Hydrographic data from the Texas Continental Shelf and Northwest Continental Slope of the Gulf of Mexico: TAMU (Texas A and M University) ecosystem research group Rings Cruise 88g-05. Technical report
The cruise continued and extended the cooperation between Texas A and M University and Mexico's naval oceanographic division begun in the fall of 1987 on GYRE cruises 87G-11 and 87G-12. As in the fall of 1987, the cruise track covered the upper continental slope as well as the continental shelf of the northwest Gulf of Mexico with a grid of closely-spaced CTD and XBT stations. Projects included the following: (1) a survey of the T/S and nutrients + oxygen + chlorophyll signature of a mesoscale warm-core ring in the northwest Gulf; (2) collections with drifting sediment traps near the center of the warm ring; (3) standard stations in water depths of 20 m, 50 m, 100 m, and 200 m off Galveston and Corpus Christi; (4) collections with a 30-ft otter trawl at 200 m, 300 m, and 400 m along the upper continental slope just seaward of the shelf transects off Galveston and Corpus Christi; (5) daily measurements of 14C production to compare primary productivity of shelf with slope regions of the northwest Gulf.
- Research Organization:
- Minerals Management Service, Metairie, LA (USA). Gulf of Mexico OCS Regional Office
- OSTI ID:
- 5782035
- Report Number(s):
- PB-90-149006/XAB; MMS/GM-88/05-T
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Portions of this document are not fully legible
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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