Data To Be Gathered and Equipment to be Used
 Expected Availability Following Sample Acquisition
Responsible Investigator(s)
Salinity, On-site Sea Bird Electronics SBE-21 to personal computer Days Cooper

Temperature, On-site Sea Bird Electronics SBE-21 to personal computer
Days Cooper
Fluorometry, On-site Turner Designs Fluorometer to personal computer Days Cooper

d18O,  VG Micromass SIRA Series II or Finnigan Delta Plus stable isotope mass spectrometer, Univ. Tennessee
Months Cooper

Nitrate, nitrite, phosphate, On-site WS Ocean Systems NAS 2-EN and NAS 2-EP to personal computer
Days to Weeks  Codispoti
Full nutrient suite, analyzed at Horn Point Lab Months  Codispoti
Gamma emitters, Concentration in 100L samples
Concentrates counted at Univ. Tennessee 
Weeks to Months Cooper

Hunting naratives, On-site, hand-written 
Months  Lowry/Sheffield
Marine mammal tissues,  On-site, Fairbanks, various  Months to years Lowry/Sheffield
Sediment chemistry, (d13C, C/N, TOC, 7Be), University of Tennessee, UC Santa Barbara Months Grebmeier
Sediment oxygen demand, shipboard Days Grebmeier
Benthic community structure, University of Tennessee Months to years Grebmeier
PAR, on site, Biospherical Instruments PUV 510 to personal computer Days Cooper
Surface UV, on site, Biospherical Instruments PUV 510 to personal computer Days Cooper
Penetration of UV and PAR in water column, on site Biospherical Instruments PUV 510 to personal computer Months Cooper