Physical, chemical and biological data collected from CTD and bottle casts from the R/V HERMANO GINES from the Caribbean Sea and continental shelf of Venezuela in support of the Carbon Retention in a Colored Ocean (CARIACO) project from 2008 - 2010 (NODC Accession 0069000)

CTD and bottle data were collected from R/V HERMANO GINES on the continental shelf of Venezuela from 10 September 2008 to 7 January 2010, during cruises Car149 through Car165. Data were collected by the University of South Florida in support of the Carbon Retention in a Colored Ocean (CARIACO) project. CTD parameters include temperature, salinity, and depth. Bottle parameters include concentrations nitrate, nitrite, dissolved oxygen, pH, alkalinity, chlorophyll-a and phaeopigment concentration, productivity, particulate organic carbon, particulate organic nitrogen, ammonia, silicate and phosphorus.