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Stables isotopes of organisms along a transect from the Greenwood Creek outfall pipe to the Ipswich River, Ipswich, MA, Plum Island Ecosystems LTER

General Information
Data Package:
Local Identifier:knb-lter-pie.38.6
Title:Stables isotopes of organisms along a transect from the Greenwood Creek outfall pipe to the Ipswich River, Ipswich, MA, Plum Island Ecosystems LTER
Abstract:

Organisms, plants and animals, were collected along a transect in Greenwood Creek, Ipswich, MA from the Ipswich sewage treatment plant outfall pipe to the mouth of Greenwood Creek on the Ipswich River. Tissue from the organisms was analysed for del 13C and del 15N to determine if the treatment plant effluent del 15N signal could be detected in the biota of Greenwood Creek.

Short Name:LTE-TC-GreenwoodIsotopes
Publication Date:2019
Language:English

Time Period
Begin:
2001-04-19
End:
2001-08-28

People and Organizations
Contact:Plum Island Ecosystems LTER 
Creator:Deegan, Linda 
Associate:Garritt, Hap 

Data Entities
Data Table Name:
LTE-TC-GreenwoodIsotopes.csv
Description:
Stables isotopes of organisms along a transect from the Greenwood Creek outfall pipe to the Ipswich River, Ipswich, MA, Plum Island Ecosystems LTER
Other Name:
LTE-TC-GreenwoodIsotopes.xls
Description:
Excel metadata and data file associated with the csv data source file. Excel file after downloading is to be used for adding/editing new metadata and data
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Data Table

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Description:Stables isotopes of organisms along a transect from the Greenwood Creek outfall pipe to the Ipswich River, Ipswich, MA, Plum Island Ecosystems LTER
Number of Records:20
Number of Columns:10

Table Structure
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Table Column Descriptions
 SampleNumberSamplingDateAnalysisDateDistanceLocationSampleLatitudeSampleLongitudeSampleID13C15N
Column Name:SampleNumber  
SamplingDate  
AnalysisDate  
Distance  
Location  
SampleLatitude  
SampleLongitude  
SampleID  
13C  
15N  
Definition:Sample numberDate of samplingDate of analysisCreek distance away from Ipswich RiverSample location numberLatitude of sample locationLongitude of sample locationOrganism samplesdelta 13C, isotope ratio 13C/12Cdelta 15N, isotope ratio 15N/14N
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Data Policies

PIE LTER Data Use Agreement

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The re-use of scientific data has the potential to greatly increase communication, collaboration and synthesis within and among disciplines, and thus is fostered, supported and encouraged. Permission to use this dataset is granted to the Data User free of charge subject to the following terms:

  • 1) Citation. It is considered a matter of professional ethics to acknowledge the work of other scientists. Thus, the Data User will properly cite the Data Set in any publications or in the metadata of any derived data products that were produced using the Data Set. Citation should take the following general form: Creator, Year of Data Publication, Title of Dataset, Publisher, Dataset identifier.
  • For example: Giblin, Anne; Hopkinson, Charles (2000): Rates of benthic metabolism and nutrient cycling in the Parker and Rowley Rivers of the Plum Island Sound estuary. Plum Island Ecosystems LTER, Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/17fa8b4fef50c7b85cac3d61482a7cb6
  • 2) Acknowledgement. The Data User should acknowledge any institutional support or specific funding awards referenced in the metadata accompanying this dataset in any publications where the Data Set contributed significantly to its content. Acknowledgements should identify the supporting party, the party that received the support, and any identifying information such as grant numbers. The Data User should contact the Data Set Contact to ensure the appropriate Granting Programs are acknowledged.
  • For example: Data sets were provided by the Plum Island Ecosystems LTER. This material is based upon funding supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants #OCE-9726921, OCE-0423565, OCE-1058747, OCE-1238212, OCE-1637630.
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Keywords

By Thesaurus:
Core AreasPrimary Production, Inorganic Nutrients, Disturbance, Population Dynamics
LTER Controlled Vocabularyecosystem ecology, marshes, primary production, species interactions, fertilization, shrimp, fishes, plants, PIE LTER, Plum Island Ecosystems

Methods and Protocols

These methods, instrumentation and/or protocols apply to all data in this dataset:

Methods and protocols used in the collection of this data package
Description:

Animal and plant collections occurred along a transect from the Greenwood Creek outfall pipe to the mouth of Greenwood Creek on the Ipswich River, approximately 2 kilometers downstream.  Tissues of animals and plants were dissected, dried, checked for carbonate contamination and analyzed at the Marine Biological Lab, Ecosystems Center Stable Isotope Lab.

