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Journal for accession number: 0056842
Created on:                   2009-08-14 20:27:03 UTC
By:                           Shannon Niou, National Oceanographic Data Center

Source: The NOAA/NODC National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC)
        assembled these data collected during the "Life on the Edge 2005" 
	expedition, which the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and 
        Research sponsored, and submitted them on DVD to the NOAA/NODC Marine 
        Data Stewardship Division (MDSD) for archiving.

about/
This directory contains files generated by NODC with ancillary information
about the data submission.

0056842_lonlat.txt - Station locations for these data.  Each row contains the
                     geographical position for a station (longitude in the
                     left column and latitude in the right column, both in
                     degrees).

0056842_map.jpg - Station location map for these data.

LifeOnTheEdge20050DVDAcknosledgment.jpg - scanned image of submitted DVDs.
 
about/metadata/
This directory contains FGDC standard metadata records created by NCDDC in XML
format.

data/0-data/
This directory contains the data and information files as summitted to MDSD.
All executable files have been removed from this accession. Removal of these
files can result in directories that are empty.

data/0-data/documents/
This directory contains documents that describe the data and the "Life on the
Edge 2005" expedition.

data/0-data/submersible/
This directory contains all the data and information files that were collected
aboard the submersible Johnson Sea-Link Dive, and includes CTD data and 
navigational data.

data/0-data/vessel/
This directory contains all the data and information files that were collected
aboard the vessel SEWARD JOHNSON.

data/1-data/
This directory contains the data and information files that NODC converted
from their originally submitted format to an archival format that NODC can
better preserve.

*.pdf - PDF/A files that NODC converted from Microsoft Excel and Word files.