Dataset: Planktic foraminifer shell d15N from Oceanic Flux Program (OFP) sediment traps in the Sargasso Sea

Final no updates expectedDOI: 10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.747341.1Version 1 (2018-10-02)Dataset Type:Cruise Results

Principal Investigator: Daniel M. Sigman (Princeton University)

Contact: Sandi M. Smart (Stellenbosch University)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Understanding the nitrogen isotopes of planktonic foraminifera: A modern Sargasso Sea study (N Isotopes Foraminifera)


Abstract

Planktic foraminifer shell d15N from sediment traps in the Sargasso Sea (off Bermuda) in the western subtropical North Atlantic. Sediment traps from 500 m, 1500 m, and 3200 m water depth (31°50’N, 64°10’W).

Planktic foraminifer shell d15N from sediment traps in the Sargasso Sea (off Bermuda) in the western subtropical North Atlantic. Sediment traps from 500 m, 1500 m, and 3200 m water depth (31°50’N, 64°10’W).

Data published in:
Smart, S.M., H. Ren, S.E. Fawcett, R. Schiebel, M. Conte, P.A. Rafter, K.K. Ellis, M.A. Weigand, S. Oleynik, G.H. Haug, D.M. Sigman (2018). Ground-truthing the planktic foraminifer-bound nitrogen isotope paleo-proxy in the Sargasso Sea, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.05.023


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Results

Smart, S. M., Ren, H., Fawcett, S. E., Schiebel, R., Conte, M., Rafter, P. A., … Sigman, D. M. (2018). Ground-truthing the planktic foraminifer-bound nitrogen isotope paleo-proxy in the Sargasso Sea. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 235, 463–482. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2018.05.023
Methods

Casciotti, K. L., Sigman, D. M., Hastings, M. G., Böhlke, J. K., & Hilkert, A. (2002). Measurement of the Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Nitrate in Seawater and Freshwater Using the Denitrifier Method. Analytical Chemistry, 74(19), 4905–4912. doi:10.1021/ac020113w
Methods

Conte, M. H., Ralph, N., & Ross, E. H. (2001). Seasonal and interannual variability in deep ocean particle fluxes at the Oceanic Flux Program (OFP)/Bermuda Atlantic Time Series (BATS) site in the western Sargasso Sea near Bermuda. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 48(8-9), 1471–1505. doi:10.1016/s0967-0645(00)00150-8
Methods

Conte, M., & Weber, J. (2014). Particle Flux in the Deep Sargasso Sea: The 35-Year Oceanic Flux Program Time Series. Oceanography, 27(1), 142–147. doi:10.5670/oceanog.2014.17
Methods

Knapp, A. N., Sigman, D. M., & Lipschultz, F. (2005). N isotopic composition of dissolved organic nitrogen and nitrate at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study site. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 19(1). doi:10.1029/2004gb002320