People and Organizations

Publishers:
Organization:Plum Island Ecosystems LTER
Web Address:
http://pie-lter.ecosystems.mbl.edu/
Creators:
Individual: Linda Deegan
Address:
Woods Hole Research Center,
Falmouth, MA 02540 US
Phone:
508-444-1557 (voice)
Email Address:
ldeegan@whrc.org
Id:http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1017-9599
Contacts:
Organization:Plum Island Ecosystems LTER
Web Address:
http://pie-lter.ecosystems.mbl.edu/
Associated Parties:
Individual: Hap Garritt
Address:
Marine Biological Lab, 7 MBL Street,
Woods Hole, MA 02543 US
Phone:
(508) 289-7485 (voice)
Phone:
(508) 457-1548 (facsimile)
Email Address:
hgarritt@mbl.edu
Id:http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5912-0769
Role:associated researcher
Metadata Providers:
Organization:Plum Island Ecosystems LTER
Web Address:
http://pie-lter.ecosystems.mbl.edu/

Temporal, Geographic and Taxonomic Coverage

Temporal, Geographic and/or Taxonomic information that applies to all data in this dataset:

Time Period
Begin:
2001-04-19
End:
2001-08-28
Geographic Region:
Description:Greenwood Creek, Ipswich, MA. Site of Town of Ipswich sewage effluent pipe.
Bounding Coordinates:
Northern:  42.691501617432Southern:  42.690799713135
Western:  -70.821998596191Eastern:  -70.818397521973

Project

Parent Project Information:

Title:Plum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research (PIE LTER I, 1998-2004)
Personnel:
Individual: Charles Hopkinson
Address:
University of Georgia, 289A Marine Sciences Building,
Athens, GA 30602 US
Phone:
(706) 542-1855 (voice)
Email Address:
chopkins@uga.edu
Id:http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7331-8322
Role:principalInvestigator
Individual: Linda Deegan
Address:
Woods Hole Research Center,
Falmouth, MA 02540 US
Phone:
508-444-1557 (voice)
Email Address:
ldeegan@whrc.org
Id:http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1017-9599
Role:principalInvestigator
Individual: Anne Giblin
Address:
Marine Biological Lab, 7 MBL Street,
Woods Hole, MA 02543 US
Phone:
(508) 289-7488 (voice)
Phone:
(508) 457-1548 (facsimile)
Email Address:
agiblin@mbl.edu
Id:http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3851-2178
Role:principalInvestigator
Individual: Jim Morris
Address:
Bell Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences, University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC 29208 US
Phone:
(803) 777-5288 (voice)
Phone:
(803) 777-4002 (facsimile)
Email Address:
morris@inlet.geol.sc.edu
Role:principalInvestigator
Individual: Joe Vallino
Address:
Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street,
Woods Hole, MA 02543 US
Phone:
(508) 289-7648 (voice)
Phone:
(508) 457-1548 (facsimile)
Email Address:
jvallino@mbl.edu
Id:http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4184-4512
Role:principalInvestigator
Individual: Robert Buchsbaum
Address:
Mass Audubon North Shore, 346 Grapevine Avenue,
Wenham, MA 01984 US
Phone:
(978) 927-1122 (voice)
Phone:
(978) 922-8487 (facsimile)
Email Address:
rbuchsbaum@massaudubon.org
Role:principalInvestigator
Abstract: 

Human activities in rivers and watersheds have altered enormously the timing, magnitude and nature of inputs of materials such as water, sediments, nutrients and organic matter to estuaries. An important but neglected linkage between land and coastal waters is the input of dissolved and particulate organic carbon and organic nitrogen. This long-term ecological research (LTER) in land/ocean margin ecosystems will focus on the following question and hypotheses:
How will trophic structure and primary and secondary productivity in estuaries be affected by changes in organic matter, nutrient and water fluxes cause by changing land cover, climate and sea level?
Hypothesis 1. The interaction of inorganic nutrients with the quantity and quality of organic carbon and organic nitrogen plays an important role in determining the trophic structure, production and efficiency of estuarine food webs.
Hypothesis 2. The variability in land, ocean and atmospheric forcing is a key component determining the fate of allochthonous and autochthonous materials and the location and magnitude of primary and secondary production.

NSF OCE LTER-Plum Island Ecosystems:
Plum Island Sound Comparative Ecosystem Study (PISCES):
Effects of changing land cover, climate, and sea level on estuarine trophic dynamics

Funding:

9726921

Maintenance

Maintenance:
Description: 

Version 01, initial Excel to EML metadata
Version 02, 25Jan2010, keyword update
Version 03: January 11, 2017, data and metadata updates to comply with importation to Drupal and LTER PASTA. Used MarcrosExportEML_HTML (working)pie_excel2007_Jul2016.xlsm 7/20/16 5:08 PM for QA/QC to EML 2.1.0
Version 04: June 13, 2019, data and metadata updates to comply with importation to DEIMS7 and LTER Data Portal. Used MarcrosExportEML_HTML (working)pie_excel2007_Jun2019.xlsm 6/7/19 12:58 PM for QA/QC to EML 2.1.0

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