The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office
(BCODMO) staff members work with investigators to publish data from
research projects funded by the Biological and Chemical Oceanography
Sections at the U.S. National Science Foundation. The data sets
and supporting documentation from oceanographic research projects are
freely available from this database. The data available here are
intended solely for scholarly use by the academic and scientific
community, with the express understanding that any such use will
properly acknowledge the originating Investigator. Anyone wishing
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(PI). It is expected that all customary courtesies and privileges
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To locate data sets of interest use the navigation links in the
column on the left or a link below if you are interested in results from
a particular research project.
The database currently includes data contributed from these research
initiatives:
Programs and associated projects
Census of Marine Life
(CoML)
Census of Marine Zooplankton
(CMarZ)
International Indian Ocean Expedition
(IIOE)
Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Organization
(CAMEO)
An Integrative Approach to Managing the Dewatering of Estuaries
(DewaterEst)
Building the Foundation in N. California Current Shelf-Slope-Oceanic Ecosystems
(CalCurEco)
CAMEO: Building the Foundation: An End-to-End Modeling Workshop
(CAMWkshp)
Comparative Dynamics of Ecosystem Components from the Northeast Atlantic Shelf and Pacific Coast: New Approaches to Forecasting and Understanding Variability and Structure in Marine Ecosystems
(EcoCompDyn)
Mechanisms for low-frequency variability of forage fish: A comparative analysis of North Pacific sardine systems
(ForageFish)
New statistical tools for analyzing community dynamics with applications to marine zooplankton
(StatsCommDyn)
Role of predator-prey interactions in marine ecosystem organization: development of a new toolbox and a comparison of key interactions in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska ecosystems.
(RolePredPrey)
Historical datasets
(Historical)
Clarke-Bumpus Georges Bank
(CBGB)
Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research
(IMBER)
Amazon iNfluence on the Atlantic: CarbOn export from Nitrogen fixation by DiAtom Symbioses
(ANACONDAS)
Iron Synthesis
(FeSynth)
European Iron Enrichment Experiment
(EISENEX)
European Iron Fertilization Experiment
(EIFEX)
Iron Experiment I
(IronExI)
Iron Experiment II
(IronExII)
Southern Ocean Iron Experiment
(SOFeX)
Southern Ocean Iron Release Experiment
(SOIREE)
Sub-Arctic Ecosystem Response to Iron Enrichment Study
(SERIES )
Subarctic Pacific Iron Experiment for Ecosystem Dynamics Study II
(SEEDS 2004)
Subarctic-Pacific Iron Experiment for Ecosystem Dynamics Study I
(SEEDS 2001)
Surface-Ocean Lower-Atmosphere Studies Air-Sea Gas Exchange (Experiment)
(SAGE)
Long Term Ecological Research network
(LTER)
California Current Ecosystem Long Term Ecological Research site
(CCE LTER)
Palmer Antarctica Long Term Ecological Research site
(Palmer LTER)
NACP-OCB Coastal Synthesis
(NACP-OCB Coastal)
Gulf of Mexico NACP-OCB Coastal Synthesis
(GMx NACP-OCB)
National Marine Fisheries Service / Northeast Fisheries Science Center
(NMFS/NEFSC)
EcoMon Zooplankton
(EcoMon Zooplankton)
Hydrography
(Hydrography)
NGOMEX - Living Marine Resources of the Northern Gulf of Mexico
(NGOMEX)
North American Carbon Program
(NACP)
Gulf of Mexico NACP-OCB Coastal Synthesis
(GMx NACP-OCB)
NorthEast Consortium
(NEC)
NorthEast Consortium
(NEC)
Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry
(OCB)
A new center for ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry in the geosciences
(OCB-011)
A study of the sensitivity of Sub-Antarctic Zone waters to global change
(SAZ-SENSE)
Aerosol Deposition Impacts on Phytoplankton Productivity and Ecosystem Structure
(OCB-010)
Amazon iNfluence on the Atlantic: CarbOn export from Nitrogen fixation by DiAtom Symbioses
(ANACONDAS)
Application of novel satellite carbon biomass to develop ecosystem models capable of predicting climate change
(OCB-001)
