St Helena Open-ocean Time-series Study (S.H.O.T.S)

This dataseries consists of an excel files and a collection of CSV files which contains data on abundance of zooplankton at the sampling station, vertical profile of the water column and water clarity taken from 1 common location around St.Helena.The zooplankton samples were taken using simple zooplankton nets (aperture 60cm with a 1Lsolid cod end extension) hauled vertically from 200m to the surface. Two samples were taken using two different net mesh sizes (100µm and 250µm). Furthermore data was collected on 7 properties in the water column: temperature, salinity, conductivity, pressure, depth, sound velocity and density of the upper ocean (<500m). Each individual cast is contained in a seperate csv file. The clarity of water is measured using a 30cm white secchi disk.