The following document gives details of the datasets that will be produced as a result of the BIO-Carbon fieldwork that took place in 2024. These datasets are being produced by the CHALKY, IDAPro and PARTITRICS projects. Dates for the expected availability of the datasets are also given.

BIO-Carbon datasets

 

Data description

Responsible person

Availability date

DY180 Discrete measurements of Calcite Production and Net Primary Production

Sarah Cryer (HW)

September 2025

DY180 Coccolithophore cell counts and species identification from Scanning Electron Microscopy

Sarah Cryer (HW)

October 2026

DY180 Discrete CTD measurements of Particulate Inorganic Carbon from ICP-OES analysis

Alex Poulton (HW)

October 2026

DY180 Discrete UW measurements of Particulate Inorganic Carbon from ICP-OES analysis

Alex Poulton (HW)

October 2026

DY180 ship position, 30sec averaged

Yvonne Firing (NOC)

February 2025

DY180 CTD sensor data: Transmissometer, Fluorometer, Dissolved Oxygen sensor, Optical Backscatter sensor, PAR sensor

Yvonne Firing (NOC)

December 2024

DY180 MLD and Euphotic Depth from CTD

Sarah Cryer (HW)

July 2025

DY180 CTD bottle samples macronutrients, dissolved oxygen

Ed Mawji (NOC)

December 2024

DY180 underway temperature, salinity, chl

Yvonne Firing (NOC)

May 2025

DY180 DIC & TA from the CTD

Dorothee Bakker, Emmanuel Atai (UEA)

December 2025

DY180 DIC & TA from the underway

Dorothee Bakker, Emmanuel Atai (UEA)

December 2025

DY180 pH from CTD (test)

Dorothee Bakker (UEA)

TBC

DY180 pH from underway (test)

Dorothee Bakker (UEA)

TBC

pH sensor underway (test)

Dorothee Bakker (UEA)

TBC

DY180 Discrete measurements of plankton community respiration derived from oxygen consumption - epipelagic waters

Carol Robinson (UEA)

October 2025

DY180 Discrete measurements of plankton community respiration derived from oxygen consumption - mesopelagic waters

Carol Robinson (UEA)

October 2025

DY180 Discrete measurements of plankton community respiration derived from the activity of the electron transport system - epipelagic waters / size fractions

Carol Robinson, Meredith Meyer (UEA)

December 2025

DY180 Discrete measurements of plankton community respiration derived from the activity of the electron transport system - mesopelagic waters / size fractions

Carol Robinson, Meredith Meyer (UEA)

December 2025

DY180 Discrete measurements of plankton community respiration derived from the activity of the electron transport system - full water column <200µm

Carol Robinson, Meredith Meyer (UEA)

December 2025

DY180 Discrete measurements of particle associated respiration collected from MSC derived from oxygen consumption (optodes)

Cordelia Roberts (Imperial) and Elena Garcia-Martin (NOC)

October 2025

DY180 Discrete Marine Snow catcher measurements of fast sinking Particulate Organic Carbon

Cordelia Roberts (Imperial) and Elena Garcia-Martin (NOC

October 2025

DY180 discrete prokaryotic abundance/count data via flow cytometry

Cordelia Roberts (Imperial) and Elena Garcia-Martin (NOC)

October 2025

DY180 Images of suspended, slow- and fast-sinking particles and particle size data from Planktoscope

Elena Garcia-Martin (NOC) and Cordelia Roberts (Imperial)

December 2025

DY180 Images of suspended, slow- and fast-sinking particles and particle size data from FlowCam

Cordelia Roberts (Imperial) and Elena Garcia-Martin (NOC)

December 2025

DY180 community composition and organic material count data from FlowCam

Cordelia Roberts (Imperial) and Elena Garcia-Martin (NOC)

October 2025

DY180 Prokaryotic respiration based on redox sensor green reductase activity assay

Chie Amano, Marilena Heitger (Univ. of Vienna)

December 2025

DY180 Prokaryotic extracellular enzymatic activity data

Chie Amano, Marilena Heitger (Univ. of Vienna)

December 2025

DY180 Marine Snow Catcher flux data

Will Major, Chelsey Baker, Sari Giering, Filipa Carvalho (NOC)

December 2025

DY180 and JC269 In situ images of particles (imaging profiler with several camera systems) (Red Camera Frame, RCF)

Will Major, Amanda Elineau, Sari Giering (NOC)

March 2025

DY180 Discrete POC and PON data from all sources (CTD, MSC, UW, RESPIRE)

Nathan Briggs, Filipa Carvalho (NOC)

April 2025

DY180 size spectrum data from UVP6 on CTD

Filipa Carvalho, Nathan Briggs, Hans Hilder, Amanda Elineau (NOC)

