U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific Process Study

Sampling and Analytical Protocols

additional protocols as received by Data Management Office
Christine L. Hammond

Contents

Preface

Section 1 N and C Sampling and Analysis Protocols for the JGOFS EqPac Program

Mark A. Altabet and Roger Francois

Section 2 Radiochemical Analyses of U, Th Isotopes, Pa and Be

Robert F. Anderson

Section 3 Protocols for Measurement of pCO, Total CO, and Alkalinity on the Equatorial Pacific JGOFS Survey Cruises

David Archer and Taro Takahashi

Section 4 Sampling Protocols for Marine Snow Aggregates

Vernon Asper

Section 5 Use of Naturally Occurring Radionuclides as Tracers for Particle and Carbon Fluxes and Cycling Rates

Michael P. Bacon and J. Kirk Cochran

Section 6 Calcification and Photosynthesis Measurements from 12 N to 12 S along 140 W

William M. Balch

Section 7 In Situ Primary Productivity Protocol

Richard T. Barber

Section 8 Protocol for Net and Gross O Production Measurements

Michael L. Bender

Section 9 Core Pigment Protocol and QA/QC Procedures for the U.S. JGOFS EQPAC Program

Robert R. Bidigare

Section 9A Multiple Unit Large Volume in situ Filtration System Protocol

James K.B. Bishop

Section 9B Mesozooplankton Protocols

Hans Dam and Michael Roman

Section 10 Benthic Microbiological Biomass, Composition, Carbon-Utilization Rates, and Production: Summary of Methods for the U.S. JGOFS EqPac Program

Fred C. Dobbs

Section 11 Measurement of Bacterial Biomass and Production (EqPac)

Hugh W. Ducklow and David L. Kirchman

Section 12 Acquisition and Processing of AVHRR Images during JGOFS

Pierre Flament

Section 12A Data Reduction Scheme for Determining Beam Attenuation Coefficients

Wilford Gardner

Section 13 Nutrient Protocols

Christopher Garside

Section 14 Determination of the Temporal Variations of the Carbonate Properties in the Ocean during the EqPac Time-Series Cruises

Catherine Goyet

Section 15 Sampling and Analytic Schemes for U-, Th-series and Be Isotopes

Teh-Lung Ku and Shangde Luo

Section 16 Standing Stocks and Microzooplankton Grazing Rates in the Equatorial Pacific

Michael R. Landry

Section 17 Summary of Sampling Plan, Analytical Plan and Procedures

Margaret Leinen

Section 18 Determination of Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) and Nitrogen (PON) in Seawater

John H. Martin

Section 19 EqPac New Production by N

James J. McCarthy and Patricia A. Wheeler

Section 20 Scavenging Isotopes and Particle Cycling

James W. Murray

Section 21 Enumeration and Analysis of Picophytoplankton

Robert J. Olson and Sallie W. Chisholm

Section 21A Shipboard determination of total organic carbon by a high temperature combustion/ direct injection technique

Edward T. Peltzer

Section 22 Measurement Protocols for Macrobenthic Abundance and Biomass in the U.S. JGOFS EqPac Program

Craig R. Smith, David C. Kadko and David J. DeMaster

Section 23 Protocols for Role of Microzooplankton in the Equatorial Pacific

Michael E. Sieracki, Peter G. Verity and Diane K. Stoecker

Section 24 Bio-optical Calibration and Measurements Protocols for U.S.JGOFS Equatorial Pacific Cruises

Charles C. Trees and Curtiss O. Davis

Section 25 Organic Geochemical Flux Studies in the Equatorial Pacific Using Swimmer-Excluding Rotator Traps

Stuart G. Wakeham, Cindy Lee and John I. Hedges

Section 26 Large Aggregate Profiling System Protocol

Ian D. Walsh, Wilford B. Gardner and Mary Jo Richardson