the data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for ingestion into one of the schemas of the National Oceanographic Database (NODB). During ingestion BODC undertake quality control, documentation and metadata enhancement procedures appropriate to the type of data. For an overview please see http://www.bodc.ac.uk/about/information_technology/data_processing_steps/. BODC supply full information about data collection, data processing and data quality with all data requests to enable users to assess data suitability themselves.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

true

explanation

BODC protocols are based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model enabling BODC to iterate towards compliance with the on-going evolution and development of community requirements including FAIR (Findable,Accessible,Interoperable,Reusable), TRUST (Transparency, Responsibility, User community, Sustainability, Technology) and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics). Data managers quality assure submissions and assemble the metadata necessary for curation. Submissions (as received) are placed in a long-term accession and stored in triplicate across multiple sites. Appropriate data are transferred into a standard internal format with source variable names mapped to controlled vocabularies, documentation assembled, and metadata loaded into BODC databases. Access to these data is through direct request, the BODC website and through partner repositories such as SeaDataNet. Access control is attained by assigning a data policy to each set of data and this policy is used to administer access when data are requested. Discovery metadata is aligned with EU INSPIRE (through MEDIN) and SeaDataNet community standards. Data are converted to open community formats including Ocean Data View ASCII and SeaDataNet NetCDF, with data described using terms from the NERC vocabulary server. BODC submission agreements are documented on the BODC website and customer service is assured with a dedicated requests team that serve data following local regulations including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018 and Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004.

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Data are freely available

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

No conditions apply

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Unknown

organisation name

British Oceanographic Data Centre (National Oceanography Centre)

full postal address

University of Southampton Waterfront Campus

European Way

Southampton

SO14 3ZH

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)23 8059 6666

email address

bodcnocs@bodc.ac.uk

web address

https://www.bodc.ac.uk/

responsible party role

owner

Responsible party

contact position

Unknown

organisation name

British Oceanographic Data Centre (National Oceanography Centre)

full postal address

University of Southampton Waterfront Campus

European Way

Southampton

SO14 3ZH

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)23 8059 6666

email address

bodcnocs@bodc.ac.uk

web address

https://www.bodc.ac.uk/

responsible party role

originator

Responsible party

contact position

Director

organisation name

British Oceanographic Data Centre

full postal address

Joseph Proudman Building

6 Brownlow Street

Liverpool

L3 5DA

United Kingdom

email address

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

web address

https://www.bodc.ac.uk/

responsible party role

custodian

Responsible party

contact position

Director

organisation name

British Oceanographic Data Centre

full postal address

Joseph Proudman Building

6 Brownlow Street

Liverpool

L3 5DA

United Kingdom

email address

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

web address

https://www.bodc.ac.uk/

responsible party role

distributor

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Head of the BODC Requests Team

organisation name

British Oceanographic Data Centre

full postal address

Joseph Proudman Building

6 Brownlow Street

Liverpool

L3 5DA

United Kingdom

email address

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

web address

https://www.bodc.ac.uk/

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2025-02-11T12:09:36

Metadata language

eng