This folder contains data files produced by principal investigators for the project: Chukchi Sea Offshore Monitoring In Drilling Area: Chemical And Benthos (COMIDA CAB).  This is a comprehensive program funded by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management that is designed to establish an integrated knowledge of this biologically productive and diverse ecosystem. The chemical and benthos component addresses the benthic system with a particular emphasis on sediment chemical characteristics and the benthic biota, both infaunal and epifaunal.

Data were collected on cruises in the summers of 2009 and 2010.  Data files will be transformed to templates approved by the NODC so that the data use a common structure.  However, the original data files are provided in this folder as well.

These data were submitted by Dr. Tim Whiteaker at The University of Texas at Austin.