Atlantic Meridional Transect programme
(AMT)
Atmospheric aerosol deposition rates and chemistry in western Atlantic trade winds
(OCB-033)
Australian Integrated Marine Observing System Facility-Southern Ocean Time Series
(IMOS-SOTS)
Autonomous pH and alkalinity sensors: In situ testing and carbon cycle research
(OCB-005)
California Current Ecosystem Long Term Ecological Research site
(CCE LTER)
Carbon cycling in the North Atlantic from regional to basin scales: Satellite data, in situ observations, and numerical models
(OCB-022)
Carbon Dioxide Dynamics in Mode Water of the North Atlantic Ocean
(CarboMODE)
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center - Global Ocean CO2
(CDIAC Ocean CO2)
CArbon Retention In A Colored Ocean Project
(CARIACO)
Carbon-climate interactions with increasing water demand
(OCB-006)
Cobalt, Iron and Micro-organisms from the Upwelling zone to the Gyre
(CoFeMUG)
Coccolithophores of the Patagonian Shelf 2008
(COPAS08)
Controls of Ross Sea Algal Community Structure
(CORSACS)
Coral Reef Primary Production and Calcification
(CRPPC)
Decadal Changes in the Equatorial Pacific Planktonic Ecosystem Structure and Functioning
(OCB-046)
DIMES, Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing in the Southern Ocean
(DIMES)
Diversity of biogeochemical processes: Modeling multiple biomes on multiple flow scales in the eastern Pacific Ocean
(OCB-007)
Do coupled climate models correctly simulate the upward branch of the deep ocean global conveyor?
(OCB-034)
Does competition for nitrogen between autotrophs and heterotrophs control carbon fluxes in the western coastal Arctic?
(OCB-051)
Early detection of ocean acidification effects on marine calcification and deep-sea carbonate dissolution
(OCB-047)
Eastern Tropical Pacific
(ETP)
Eastern U.S. Continental Shelf Carbon Budget: Modeling, data assimilation, and analysis
(OCB-016)
Eddies Dynamics, Mixing, Export, and Species composition
(EDDIES)
Estuarine air-sea CO2 fluxes: Evaluating the impact of climatological drivers spanning multiple temporal scales using ships-of-opportunity and remote sensing
(OCB-030)
FeCycle II- Natural variability in plankton iron quotas during an unamended Lagrangian experiment
(FeCycle II)
Gulf of Mexico NACP-OCB Coastal Synthesis
(GMx NACP-OCB)
High-resolution modeling of the Southern Ocean carbon cycle based on ECCO state estimates
(OCB-018)
Improved observations and understanding of northeast Pacific coastal CO2 fluxes
(OCB-039)
In situ measurements of oxygen and nitrate with profiling floats deployed at ocean time-series stations
(OCB-019)
Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research
(IMBER)
Iron in the Equatorial Undercurrent
(OCB-028)
MedFlux collaborative research project
(MedFlux)
Modeling ocean particle export flux by combining particle aggregation and biogeochemical models
(OCB-002)
Modeling the carbon cycle and climate: Ocean processes to global predictions
(OCB-023)
Near-surface controls of air-sea CO2 exchange
(OCB-004)
Nitrogen fixation and its coupling with denitrification in the eastern tropical North Pacific
(OCB-032)
North Atlantic Bloom Experiment 2008
(NAB08)
Ocean circulation, oxygen and nutrient cycles during the last glacial
(OCB-037)
Oceanic diazotroph community structure and activities in a high carbon dioxide world
(DIAZOTROPHS-CO2)
On the importance of submesoscale processes for ocean productivity
(OCB-050)
Optical and Nutrient Dependence of Quantum Efficiency
(ONDEQUE)
Organic Matter Composition, Recycling Susceptibility, and the Effectiveness of the Biological Pump
(OCB-031)
Palmer Antarctica Long Term Ecological Research site
(Palmer LTER)
Primary Production Model Intercomparison: Primary Production Algorithm Round Robin 4
(PPARR4)
Primary Productivity Analysis and Predictions from an Assimilative Biogeochemical Ocean General Circulation Model
(OCB-012)
Processes, feedbacks and air-sea carbon dioxide exchange in the land-coastal ocean system
(OCB-021)
Quantification of Trichodesmium spp. vertical and horizontal abundance patterns and nitrogen fixation in the western North Atlantic
(Trichodesmium)
Quantifying and understanding the impacts of large-scale climate variability on the global carbon cycle
