Dataset: Formaminiferal Flux acquired by the Santa Barbara Basin Sediment Trap Mooring between 2014 and 2021

Release Date:2025-07-31Final no updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.936276.1Version 1 (2024-10-08)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator, Scientist: Catherine Davis (North Carolina State University)

Scientist: Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson (University of South Carolina)

Scientist, Student, Technician, Data Manager: Emily Havard (North Carolina State University)

Technician: Katherine Cherry (North Carolina State University)

Technician: Eric Tappa (University of South Carolina)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Karen Soenen (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Collaborative Research: Three decades of foraminiferal assemblages in the Santa Barbara Basin provide a link between present and past (planktic foram assemblages)


Abstract

The geologically rapid response of foraminiferal assemblages to changing climate makes their shells an invaluable geological record of the past. However, just how rapid these changes are is unknown and the specific drivers of assemblage composition and abundance are complex. Understanding how modern foraminifera respond to and record a climate event that would appear nearly instantaneous in the sediment record can inform paleontological interpretations and help to place foraminifera in a broader...

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Similar datasets of planktic foraminiferal flux from the Santa Barbara Basin Sediment Trap: 1993-1996 (Kincaid et al., 2000) and 1995-1998 (Black et al., 2001). See related dataset section.


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Dataset: https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<1075:PFRTTE>2.0.CO;2
Black, D. E., Thunell, R. C., & Tappa, E. J. (2001). Planktonic foraminiferal response to the 1997–1998 El Niño: A sediment-trap record from the Santa Barbara Basin. Geology, 29(12), 1075. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<1075:pfrtte>2.0.co;2
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Dataset: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0645(99)00140-X
Kincaid, E., Thunell, R. C., Le, J., Lange, C. B., Weinheimer, A. L., & Reid, F. M. H. (2000). Planktonic foraminiferal fluxes in the Santa Barbara Basin: response to seasonal and interannual hydrographic changes. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 47(5–6), 1157–1176. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0967-0645(99)00140-x

Related Publications

Results

Havard, E., Cherry, K., Benitez-Nelson, C., Tappa, E., and Davis, C.V.: Decreasing foraminiferal flux in response to ongoing climate change in the Santa Barbara Basin, California, in preparation for submission to Biogeosciences, 2024.