Drift Card Experiment: Deployment dates, times and locations and recovery dates and locations for drift cards released at various locations in the Gulf of Mexico between April 2013 and October 2015

In 2013-2015 over 6000 drift cards were deployed at various locations in the Gulf of Mexico by volunteers from various vessels of opportunity. By February 2016 approximately 10% of the deployed cards were recovered and reported to staff associated with the Gulf of Mexico Research Integrated Spill Response (GISR) Research Consortia. This is the raw dataset consisting of the deployment information for all cards released and the deployment and recovery information for cards recovered.

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Source https://data.griidc.org/data/R1.x137.131:0001
Data Profile Created September 3, 2024, 16:27 (UTC)
Data Profile Last Updated September 20, 2024, 14:21 (UTC)
Data Collection End Date 2016-02-22
Data Collection Start Date 2013-04-05
Point of Contact Piers Chapman Texas A&M University / Department of Oceanography
Latitude Maximum 30.34
Latitude Minimum 21.61
Longitude Maximum -84.63
Longitude Minimum -97.06