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Peru's coastal ocean is the focus of this dataset from a 1985 research cruise investigating microbial nitrogen pathways within oxygen-deficient water masses. The project, funded by the National Science Foundation and conducted by NOAA NCEI, collected data on primary productivity, chlorophyll, and optical water characteristics. Fieldwork occurred from February 1 to March 5, 1985, with a cruise track designed to locate specific conditions for hypothesis testing.
The 'somewhat random walk' nature of the cruise track indicates sampling was adaptive to locate specific conditions, which may affect spatial representativeness.