Artificial Upwelling Progress, 1976-1977

Details

• Personal Author:
  Laurence, Scott ; Haines, K. C. ; Van Hemelryck, L. ; Roels, Oswald A.
• Corporate Authors:
  Port Aransas Marine Laboratory ; National Sea Grant Program (U.S.)
• NOAA Program & Office:
  Sea Grant ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
• Sea Grant Program:
  NSGO/NSGLC (National Sea Grant)
• Description:
  A pilot-stage, two-trophic-level, deep-sea water mariculture system was operated on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands over a nine-month period. Antarctic Intermediate Water from about 870 m depth was pumped continuously into two 50,000-liter onshore pools. The pools were inoculated with laboratory grown cultures of the diatom Chaetoceros curvisetus (STX-167) and operated at a turnover rate of 1.15 day-1. Twenty-nine (29) such cultures were started and lasted an average of 17.0 days each. Mean down-time required for deactivation and restarting of cultures was 54 hours.
• Keywords:
  Mariculture Upwelling (Oceanography)
• Document Type:
  Miscellaneous
• Funding:
  Funding: NOAA; project number: 0-6-158-44117;
• Place as Subject:
  United States Virgin Islands ; Saint Croix
• Rights Information:
  Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:42fa90197065c5ac29ac5eb928494fd53c559c5fe3713b6c264ee15a20de7b81
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/12919/noaa_12919_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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