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Deep Scattering Layers of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Observed with a Shipboard 38-Khz Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler A.M Gulf of Mexico Science Volume 25 Article 1 Number 2 Number 2 2007 Deep Scattering Layers of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Observed With a Shipboard 38-kHz Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler A.M. Kaltenberg Oregon State University D.C. Biggs Texas A&M University S.F. DiMarco Texas A&M University DOI: 10.18785/goms.2502.01 Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/goms Recommended Citation Kaltenberg, A., D. Biggs and S. DiMarco. 2007. Deep Scattering Layers of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Observed With a Shipboard 38-kHz Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler. Gulf of Mexico Science 25 (2). Retrieved from https://aquila.usm.edu/goms/vol25/iss2/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Gulf of Mexico Science by an authorized editor of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Kaltenberg et al.: Deep Scattering Layers of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Observed Wi Gulf of Mexico Scimce, 2007(2), pp. 97-108 Deep Scattering Layers of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Observed With a Shipboard 38-kHz Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler A. M. KALTENBERG, D. C. BIGGS, AND S. F. DIMARCO Midwater sound-scattering layers containing aggregations of zooplankton and micronekton prey form in response to a trade-off between predator avoidance at depth and optimal foraging near the surface. Although the volume backscatter strength of zooplankton aggregations have been extensively studied in the past, fewer studies have specifically examined other descriptive characteristics of these layers such as depth of layers, timing of migrations, and the presence of secondary scattering layers below the main scattering layer. In the present study, patterns of deep scattering layers (DSLs) were characterized using relative acoustic backscatter from a ship­ mounted 38-kHz phased-array, acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) in the northern Gulf of Mexico in summers 2002 and 2003. Temporal patterns of scattering layers were analyzed with respect to the timing of the daytime and nighttime die! vertical migrations, and spatial patterns of scattering layers were analyzed with respect to their proximity to mesoscale circulation features associated with upwelling, downwelling, and water depth. The most prominent main scattering layer was consistently found at daytime depth of 450 to 550 m below the surface except during an unusual shoaling event in which a significant shallowing of the layer was observed at 200 to 300 m below the surface. This event coincided with the crossing of a strong frontal boundary between high salinity, blue water and low salinity, green water from the Mississippi River plume. Less prominent secondary scattering layers found deeper than the main scattering layer showed regional variability and appear to be more frequently associated with shallower shelf depths than in the deepwater basin. Variability among deep scattering layers in this region may have important implications for the behavior and interactions of higher trophic levels dependent on these prey layers. he Gulf of !v!exico is a semienclosed sub­ with local mesoscale eddies (Morey eta!., 2003). T tropical basin in which physical circulation Apex predators are often geographically associ­ is dominated by the Loop Current that extends ated with biological hotspots around cyclonic variably northward into the basin. Mesoscale eddies. Sperm whales forage in the range anticyclonic eddies are shed from the Loop between 500 and 1,000 m in this region, yet Current with an irregular periodicity of between relatively little is known about the predator-prey 6 and 12 mo (Sturges and Leben, 2000). Around dynamics of this deepwater prey community or the periphery of these anticyclones are often one how oceanographic forces influence the biology or more cyclonic eddies. In the deepwater Gulf of the community. of Mexico biological productivity is modified by Common taxa in the mesopelagic community, presence or absence of these mesoscale circula­ including copepods, euphausiids, mysids, deca­ tion features. Enhanced near-surface chlorophyll pods, etc., undergo die! vertical migrations standing stocks may occur when and where (DVMs) out of surface waters during daytime cyclonic eddies cause the doming up of deepwa­ (Hopkins and Baird, 1985; Hays, 2003), and ter nutrients. Cyclonic eddies of enhanced form layers in the mid-water column. DV1v1 is a productivity may attract higher trophic-level universal phenomenon occurring in all the predators and are considered biological hot­ world's oceans as well as many freshwater systems