Details of List of deep-sea benthic video stations collected during the iMAR 2021/Eurofleets+ research cruise in Mid Atlantic Ridge (Azores EEZ)

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Title of datasetList of deep-sea benthic video stations collected during the iMAR 2021/Eurofleets+ research cruise in Mid Atlantic Ridge (Azores EEZ)
Narrative summary of datasetThis dataset was collected during the iMAR cruise “The Integrated assessment of the distribution of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) in the Azores region”, that took place aboard the Research Vessel Pelagia of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) between May 19th and June 2nd 2021. The iMAR cruise aimed to evaluate the role of the MAR in shaping latitudinal and trans-Atlantic patterns in deep-sea biogeography, connectivity and assemblages of deep-sea megafauna. This expedition was funded by the SEA OCEANS program of Eurofleets+ and the H2020 European project iAtlantic, and was led by the University of the Azores (Portugal) in collaboration with the Hydrographic Institute and University of Porto (Portugal), the University of Aarhus (Denmark), the National Oceanography Center (United Kingdom), GEOMAR (Germany), the University Museum of Bergen (Norway), the PP Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (Russia), and the University of Vale do Itajaí (Brazil). The deep-sea benthic communities were mapped using the NIOZ towed camera system. The Hopper system generated a series of high-definition video transects in each area explored, starting from the deepest point (set at 1,200 m approx.) and moving upwards towards the seamount or ridge summit (700 m to 300 m depth). During the iMAR cruise, 22 stations for Hopper video transects were performed (Table 1), mainly in the North portion of the MAR inside the Exclusive Economic Zone around the Azores, which produced approximately 54 hours of bottom time, along 48 km of seafloor.     Important Note: This submission has been initially submitted to SEA scieNtific Open data Edition (SEANOE) publication service and received the recorded DOI. The metadata elements have been further processed (refined) in EMODnet Ingestion Service in order to conform with the Data Submission Service specifications.
Project/programmeEUROFLEETS+: An Alliance of European marine research infrastructure to meet the evolving needs of the research and industrial communities
Cruise
  • 590_iMAR
  • Start date2021-05-19
    End date2021-06-02

    Responsible organisations

    CountryFrance
    Organisation nameIfremer, Scientific Information Systems for the sea
    Role of organisationDataset Holding Organisation
    CountryFrance
    Organisation nameSEA scieNtific Open data Edition
    Role of organisationPublisher
    How to citeDominguez-Carrió Carlos, Taranto Gerald H., Rodrigues Luís, Neves De Sousa Laura, Evans Susan, Carreiro-Silva Marina, Morato Telmo (2022). List of deep-sea benthic video stations collected during the iMAR 2021/Eurofleets+ research cruise in Mid Atlantic Ridge (Azores EEZ). SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/86110

    Dataset availability

    Original dataset download linkhttps://cloud.emodnet-ingestion.eu/index.php/s/4qzJ244ERf0Z9wH
    Dataset formatDelimited
    SHAPEFILE
    Public accessNo limitations
    License for useCC-BY 4.0
    TypeDataset
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.17882/86110

    Locations

    Map
    Latitude north boundary42.484475
    Longitude east boundary-28.559438
    Latitude south boundary38.236108
    Longitude west boundary-30.935026
    Sea areaNorth Atlantic Ocean
    Atlantic Ocean
    Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

    Data types, collection and processing

    Observation typeinapplicable
    ParameterHorizontal spatial co-ordinates
    Data quality processing informationProcessed data

    Process information

    Submitting organisationOKEANOS
    Submission identifier (UUID)a53ad03f-3836-8363-3631-000000086110
    Date of dataset creation2022-04-29
    Date of dataset revision2022-05-13
    Date of metadata creation2022-5-15
    Date of metadata latest revision2022-05-27
    Date of publishing2022-06-13
    Processing data centreNational Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Division of Oceanography
    Summary record-ID1043