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.  These data were submitted by Dr. Tim Whiteaker at The University of Texas at Austin.  Data are organized by the investigator responsible for collecting the data.  Please cite data accordingly.  To cite the project as a whole, please use:

Dunton, K., B. Konar, J. Grebmeier, J. Trefry, L. Cooper, R. Harvey, and S. Schonberg (2010). Physical, chemical, and biological data collected during 2009 and 2010 research cruises for the Chukchi Sea Offshore Monitoring in Drilling Area (Chemical and Benthos) (COMIDA CAB) project. National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA. doi:10.7289/V5C8279Z

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