Nitrogen fixation rates from samples collected in the Chukchi Sea, Arctic Ocean near Barrow, Alaska in August of 2011 (ArcticNITRO project)

Date
2017-06-08Author
Sipler, Rachel E.
Bronk, Deborah
Yager, Patricia L.
Metadata
Show full item recordCitable URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1912/9027As published
https://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/701789Date Created
2017-06-02Location
Nearshore Arctic Ocean; Barrow, Alaska; 71.25-71.50N, 156-157Wwestlimit: -157.0625; southlimit: 71.11889; eastlimit: -156.65833; northlimit: 71.34444
DOI
10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.704528Keyword
nitrogen fixation; temperature; Arctic Ocean; nitrogen; nutrients; Chukchi SeaAbstract
This dataset provides rates of nitrogen fixation for the coastal Chukchi Sea near Barrow, Alaska. Nitrogen fixation supplies ‘new’ nitrogen to the global ocean and supports primary production and impacts global biogeochemical cycles. Historically, nitrogen fixation in marine waters was considered a predominantly warm water process but this and other recent studies have shown that nitrogen fixation is occurring at low rates in polar waters. This dataset reports rates of 3.5 – 17.2 nmol N L-1 d-1 in the ice-free coastal Alaskan Arctic. Additional investigations of high-latitude marine diazotrophic physiology are required to refine these N2 fixation estimates. For a complete list of measurements, refer to the supplemental document 'Field_names.pdf', and a full dataset description is included in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: http://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/701789
Description
Dataset: Arctic Nitrogen Fixation Rates
Suggested Citation
Dataset: Sipler, Rachel E., Bronk, Deborah, Yager, Patricia L., "Nitrogen fixation rates from samples collected in the Chukchi Sea, Arctic Ocean near Barrow, Alaska in August of 2011 (ArcticNITRO project)", 2017-06-08, DOI:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.704528, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/9027The following license files are associated with this item:
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
-
Controls of benthic nitrogen fixation and primary production from nutrient enrichment of oligotrophic, Arctic lakes
Gettel, Gretchen M.; Giblin, Anne E.; Howarth, Robert W. (Springer, 2013-12-01)We examined controls of benthic dinitrogen (N2) fixation and primary production in oligotrophic lakes in Arctic Alaska, Toolik Field Station (Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research Site). Primary production in many oligotrophic ... -
Iron availability limits the ocean nitrogen inventory stabilizing feedbacks between marine denitrification and nitrogen fixation
Moore, J. Keith; Doney, Scott C. (American Geophysical Union, 2007-04-04)Recent upward revisions in key sink/source terms for fixed nitrogen (N) in the oceans imply a short residence time and strong negative feedbacks involving denitrification and N fixation to prevent large swings in the ocean ... -
Phosphate availability and the ultimate control of new nitrogen input by nitrogen fixation in the tropical Pacific Ocean
Moutin, T.; Karl, David M.; Duhamel, Solange; Rimmelin, P.; Raimbault, P.; Van Mooy, Benjamin A. S.; Claustre, Hervé (Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union, 2008-01-29)Due to the low atmospheric input of phosphate into the open ocean, it is one of the key nutrients that could ultimately control primary production and carbon export into the deep ocean. The observed trend over the last 20 ...