Eastern Gulf of Mexico glider deployment M72 (2017-05-16 – 2017-06-12) - water quality variables

A Slocum glider was deployed in the eastern Gulf of Mexico off Tampa Bay in May and June 2017. As the glider traverses its transit path, it makes measurements at various depths from ~2 m to near the seafloor or up to 200 m. While the glider is deployed at sea, it surfaces and communicates to an onshore control station at predetermined intervals. A decimated selection of vehicle and science measurement is transmitted during these surface transmissions, and the relevant data becomes available through a USF web site. After the glider’s recovery at the end of the deployment, the complete measurement suite is downloaded from the vehicle and processed and becomes available through the USF site as well as a national data archive. The measurements in this data set include conductivity, temperature, depth, chlorophyll and gelbstoff fluorescence, and dissolved O2. Other data sets for this deployment include acoustic tag telemetry receiver detections, passive acoustic recordings, and echo sounder water column data. The glider was deployed on 2017-05-16 at the 30 m isobath. It traversed for a week to the NW before turning WSW to the 150 m isobath, turned around and made its way bath NE before turning SE. It was recovered on 2017-06-12. The intent was for the glider to follow the progression of the Gulfstream Natural Gas Pipeline before and after a transect out to the shelf break, collecting water quality and acoustic data sets.

The suite of related datasets includes results from gliders M66, M69, M70, and M72.

Glider M66: water quality variables (FL.x707.000:0001, https://doi.org/10.7266/N72N50PF), tag telemetry (FL.x707.000:0002, https://doi.org/10.7266/n7-ccc2-s109), and echo sounder backscatter intensity (FL.x707.000:0003, https://doi.org/10.7266/n7-9yq5-w169).

Glider M69: water quality variables (FL.x707.000:0004, https://doi.org/10.7266/n7-n30g-bw27); acoustic tag telemetry receiver detections (FL.x707.000:0005, https://doi.org/10.7266/n7-406m-ak69), echo sounder backscatter (FL.x707.000:0007, https://doi.org/10.7266/n7-4skm-bj34), and passive acoustic recordings (FL.x707.000:0006, https://doi.org/10.7266/n7-5y6c-sj73).

Glider M70: water quality variables (FL.x707.000:0010, https://doi.org/10.7266/g51f95wz), and tag telemetry (FL.x707.000:0008, https://doi.org/10.7266/p2ymsrp4).

Glider M72: tag telemetry (FL.x707.000:0009, https://doi.org/10.7266/9va17amx).