The South Atlantic subtropical gyre and Benguela Upwelling region were sampled for chemistry and biological properties relating to the trace metal nutrition and phytoplankton diversity and productivity. Specifically cobalt and iron dissolved seawater concentrations will be measured and related to the abundance of cyanobacteria including nitrogen fixers and eukaryotic phytoplankton. The phytoplankton of the Benguela Upwelling region were also examined to determine if their growth was iron or cobalt limited. A total of 27 station locations were occupied in the study area to collect the water chemistry and biological samples for these analyses (see cruise track). Iron and cobalt analyses will be conducted using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and cathodic stripping voltammetry electrochemical methods. The sample preparation and subsequent analyses are technically demanding, but data generated from the cruise samples are being contributed beginning in mid 2009.
The CoFeMUG KN192-5 cruise was supported by NSF OCE award # 0452883
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0452883
A station map showing the 27 sampling locations is available as a PDF file.
Original cruise data are available from the NSF R2R data catalog
CoFeMUG - South Atlantic 2007 Cruise Participant List
1. Mak Saito (Chief Scientist/WHOI)
2. Abigail Noble (Saito/WHOI)
3. Alysia Cox (Saito/WHOI)
4. Whitney Krey (Delong/Saito/MIT/WHOI)
5. Carl Lamborg (clamborg AT whoi.edu/WHOI)
6. Phoebe Lam (pjlam AT whoi.edu WHOI)
7. Chad Hammerschmidt (chammerschmidt AT whoi.edu, Wright State)
8. Caitlin Frame (cframe AT whoi.edu, WHOI/Casciotti Student)
9. Tyler Goepfert (tgoepfert AT whoi.edu Webb/Saito)
10. Jill Sohm (sohm AT usc.edu)
11. Maria Intermaggio
12. Jack DiTullio (leep AT cofc.edu U. Charleston)
13. Peter Lee (DiTullio U. Charleston)
14. Sarah Riseman (DiTullio U. Charleston)
15. Amanda McLenan (amanda.mclennon AT gmail.com, DiTullio U. Charleston)
16. Mike Seracki (Bigelow)
17. Nicole Poulton (Bigelow)
18. Juan Alba, juanalba AT usp.br (Bigelow)
19. Jane Heywood (Bigelow)
20. Gabrielle Rocap (rocap AT whoi.edu, U. Washington)
21. Emily Nahas (enahas AT u.washington.edu)
22. Michele Wrable (mlw22 AT u.washington.edu)
23. Bob Morris (rmorris AT lifesci.ucsb.edu)
24. Christian Frazar (Chris, U. Washington, Morris lab)
25. Jason Hilton (Zehr, UCSC)
26. Reserved for Angolan Observers
27. Reserved for Angolan Observers
Collecting GEOTRACES-compliant samples for:
1. Laura Robinson (Pa Th isotopes)
2. Bob Anderson (Pa Th isotopes - intercalibration)
3. Olivier Rouxel (Se and Fe isotopes)
4. Karen Casciotti (N isotopes)
5. Ben Reynolds (Si and Fe isotopes)
6. Chris Measures (Al)
7. Kristin Buck (FeL)
Dataset | Brief Description |
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cruise_report | Preliminary CoFeMUG cruise report |
event_log | Scientific sampling event log from the CoFeMUG cruise |
INVENTORY | Status of expected CoFeMug data contributions. |
nutrients and metals | Analysis of nutrients, Cobalt (total and labile), dissolved Iron, and dissolved Manganese from TM bottle samples. |
16S rRNA clone library | NCBI Accessions for 16S rRNA clone libraries made with bacterial 8F and 519R primers. |
Metaproteome | Microbial membrane-enriched metaproteome (< 0.8 um fraction) |
Pigments | HPLC analyses of algal pigment concentrations. |
Synechococcus_QPCR | Q-PCR counts of Synechococcus clades |
Dissolved iron speciation - CoFeMUG KN192-05 | Concentrations of dissolved iron-binding ligands and their respective conditional stability constants in upper water column: CoFeMUG stations. |
Dissolved Nitrous Oxide | Dissolved N2O concentration and stable isotope/isotopomer composition measurements. |
Nitrate isotopes | Nitrate dual isotope (d15N and d18O) measurements. |
nutrients metals and ctd | Analysis of nutrients, Cobalt (total and labile), dissolved Iron, and dissolved Manganese from TM bottle samples. |
combined CTD | Combined CTD profiles for two CTD sensor packages on R/V Knorr KN192-05 from November to December 2007 |
DOPv2021 | DOP concentration observations in the global ocean between 1990 and 2021. |
Chief Scientist: Mak A. Saito
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• GAc01
• CoFeMUG
• KN192-5