(OCB-040)
Reducing the global carbon cycle uncertainties: Understanding the tropical ocean-atmosphere CO2 fluxes
(OCB-045)
Remote sensing of Southern Ocean air-sea CO2 fluxes
(OCB-038)
Satellite assessment of CO2 distribution, variability and flux and understanding of control mechanisms in a river dominated ocean margin
(OCB-003)
Seasonal to decadal variations of the oceanic pCO2 and air-sea flux of CO2 in the equatorial Pacific
(OCB-044)
Simulating and assessing the carbon cycle off the west coast of North America
(OCB-025)
Simulating and assessing the carbon cycle off the west coast of North America
(OCB-048)
Sources of Iron to the EasterN tropical Atlantic
(SIRENA)
Southern Ocean Climate Process and Modeling Team
(SO-CPT)
Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment
(SO_GasEx)
Southern Ocean Iron Experiment
(SOFeX)
Stoichiometry of Oceanic Remineralization by Non-Linear Global Optimization on an Improved Data Set
(OCB-036)
The carbon balance of Lake Superior: Modeling lake processes and understanding impacts on the regional carbon budget
(OCB-024)
The Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT): Sustaining ocean ecosystem and climate observations in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
(HOT)
The influence of large scale environmental changes on carbon export in the North Pacific Ocean: A comprehensive study using shipboard and remote sensing data
(OCB-013)
The role of mesoscale processes in controlling the upper ocean carbon cycle in the coastal environment: An integrated study in Santa Monica Bay, CA
(OCB-014)
The role of phytoplankton ballast material in deterring copepod grazing
(OCB_049)
Twilight Zone EXplorer
(TZEX)
U.S. Global Repeat Hydrographic/CO2/Tracer Surveys: Deep ocean DOM distribution and dynamics
(OCB-015)
VERtical Transport In the Global Ocean
(VERTIGO)
U.S. GEOTRACES
(U.S. GEOTRACES)
Cobalt, Iron and Micro-organisms from the Upwelling zone to the Gyre
(CoFeMUG)
GEOTRACES InterCalibration
(GEOTRACES IC)
U.S. GEOTRACES Atlantic Section 2010
(U.S. GEOTRACES Atlantic 2010)
U.S. GLOBal ocean ECosystems dynamics
(U.S. GLOBEC)
U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank
(GB)
U.S. GLOBEC Northeast Pacific
(NEP)
U.S. GLOBEC Southern Ocean
(SOGLOBEC)
U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
(U.S. JGOFS)
U.S. JGOFS Antarctic Environment and Southern Ocean Process Study
(AESOPS)
U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea
(Arabian Sea)
U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific
(EqPac)
U.S. JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment
(NABE)
U.S. JGOFS Synthesis and Modeling
(SMP)
United States Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study
(U.S. SOLAS)
Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment
(SO_GasEx)
Surface-Ocean Lower-Atmosphere Studies Air-Sea Gas Exchange (Experiment)
(SAGE)
Projects not associated with a program
B-307: Salpa thompsoni in the Southern Ocean
(SouthernSalps)
Biocomplexity of Aquatic Microbial Systems
(BAMS)
Biological response to regime shifts and ENSO events in the Peruvian Humboldt Current ecosystem
(PCE)
Biology and Ecology of Newly Discovered Diazotrophs in the Open Ocean
(DIAZOTROPHS)
Bodega Ocean Acidification Research
(BOAR)
Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education
(C-MORE)
Collaborative Research: Plankton Community Structure and Iron Distribution in the Southern Drake Passage and Scotia Sea
(Ant2006)
DOP Utilization in the Sargasso Sea: Quantifying Taxon-specific Rates of Hydrolysis and Uptake
(ATP3)
ECOHAB - Gulf of Maine
(ECOHAB_GoM)
ECOHAB - Pacific Northwest
(ECOHAB_PNW)
Experimentally linking identification and function of marine bacteria
()
Initiation of a pH/pCO2-sensing mooring platform on the Oregon coast
(PISCO)
New Production During Winter Convective Mixing Events
(NP)
North Atlantic Spring Bloom 2005
(NASB 2005)
Regional Ecology And Coastal Hydrography
(REACH)
Relating Microbial Biodiversity to Biological Oceanographic Processes
(Bacterial Distribution Patterns)
River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems
(RISE)
Salp Swarm Dynamics
(SalpSwarmDyn)