gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:24431 eng UTF8 gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:68639 dataset Files Southeast Fisheries Science Center (305)361-5761 75 Virginia Beach Drive Miami FL 33149 USA www.sefsc.noaa.gov WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Website Website for this organization information 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST resourceProvider Gerard, Trika 305-361-4493 305-365-4103 75 Virginia Beach Drive Miami FL 33149 USA trika.gerard@noaa.gov pointOfContact 2026-03-04T19:17:18 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for imagery and gridded data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) Data From Cruise NF-09-03, April 7-20, 2009 NF-09-03 Data 2010 publication NOAA/NMFS/EDM 24431 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/24431 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Full Metadata Record View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. information Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory 305-361-4420 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway Miami FL 33149 https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory Website Website listed for Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory information originator Southeast Fisheries Science Center (305)361-5761 75 Virginia Beach Drive Miami FL 33149 USA https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/about/southeast-fisheries-science-center WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Southeast Fisheries Science Center Website About SEFSC information 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST originator https://www.coris.noaa.gov/metadata/records/html/nmfs_fgdc_metadata_ctd_usvi_2008.html WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Uncalibrated CTDO2 data collected aboard the NOAA Ship NANCY FOSTER during cruise #NF0805, March 11-28, 2008. Provides metadata on CTDO2 colection download tableDigital DATASET CONTRIBUTORS: Ryan Smith, Elizabeth Johns, John Lamkin, Trika Gerard (NOAA/OAR/AOML & NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC) Biologic, LADCP. CNV and TSG data collected from plankton collecting gear aboard the NOAA Ship NANCY FOSTER during cruise #NF-09-03, April 7th - April 20th, 2009 as part of the Coral Reef Ecosystem Research (CRER) project. The United States Virgin Islands' (USVI) Grammanik Bank, located to the south of St. Thomas, is the site of multi-species spawning aggregation for economically important fish including yellowfin grouper, Nassau grouper, tiger grouper, and dog snapper. Fishing pressure at this suspected source of larval recruits prompted the Caribbean Fisheries Council in 2004 to close the bank yearly from February - April. A series of banks south of the USVI (St. Thomas and St. John) and the British Virgin Islands (BVI) provide similar habitats and spawning aggregation sites. Unfortunately, the biological and physical processes which drive production on these banks, the circulation connecting these banks, and the flows across these banks have yet to be quantified. Absent such data, management decisions (including Marine Protected Area [MPA] designations and temporary closures) are presently based on professional judgment rather than quantifiable, defensible scientific information. To address this data gap, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists from the Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) and Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, Florida, working with scientists from the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) in St. Thomas will be conducting a three-year interdisciplinary research project using the R/V NANCY FOSTER to conduct biological and physical oceanographic surveys of the Virgin Islands' (VI) bank ecosystems and surrounding regional waters. The long-term sustainability of fisheries in the VI and surrounding regions will depend on a comprehensive understanding of regional spawning aggregations, larval transport, and overall larval recruitment in the study area. The project will be directed at answering one over-arching question: How are unprotected VI banks, MPAs such as the Hind Bank Marine Conservation District, seasonally closed areas such as the Grammanik Bank, and inshore areas ecologically linked via regional reef fish larval dispersal, transport, and life-history patterns? To gain the information necessary to develop more specific hypotheses, the second research cruise of this project was conducted between March 11, 2008 and March 28, 2008 aboard the R/V NANCY FOSTER. This survey sampled water properties, currents, and dispersal and transport of settlement-stage larvae in the VI and neighboring regions. It should yield not only an understanding of regional spatial variation in the supply of settlement-stage fishes, but also insights into the relative importance of Grammanik Bank and its MPAs as a source of juvenile fishes recruiting to the waters of the VI. Specifically, the cruise will address the following questions: 1) How do the abundance and composition of ichthyoplankton around Grammanik Bank and other similar banks change with space and time? 2) How much of this variation in abundance and composition can be explained by the oceanographic setting? 