Project: Iron Experiment II

Acronym/Short Name:

IronExII

Start Date:

1995-05

End Date:

1995-06

Geolocation:

Equatorial Pacific Ocean

Programs:

Iron Synthesis [FeSynth]

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Description

One of two (see IronEx I Oct/Nov 1993) small scale iron fertilization experiments conducted
in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Summary:

5/14/95 Depart Papeete, Tahiti

5/14/95 to 5/23/95 Transit & Test stations

5/23/95 to 5/29/95 Survey for Fe release

5/29/95 to 5/30/95 Fe release #1

5/30/95 to 6/1/95 In & out sampling

6/1/95 to 6/1/95 Fe release #2

6/1/95 to 6/5/95 In & out sampling

6/5/95 to 6/5/95 Fe release #3

6/6/95 to 6/8/95 In & out sampling

6/8/95 to 6/9/95 Control patch (SF6 only), 2nd Fe patch release (0.4 nM Fe)

6/9/95 to 6/15/95 In & out sampling of all 3 patches

6/15/95 to 6/21/95 Transit to Acapulco, Mexico

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Dataset Collections

Dataset Short Name	Full Dataset Title
Carbon - no POC_new	Phytoplankton carbon content by type (no POC new) from the R/V Melville IronEx II cruise in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean in 1995 (IronEx II project)
Carbon - with POC_new	Phytoplankton carbon content by type (w/ POC new) from the R/V Melville IronEx II cruise in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean in 1995 (IronEx II project)
Carbon Comparisons	Comparison of calculated µM carbon between methods of Chavez et.al.(91) and Campbell et.al.(94) from the R/V Melville IronEx II cruise in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean in 1995 (IronEx II project)
Cast Log	Cast log from the R/V Melville IronEx II cruise in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean in 1995 (IronEx II project)
CO2	Underway CO2 data from the R/V Melville IronEx II cruise in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean in 1995 (IronEx II project)
CTD TM_Rosette Nutrients Chl	CTD, TM Rosette nutrients and chlorophyll data from the R/V Melville IronEx II cruise in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean in 1995 (IronEx II project)
Event Log	Event log from the R/V Melville IronEx II cruise in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean in 1995 (IronEx II project)
Inventory	Status of data contributions from the R/V Melville IronEx II cruise in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean in 1995 (IronEx II project)
Microbial Counts - Eukaryote	Microbial counts, Eukaryotes from the R/V Melville IronEx II cruise in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean in 1995 (IronEx II project)
Microbial Counts - Picophytoplankton	Microbial counts, Picophytoplankton from the R/V Melville IronEx II cruise in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean in 1995 (IronEx II project)
MLML Fe	Size fractionated particulate iron (Fe) data from the R/V Melville IronEx II cruise in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean in 1995 (IronEx II project)
Pennate growth rate	Pennate growth rate from the R/V Melville IronEx II cruise in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean in 1995 (IronEx II project)
Phytoplankton abundances	Phytoplankton abundances from the R/V Melville IronEx II cruise in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean in 1995 (IronEx II project)
POC	POC data from the R/V Melville IronEx II cruise in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean in 1995 (IronEx II project)

Deployments

Total: 1

Cruise/Deployment	Platform Type	Start Date	Chief/Co-chief Scientist
IronExII_MV	vessel	13 May 1995	Kenneth H. Coale

Project Coordinators

Person	Roles	Affiliation
Kenneth H. Coale	Lead Principal Investigator	Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML)
Ken Johnson	Co-Principal Investigator	Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
Evelyn Armstrong	Contact	University of Otago
Doug Mackie	Contact	University of Otago

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