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  5. Hourly Sea Floor Water Temperatures Recorded at Four Kelp Forest Monitoring Sites at San Nicolas Island, California (2015-2019)

Hourly Sea Floor Water Temperatures Recorded at Four Kelp Forest Monitoring Sites at San Nicolas Island, California (2015-2019)

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2015-11-22
End Date
2019-10-01

Citation

Kenner, M.C., and Randell, Z.H., 2022, Benthic kelp and invertebrate counts, California sheephead abundance, substrate rugosity data, and benthic temperatures from long-term kelp forest ecosystem monitoring sites at San Nicolas Island, California: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Q6B625.

Summary

The data represent hourly temperatures recorded at four permanent subtidal monitoring sites around San Nicolas Island, CA between November 2015 and October 2019. The temperatures were recorded by TidbiT (registered trademark) v2 model UTBI-001 (Onset Computer Corporation, Bourne, Massachusetts) archival temperature loggers attached at the sea floor. The loggers were deployed approximately 10-12 m deep at Nav Fac (12 m) on the north side of the island, at West End Urchin (11 m) on the southwest side, at east Dutch Harbor (11 m) on the south side, and at Daytona Beach (10 m) near the east end of the island.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center
Originator :
Michael C Kenner, Zachary H Randell
Metadata Contact :
Michael C Kenner
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems
SDC Data Owner :
Western Ecological Research Center
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Hourly sea floor water temperatures recorded at four kelp forest monitoring sites at San Nicolas Island, CA (2015-2019).xml
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SiteSpecificTemps.csv 4.51 MB text/csv

Purpose

The data were collected as part of a larger kelp forest ecosystem monitoring project at San Nicolas Island. They yield information on diel, seasonal, and interannual temperature patterns as well as variation among different parts of the island at depths supporting kelp forest communities.

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