Long-term underwater images from around a single mooring site in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica (2017-2019)


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Abstract: Long-term images taken by the camera from the McMurdo Oceanographic Observatory mooring in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica during its 2-year deployment (2017-2019). The mooring was situated at the seawater terminus of the McMurdo Station seawater intake jetty at 21 m deep, typically under thick sea ice cover. The automated 360° pan-tilt-zoom (ptz) camera, inside of an air-filled self-cleaning dome, was programmed to move to 42 ptz "waypoints" every hour and take a still 1920x1080 JPG image for archiving. Lights, oriented in one direction only, illuminated a rock/rubble slope for much of each winter, when there was no natural illumination. The camera was situated on a concrete block, which elevated the camera about 1m off of the seabed. Motile and sessile benthic biota, including notothenioid fishes, anemones, pycnogonids, asteroids, soft-corals, sponges, and nudibranchs are commonly seen in the images. Some ptz waypoints survey the water column and underside of the sea ice, capturing also the presence of larval/juvenile fishes and other plankton/nekton in the water column. Maximum intervals between subsequent images from the same ptz waypoint were about 1 hour, though many waypoints were captured at somewhat higher frequency. Interval images, taken at 5-min intervals irrespective of camera orientation, were also captured. Images are occasionally obscured/impacted by the camera dome's wiper, darkness, low visibility, minor fouling of the camera dome, and out-of-focus lens elements.
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Title  Long-term underwater images from around a single mooring site in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica (2017-2019)
publication date 2020-12-29
released date 2020-12-28
revision date 2020-12-30
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individual Name  Cziko, Paul
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electronic Mail Address: pcziko@uoregon.edu
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URL: http://orcid.org/ORCID:0000-0002-1712-9594
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organisation Name  U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) Data Center
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Resource language:   eng
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Format version  1
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McMurdo Oceanographic Observatory (2017-2019); McMurdo Sound
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Sample Location (gmlPos):  -77.851 166.6645
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Temporal Extent
2018-01-19 2019-11-24
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funderName:NSF:GEO:OPP:Antarctic Instrumentation and Support awardNumber:1644196 awardTitle:Habitat Severity and Internal Ice in Antarctic Notothenioid Fishes
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funderName:NSF:GEO:OPP:Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems awardNumber:1644196 awardTitle:Habitat Severity and Internal Ice in Antarctic Notothenioid Fishes
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individual Name  Cziko, Paul
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URL: http://orcid.org/ORCID:0000-0002-1712-9594
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URL: https://www.usap-dc.org/view/dataset/601417
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organisation Name  Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance
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electronic Mail Address: web@usap-dc.org
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Metadata record identifier:  urn:ieda:metadata:Long-term-underwater-images-from-around-a-single-mooring-site-in-McMurdo-Sound--Antarctica-(2017-2019)
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