In situ water column sensor data from NUI dive 046 at the Lucky B hydrothermal field, R/V Polarstern expedition PS137

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The dataset contains positioning and in situ sensor data collected by the underwater vehicle Nereid Under Ice (NUI) while exploring the hydrothermal plumes of the Lucky B site (81°N, Lena Trough) in June–July 2023 during RV Polarstern expedition PS137. The data span the entire deployment, including an sensing and mapping phases in AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) mode and a geotransect phase in ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) mode. Specifically, the dataset contains temperature, salinity, turbidity, redox-potential, and relative methane concentrations.During NUI's water column survey, the primary sensors utilized aboard NUI were the same package routinely used for AUV-based plume surveys (CTD, optical backscatter, and ORP sensors) augmented with a Franatech in situ METS Methane Sensor. The METS sensor was not calibrated, hence providing relative enrichments rather than absolute concentrations of dissolved CH4 in the water column.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.983459
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.983459
Provenance
Creator German, Christopher R ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003207 Crossref Funder ID AWI_PS137_04 NUI Team; NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration https://doi.org/10.13039/100000104 Crossref Funder ID 80NSSC19K1427 https://oceanworlds.whoi.edu/projects/exploring-ocean-worlds-exow/ NASA Astrobiology Program; NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration https://doi.org/10.13039/100000104 Crossref Funder ID 80NSSC22K1312 https://oceanworlds.whoi.edu/science-and-technology-for-ocean-worlds-ice-covered-chemosynthetic-ecosystems/ NASA Astrobiology Program PSTAR
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 3008433 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-3.492W, 81.336S, -3.322E, 81.401N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2023-07-24T22:49:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-07-25T10:07:00Z