micro_grazing

 PI:              Michael Landry
 of:              University of Hawaii
 dataset:         Phytoplankton growth, microzooplankton herbivory
 project/cruise:  EqPac - Equatorial Pacific process Study   
 ship:            Thomas Thompson


Methods: Rate estimates were made by seawater dilution per JGOFS protocols.  
         Full methods described in:
         Landry, M.R., J. Constantinou and J. Kirshtein.  1995.
         Microzooplankton grazing in the central equatorial Pacific during
         February and August, 1992.  Deep-Sea Res. II 42: 657-671.


 Parameter         Description                                  Units

 event             event number from event log
 lat_n             approximate north latitude, negative=south (longitude is 140W)
 sta               station number from event log
 depth_n           nominal depth of sample collection           meters
 chl_a             initial chl-a (fluorometry)                  micrograms chl-a per liter
 phyto_growth      phytoplankton specific growth rate           per day
 microzoo_graze    microzooplankton grazing rate                per day