Laboratory tide simulator measurements assessing the oil degradation in Pensacola Beach sands

In situ cores created using unoiled Pensacola Beach sand and Pensacola Beach sand with the addition of weathered crude oil (GRIIDC dataset R5.x278.000:0010) were incubated in the laboratory. A trough with dimensions 90 x 50 x 40 cm and a computer-controlled pump worked as a tide simulator to mimic Pensacola Beach conditions. Oxygen and carbon dioxide were measured every 15 minutes using a LICOR LI-804A CO2 gas analyzer and Hach rigid 02 optodes. This dataset contains laboratory measurements of oxygen and carbon dioxide and supports the publication: Huettel, M., Overholt, W.A., Kostka, J.E., Hagan, C., Kaba, J., Wells, W.B., & Dudley, S. (2018). Degradation of Deepwater Horizon oil buried in a Florida beach influenced by tidal pumping. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 126, 488-500. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.10.061