Plastics in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre

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Resource Abstract: 
These data are derived from hand specimens gathered as part of the 1986 NorthAtlantic_Law data compilation (Chief Scientist: Dr. Kara Lavender Law; Investigator(s): Dr. Kara Lavender Law and Dr. Giora Proskurowski). These data files are of Text File (ASCII) format and include Environmental Debris time series data and were processed after data collection. Data were acquired as part of the SEA Plastics Project 2010 Expedition, and SEA Plastics Project. This data was cited by Law et al., 2010.
Citation
Title  Plastics in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
publication date 2010-08-19
Topic Category:   oceans
Keywords:
datatype Keywords
keyword term:  EnvironmentalDebris
thesaurus name >
Title  MGDL Data Type vocabulary
dataCentre Keywords
keyword term:  Marine-Geo Digital Library (MGDL)
project Keywords
keyword term:  NorthAtlantic_Law
Location keywords:
keyword term:  North Atlantic Ocean
Resource language:   eng
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
1986-10-24 2008-11-06
point of contact - pointOfContact
organisation Name  Marine Geoscience Digital Library (MGDL) | Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance (IEDA) | Columbia University
position Name  MGDL Data Manager
Contact information
Postal Address:
electronic Mail Address:  info@marine-geo.org
point of contact - author
individual Name  Lavender Law, Kara
organisation Name  Sea Education Association
point of contact - author
individual Name  Proskurowski, Giora
organisation Name  Sea Education Association
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Reference system information

Reference System Identifier
Identifier string:  urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
authority
Title  EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry
publication date 2008-11-12
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Distributor
distributor contact - pointofContact
organisation Name  Marine Geoscience Digital Library (MGDL) | Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance (IEDA) | Columbia University
position Name  MGDL Data Manager
Contact information
Postal Address:
electronic Mail Address:  info@marine-geo.org
Format
Format name  ASCII
Format version  1
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
name  link to landing page for resource
URL:  http://www.marine-geo.org/tools/datasets/16352
protocol  http
link function  information
Description  Link to landing page for Plastics in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
Linkage for online resource
name  DOI Landing Page
URL:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1594/IEDA/100014
protocol  http
link function  information
Description  Link to DOI landing page.
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Metadata Information

Metadata data stamp:  2024-02-25
Metadata contact - pointofContact
organisation Name  Marine Geoscience Digital Library (MGDL) | Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance (IEDA) | Columbia University
position Name  MGDL Data Manager
Contact information
Postal Address:
electronic Mail Address:  info@marine-geo.org
Metadata scope code  series
Metadata language   eng
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
standard version:  ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Metadata record identifier:  urn:org.marine-geo:metadata:16352
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