3) How do the oceanography and ichthyoplankton assemblages interface with the boundary areas of seasonally or permanently closed MPAs? This survey included neuston, bongo, and MOCNESS trawl tows, as well as CTDO2/LADCP casts measuring, temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, light transmission, chlorophyll, and water velocity. Continuous surface measurements of temperature, salinity, light transmission, chlorophyll, and water velocity werel also collected via the ship's flow-through system and hull-mounted ADCP. Satellite imagery of sea surface temperature, altimetry, and ocean color was used to aid in the interpretation of and extrapolation from shipboard observations. Identification and analysis of samples and shipboard data analysis commenced immediately after the cruise and should be completed by the end of 2009. Initially, the success of the project will be measured by the extent of the surveys made and the number of samples collected, as well as the utility and quality of useful information generated from analysis of the data collected. Settlement-stage larvae collected from inshore sampling will constitute another measure of success for the field study portion of this project. Determination of the utility of stable isotope analysis of these larvae will provide an additional benchmark. The synthesis of these data, to determine the location and relative importance of spawning sites, and the incorporation of this information into fisheries oceanographic models that help local resource managers in making decisions as to MPA sites and optimal seasonal closures with respect to time and place, will provide the ultimate measure of project success. In addition, it is our intention that all data generated and analyzed will be published in peer-reviewed literature. We consider this an essential step both to guarantee data quality and to assure that management decisions based on this information are defensible. completed Gerard, Trika 305-361-4493 305-365-4103 75 Virginia Beach Drive Miami FL 33149 USA trika.gerard@noaa.gov pointOfContact Smith, Ryan H (305) 361-4328 (305) 361-4392 4301 Rickenbacker Cswy Miami FL 33149-1026 United States ryan.smith@noaa.gov custodian notPlanned EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > DENSITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > OCEAN SALINITY theme Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords 17.0 OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA place Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords 20.8 CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth instrument Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Instrument Keywords 17.2 Nancy Foster > NOAA Ship Nancy Foster platform Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Platform Keywords 17.2 Numeric Data Sets > Oceanography theme CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus COUNTRY/TERRITORY > British Overseas Territory > British Virgin Islands > Anegada > Anegada (18N064W0001) 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 > Anegada > Anegada (18N064W0001) OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > Lesser Antilles > U. S. Virgin Islands (17N064W0000) place CoRIS Place Thesaurus CRER CTD data Coral Reef Ecosystem Research CTD data theme 2010 temporal Anegada Passage Caribbean Sea Leeward Islands Virgin Islands place DOC/NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC > Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce dataCentre Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords 2017-04-24 publication 8.5 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 22. 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 Coral Reef Ecosystem Research Consisting Of Biologic Data, LADCP, SADCP, and Flowthrough Data from Nancy Foster in Caribbean Sea from 2007-03-30 to 2011-05-07 (NCEI Accession 0273560) project InPort otherRestrictions Cite As: Southeast Fisheries Science Center, [Date of Access]: Data From Cruise NF-09-03, April 7-20, 2009 [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/24431. NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose. otherRestrictions Access Constraints: None otherRestrictions Use Constraints: N/A otherRestrictions Distribution Liability: Data were collected for scientific purposes only and should only be used for general scientific interest/endeavors. NOAA/OAR/AOML & NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC cannot be held liable for use of these data in any other manner. unclassified Not applicable Not applicable NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) NOAA/NMFS/EDM 24431 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/sefsc/dmp/pdf/24431.pdf WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. information crossReference eng; US oceans -65.207 -62.947 17.223 18.923 US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Anegada Passage, Leeward Islands and Saba Bank | Currentness: Ground Condition 2009-04-07 2009-04-20 false eng false Other CTD Data 2009 2023-01-12 publication LADCP Data 2009 2023-01-12 publication NF0903_OS150_surface_vels.asc 2023-01-12 publication NF0903_TSG.xls 2023-01-12 publication NF0903_FISH_DATA_REPORT.xls 2023-01-12 publication Multiple formats Zip Zip NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information distributor https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0273560/1.1/data/0-data/NF0903_State_Dept_CD/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0273560/1.1/data/0-data/NF0903_State_Dept_CD/ download https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0273560/1.1/data/0-data/zipped_files_for_download/NF0903_State_Dept_CD/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0273560/1.1/data/0-data/zipped_files_for_download/NF0903_State_Dept_CD/ Zipped ctd files Zipped CTD plots - Zipped ladcp data download dataset Accuracy Attribute Accuracy: Data have been processed using the Sea-Bird Data Processing suite. Data have not been calibrated to bottle samples. Horizontal Positional Accuracy: The exact location of each CTD cast is shown in the header of each data file. This location is determined from the ship's GPS and should be considered very accurate. Positions of CTD casts recorded in the data files correspond with the beginning of each cast. As the ship may drift on station, the position of the CTD will change in time over the course of the cast. As such the position information is only accurate for the beginning of the cast (i.e. when the CTD package first enters the water). This accuracy is on the order of 10 meters. Geographical accuracy was determined by GPS NMEA data Vertical Positional Accuracy: pressures (depth proxy) are determined using the Sea-Bird 9plus pressure gauge. pressures (depth proxy) are accurate to within 1db Completeness Report N/A Conceptual Consistency N/A Data were collected using a Sea-Bird 9/11plus CTD system aboard the NOAA Ship NANCY FOSTER. The data were processed using Sea-Bird's Data Processing suite. The exact procedures utilized are outlined in the header of each data file. 2008-03-01T00:00:00 otherRestrictions Access Constraints: None |