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The following table 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. Scroll down for a second table detailing datasets for the initial BIO-Carbon projects.
| 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) | April |
| 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) | April 2026 |
| 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) | April 2026 |
| 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 |
The following table gives details and expected availability dates for datasets that will be produced by the initial BIO-Carbon projects; Constraining respiration rates of mesopelagic fishes, C-QWIZ, Fish Gut Carbonates, GLOBESINK and MicroRESPIRE.
| Data description | Responsible person | Availability date |
|---|---|---|
| Mesopelagic fish otolith isotope data | Clive Trueman (UoS) | February 2026 |
| Mesopelagic fish muscle isotope data | Clive Trueman (UoS) | February 2026 |
| Mesopelagic fish metabolic rate estimates | Clive Trueman (UoS) | June 2026 |
| Mesopelagic fish experienced temperature estimates | Clive Trueman (UoS) | June 2026 |
| Collation of microbial respiration derived from oxygen consumption and the activity of the electron transport system and related environmental variables | Carol Robinson (UEA) | Available at BODC |
| Collation of zooplankton respiration derived from oxygen consumption and the activity of the electron transport system and related environmental variables | Carol Robinson (UEA) | April 2026 |
| Oxygen consumption and related environmental variables derived from sensors deployed on BGC Argo floats | Giorgio Dall'Olmo (UEA) | April 2026 |
| Global, depth-resolved climatology of sinking particulate organic carbon flux and mean particle diameter between the surface and 2000 m, gridded at 4°latitude by 8°longitude, derived from BGC Argo float measurements of optical backscattering | Nathan Briggs (NOC) | February 2026 |
| Zooplankton body size and metabolic rate processes (respiration, ingestion, growth) quantified across various thermal regimes following different combinations of short-term incubation and multigenerational acclimation. | Dewi Ford, Dan Mayor (Uni. of Exeter) | June 2026 |
| Calcium carbonate production rates by sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax (sampled in UoE's ARC; fasted) | Rod Wilson (Uni. of Exeter) | March 2026 earliest |
| Calcium carbonate production rates by sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, (sampled in UoE's ARC; commercial pellet feed) | Rod Wilson (Uni. of Exeter) | March 2026 earliest |
| Calcium carbonate production rates by sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, (sampled in UoE's ARC; calcium carbonate-enriched pellet feed) | Rod Wilson (Uni. of Exeter) | March 2026 earliest |
| Calcium carbonate production rates by sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, (sampled in UoE's ARC; calcium phosphate-enriched pellet feed) | Rod Wilson (Uni. of Exeter) | March 2026 earliest |
| Calcium carbonate mineralogy, composition and morphology (FTIR, SEM, EDX) from sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, under differenct feeding conditions | Rod Wilson (Uni. of Exeter) | March 2026 earliest |
| Calcium carbonate mineralogy, composition and morphology (FTIR, SEM, EDX) from sea bream, Sparus aurata, under differenct feeding conditions | Rod Wilson (Uni. of Exeter) | March 2026 earliest |
| Calcium carbonate mineralogy, composition and morphology (FTIR, SEM, EDX) from frozen specimens of wild epipelagic fish (several species - UK waters) | Rod Wilson (Uni. of Exeter) | March 2026 earliest |
| Calcium carbonate mineralogy, composition and morphology (FTIR, SEM, EDX) from frozen specimens of wild mesopelagic fish (several species - Gulf of Mexico, Norwegian Sea, Tropical Atlantic) | Rod Wilson (Uni. of Exeter) | March 2026 earliest |
| FTIR-derived estimates of the ratios of carbonate to phosphate in precipitates from wild and lab-fed fish | Rod Wilson (Uni. of Exeter) | March 2026 earliest |
| Biometric data (length, weight, intestine length) for sampled epipelagic fish | Rod Wilson (Uni. of Exeter) | March 2026 earliest |
| Biometric data (length, weight, intestine length) for sampled mesopelagic fish | Rod Wilson (Uni. of Exeter) | March 2026 earliest |