Oregon Shelf Benthic Experiment Package (CE02SHBP)

The Oregon Shelf Cabled Benthic Experiment Package (BEP) is located on the Continental Shelf, approximately 80 meters deep. The Continental Shelf-Slope area off the Oregon coast is a highly productive, dynamic upwelling environment.

Platform DOI and Citation Guidance

OOI assigns Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) at the platform or site level. The DOI for the Oregon Shelf Cabled Benthic Experiment Package is 10.58046/OOI-CE02SHBP.

The minimum recommended citation for this platform is:

NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative. (2014). Oregon Shelf Cabled Benthic Experiment Package, DOI: 10.58046/OOI-CE02SHBP.

This follows the format NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative. (Year Published). Platform title, DOI: Platform DOI, where Year Published is the year OOI data collection began at the site.

We encourage data users to incorporate full citations when referencing OOI data in order to support FAIR data principles and data traceability. OOI also provides further guidance on citations, including information on adding specific data products and data access points to citations.

Data Access

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Platform Description

The Oregon Shelf Cabled BEP is located on the Continental Shelf, approximately 80 meters deep. The Continental Shelf-Slope area off the Oregon coast is a highly productive, dynamic upwelling environment. Upwelling brings nutrients to the surface sparking primary production and fueling the food web. In recent years, upwelling has also brought onto the shelf hypoxic, low oxygen, waters that can be harmful to organisms in the area. By sampling in this area, the OOI seeks to gain better insight into upwelling dynamics of this system.

Like other BEPs the Oregon Shelf Cabled BEP is connected to and draws energy from Fiber Optic Cables to power its instruments and to transmit data from the instruments back to shore. Within the yellow protective armor of the BEP are two cages containing instruments that measure various properties of the bottom water.

The Cabled Endurance Oregon Shelf Cabled BEP is located near the base of a surface mooring and surface-piercing profiler mooring, providing complementary seafloor data to the air-sea and water column data collected by the moorings, allowing for the sampling of a full picture of shelf dynamics.

Instruments

This site/platform includes the following instruments. To learn more about an instrument type, select the instrument class-series. To access relevant data streams for an instrument, the instrument code will take you to the OOI Data Portal.