A compendium of geochemical information from the Saanich Inlet water column

Marine oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) are widespread and naturally occurring water column features that constitute ~7% of global ocean volume, but contribute disproportionately to biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nitrogen and climate active trace gases such as nitrous oxide and methane. Climate change compounded by other human activities is causing OMZ expansion. While microbial communities are the primary engines driving biogeochemical cycles in OMZs, our current understanding of microbial community metabolism is hindered by a lack of time-series observations charting responses to changing water column oxygen-deficiency. Saanich Inlet, a seasonally anoxic fjord on the coast of Vancouver Island British Columbia is a model ecosystem for monitoring microbial community structure, function and dynamics in relation to changing levels of water column oxygen-deficiency extensible to coastal and open ocean OMZs. Here, we present nine years of monthly time series observations in Saanich Inlet enc..., Saanich_TimeSeries_ChemicalChemical bottle data collected from Station S3 (-123.505, 48.59166667) in Saanich Inlet, BC, Canada. This data includes unique geographical coordinates for sampling station (Decimal degrees), Numerical identifier of individual cruises (Numeric string), Date of cruise (YY-MM-DD), Sampling depth (Meters), Oxygen concentration calculated from CTD SBE (Micromolar), Phosphate (Bran Luebbe AutoAnalyser - colorimetric) (Micromolar), Silicate (Bran Luebbe AutoAnalyser - colorimetric) (Micromolar), Nitrate (Bran Luebbe AutoAnalyser - colorimetric) (Micromolar), Average Ammonium (fluorometric) (Micromolar), Average Nitrite (colorimetric) (Micromolar), Average Hydrogen sulfide (colorimetric) (Micromolar), Cell counts value quantified by flow cytometry (Number of cells per millilitre (cells/mL)), Average concentration of Nitrogen gas (headspace) (Micromolar), Standard deviation for Nitrogen gas, Average concentration of Oxygen (headspace) (Micromolar), Standard deviation ..., ,