Following are the methodologies as extracted from the

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2. METHODS CTD DATA

2.1 CTD PROFILES

(Williams, SIO)

2.1.1 CTD Laboratory Calibrations

2.1.2 Data Acquisition and Display

2.1.3 Post-Acquisition and Post-Cruise Processing

2.1.3.1 Pressure, Temperature, and Salinity

2.1.3.2 Disolved Oxygen Data

2.1.3.3 Additional Processing

2.2 BEAM ATTENUATION

(Gardner, TAMU)

2.3 CTD PROFILES

(Broenkow, MLML)

2.3.1 Oxygen

2.3.2 Beam attenuation

2.3.3 Fluorescence

3. METHODS BOTTLE DATA

3.1 NISKIN/ROSETTE CASTS

(Williams, SIO)

3.1.1 Pressure, Temperature, and Salinity

3.1.2 Oxygen

3.1.3 Nutrients

3.1.3.1 Ammonium

(McCarthy, Harvard University)

3.2 PARTICULATE ORGANIC NITROGEN & CARBON

(Ducklow, HPEL)

3.3 BACTERIAL ABUNDANCE & BACTERIAL THYMIDINE/LEUCINE INCORPORATION

(Ducklow, HPEL)

3.4 CHLOROPHYLL

(Repeta, WHOI)

3.5 Dissolved Organic Carbon [removed by PI] (Pelzer and Brewer,MBARI)

3.6 Dissolved Organic Carbon [removed by PI] (Suzuki,Shizuoka University)

3.7 TOTAL CARBON DIOXIDE & ALKALINITY

(Goyet/Brewer, WHOI)

3.8 PARTIAL PRESSURE OF CO2, TOTAL CO2 CONCENTRATION AND TOTAL ALKALINITY

(Takahashi/Chipman/Goddard, LDGO)

3.9 MICROPLANKTON

(M. Sieracki, D.K. Stoecker and P.G. Verity)

3.9.1 ABUNDANCE OF MICROPLANKTONIC PROTOZOA

(D.K. Stoecker, Horn Point Environmental Laboratory)

3.10 REFERENCES