Infaunal community composition and sediment grain size distribution, porosity, and organic content of sediment cores collected in the Northern Gulf of Mexico off the Alabama (USA) coast during 2020 and 2021 before and after Hurricane Sally

This dataset consists of infaunal community composition and sediment grain size distribution, porosity, and organic content of sediment cores in addition to bottom water salinity, dissolved oxygen, and temperature collected from 9 sites at 5, 12 and 20 meters depth in the Northern Gulf of Mexico off the Alabama (USA) coast before and after Hurricane Sally, which occurred in 2020.