This item contains cruise data from three different Coast Guard Cutter vessels Absecon (March 03, 1961 to April 19, 1963), Barataria (July 25 to August 10, 1962), and Bibb (June 21, 1960 to December 03, 1963). Part 1 contains data from the Bibb cruise, and is accompanied by an instructional guide and example data sheets. The bulk of the collection consists of data sheets recording the following information: "opening and closing plankton tows", "Nansen bottles", ship and cruise no., station no., sample number, total no. samples, coordinates, date, local time, tow type, net in, net out, length of tow, wire angle at max depth, flowmeter reading, corrected depth range, flowmeter no., displacement vol., flowmeter calibration factor, corrected displ. vol., vol. H20 filtered, wire angle information, sky condition, sea condition, surface water temperature, BT slide data, BT temperatures, surface salinity, core no., comments (successful? If not why?), observer name.
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