December 2025

DY180 UVP6 images from CTD

Filipa Carvalho, Nathan Briggs, Hans Hilder, Amanda Elineau (NOC)

December 2025

BIO-Carbon calibrated glider (4) CT, oxygen and optical data

Flavien Petit, Hans Hilder, Filipa Carvalho, Nathan Briggs (NOC)

December 2025

BIO-Carbon calibrated float (6) CT, oxygen and optical data

Flavien Petit, Hans Hilder, Filipa Carvalho, Nathan Briggs (NOC)

December 2025

BIO-Carbon calibrated ALR (2) CT, oxygen and optical data

Flavien Petit, Hans Hilder, Filipa Carvalho, Nathan Briggs (NOC)

December 2025

DY180 and JC269 nutrient limitation experiments

Mark Moore (UoS), Te Liu (UoS)

October 2025

DY180 and JC269 active chlorophyll fluorescence data

Mark Moore (UoS), Te Liu (UoS)

October 2025

DY180 and JC269 fluorometric(Turner) chlorophyll

Mark Moore (UoS)

October 2025

DY180 and JC269 size fractionated chlorophyll

Mark Moore (UoS)

October 2025

DY180 and JC269 Cytosense cell counts

TBC

December 2025

DY180 and JC269 particulate phytoplankton and detrital absorption

Heather Bouman (Oxford)

October 2025

DY180 and JC269 14C photosynthesis irradiance experiments

Heather Bouman (Oxford)

October 2025

DY180 and JC269 Dissolved Trace metals

Maeve Lohan, Te Liu (UoS)

October 2025

DY180 and JC269 Particulate Trace metals

Maeve Lohan, Te Liu (UoS)

December 2025

DY180 IOP and CTD profiles

David McKee (Strathclyde)

December 2025

DY180 Radiometry profiles

David McKee (Strathclyde)

December 2025

DY180 Surface remote sensing reflectance spectra

David McKee (Strathclyde)

December 2025

DY180 Discrete prokaryotic and eukaryotic abundance data by flow cytometry

Glen Tarran (PML)

December 2024

DY180 Above water remote sensing reflectance spectra

Brandy Robinson

December 2025

DY180 Radiometric flourescence line height

Brandy Robinson

December 2025

DY180 Transparent Exopolymer Particle Data

Chelsey Baker (NOC)

December 2025

DY180 Turbulence Profiles

Chelsey Baker (NOC)

December 2025

DY180 Zooplankton biomass and depth distribution from Mammoth net

Kathryn Cook (Exeter)

December 2025

DY180 & JC269 Zooplankton biomass from Bongo net

Kathryn Cook (Exeter)

December 2025

DY180 & JC269 Mesozooplankton rate process data

Kathryn Cook (Exeter)

December 2025

DY180 & JC269 Microzooplankton rate process data

Franki Perry (Exeter)

December 2025

DY180 & JC269 Zooplankton metabolism indices (ETS, AARS)

Kathryn Cook (Exeter)

December 2025

DY180 & JC269 Zooplankton stoichiometric data

Franki Perry (Exeter)

December 2025

DY180 Zooplankton Respiration Measurement data

Vicky Fowler (BAS)

December 2025

DY180 Zooplankton CHN data

Vicky Fowler (BAS)

December 2025

DY180 morphometric & lipid analysis data

Cecilia Liszka (BAS)

September 2025

DY180 Underway IOP data

Cath Mitchell, Farley Miller (BLOS)

December 2025

DY180 Discrete underway PIC and CDOM absorption

Cath Mitchell, Farley Miller (BLOS)

December 2025

DY180 Fluorometric Chlorophyll-a (Turner fluorometer)

Cath Mitchell, Farley Miller (BLOS)

December 2025

DY180 Discrete underway PIC from ICP-OES analysis

Cath Mitchell, Farley Miller (BLOS)

December 2025

DY181 Discrete DIC, TA and pH from the CTD

Pablo Trucco (NOC)

December 2025

DY181 Discrete DIC, TA and pH from the underway

Pablo Trucco (NOC)

December 2025

DY181 Underway LoC measurements of pH, TA and DIC

Pablo Trucco (NOC)

December 2025

DY181 Discrete underway Chl, flow cytometry and SEM (tbc)

Alex Poulton (HW)

December 2025

DY180, DY181 and JC269 UW pCO2

Pablo Trucco (NOC)

December 2025

DY180 and JC269 single cell phytoplankton stoichiometries

Joe Furby (UoS)

December 2025

DY180 and JC269 bulk meso- and macro-zooplankton stoichiometries

Joe Furby, Maeve Lohan (UoS)

October 2025

JC269 sub-organismal multi-element imaging of meso- and macro-zooplankton 

Joe Furby (UoS)

December 2025