©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.This dataset includes water temperature data measured at 30 minute intervals in a mytilid mussel bed (Mytilus spp.) by a HOBO Pendant MX logger (MX2201, Onset Computer Corporation, Bourne, MA). The site was located at Argyle Creek on San Juan Island, WA, USA from 2019 to 2024.
This dataset contains ocean water temperatures recorded from the field to determine the range of temperatures experienced by mytilid mussels throughout the year. Temperatures were sampled from a mussel bed at Argyle Creek on San Juan Island, WA, USA (48.521791N, 123.01417W). The saltwater "creek" connects the ocean to a saltwater lagoon that fills at high tide and empties during low tide. As such, the creek experiences a range of water temperatures due to its tidal interactions with the lagoon. Water temperatures at this site were monitored because the mussels served as subjects for our lab-based physiological experiments. The focus of our lab experiments was on processes occurring during submersion, and mussels at this field site remain submerged.
Water temperatures were collected using a BlueTooth-capable HOBO logger (sampling frequency = 30 minutes; HOBO Tidbit MX2203; Onset, Bourne, MA) deployed from June 2019 to January 2024. Temperature sensor precision = 0.01C. The sensor was attached to the substratum by screwing it into a wall anchor in a concrete block (L x W x H = 40 cm x 40 cm x 5 cm). The HOBO remained submerged at all times.
Datetime and temperature data were offloaded from a sensor via Bluetooth connection to the HoboConnect monitoring app (Google Play store) on a Samsung Galaxy S21 phone. In MATLAB 24.2.0.2712019 (R2024b), columns were added for UTC datetimes, sampling location, latitude, and longitude. Times were recorded in PST and provided for comparison to local tide tables. UTC times are also provided to aid in any global comparisons. Sensor deployment and data analysis conducted by M. Nishizaki.
Organism identifiers:
Taxonomic name used in metadata, common name, Life Science Identifier (LSID)
Mytilus spp., mussel, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138228
Nishizaki, M. T. (2025) Temperatures from inside a mussel bed located at Argyle Creek on San Juan Island, WA, USA from 2019 to 2024. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2025-01-28 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.949773.1 [access date]
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