spots, whereas their anticyclonic counterparts and is widely accepted as a predator avoidance are considered biological deserts of low produc­ mechanism. Organisms descend out of the tivity (Biggs, 1992; Wormuth eta!., 2000; Biggs et smface during daytime light hours and ascend a!., 2005). In the northern Gulf of Mexico sea back to the surface at night for optimal feeding smface salinity may be strongly influenced by (Iwasa, 1982; Lampert, 1989; Ohman, 1990). The river inputs from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya most commonly hypothesized reason for DVM is rivers. Sea surface salinity can be highly variable that it leads to a reduced rate of predation on the geographically or seasonally as the plume of migrating animals, since in the dark animals are buoyant freshwater is advected by interactions not detectable by most visually orientated pred- © 2007 by the 1\.farine Environmental Sciences Consortium of Alabama Published by The Aquila Digital Community, 2007 1 Gulf of Mexico Science, Vol. 25 [2007], No. 2, Art. 1 98 GULF OF MEXICO SCIENCE, 2007, VOL. 25(2) ators (Pearre, 1979; Han and Straskraba, 2001). ADCPs at 38 kHz have not been routinely used Evidence supporting this hypothesis includes the in the past for studying biological processes from observation that DVM is more common in larger acoustic backscatter because of their relatively and more highly pigmented species (those most low vertical resolution. However, the trade-off of susceptible to visual detection by predators) and range to resolution means that it has a greater that DVM is more common when planktivorous vertical range, allowing the deep scattering fish are abundantly present than times when they community down to 1,000 m to be descriptively are not (Bollens and Frost, 1989; Hays, 1995; von analyzed. It also returns sound signal from larger Elert and Pohnert, 2000). Other factors con trib­ targets (> 1 em) that are likely important prey tlting to the diel pattern include seasonality of organisms for deep-diving apex predators. The phytoplankton blooms (Dagg et al., 1998), detection size is a function of instrument population size of the migrating species (Ander­ frequency and sound speed (MacLennan and sen and Sardou, 1994), ultraviolet radiation Simmons, 1992). Relative acoustic backscatter exposure at the surface during the daytime from a haul-mounted 38-kHz ADCP was used to (Rhode et al., 2001), and individual energy describe acoustic scattering layers and deep reserves, in which individual variability in daily aggregations in an attempt to understand the migration is influenced by their physical condi­ variability that occurs in the DSL community in tion. Animals with larger lipid stores generally the northern Gulf of Mexico. The presence and will migrate to the surface less often than those behavior of DSLs were analyzed with respect to individuals that metabolically cannot afford a water depth, proximity to mesoscale circulation lower feeding rate (Hays et al., 2001). features, and the influence of the Mississippi Acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) River plume. are being increasingly used for biological studies of zooplankton and micronekton despite being METHODS originally intended to measure ocean currents by the Doppler shift of sound scattered off passive Data collection.-Acoustic backscatter data were biological and other scatterers. Although many collected from the upper 1,000 m of the acoustic scatterers are essentially passive with the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope and currents in the horizontal plane, some may deep basin using a hull-mounted, phased-array undergo daily vertical migrations on the order 38-kHz ADCP (R.D. Instruments, 1996). The of hundreds of meters into and out of the single phased-array transducer of the ADCP surface waters, forming deep scattering layers produces four acoustic beams, each at 30° from (DSLs) at depth (Franceschini et al., 1970; vertical. Individual ping backscatter data are Pearcy et al., 1977; Andersen and Sardou, averaged over 16-m vertical bins and over a 5- 1994). Most research vessels now have ADCPs min sampling frequency by the manufacturer's available, thus providing data of opportunity for software. Surveys were conducted on six cruises investigation of important biological questions in summers 2002 and 2003 onboard the R/V Gyre that would otherwise not be feasible to study. supported by two different research programs; Previous spatial surveys of zooplankton and the Sperm vVhale Seismic Study and the Deep micronekton using shipboard ADCPs operating Gulf of Mexico Benthic study (DGoMB). The at 153 kHz have documented die! patterns of first of these projects included simultaneous zooplankton abundance in the Gulf of Mexico, visual and three-dimensional passive acoustic but were limited to only about 300 m in vertical tracking of sperm whales over the northern range (Heywood et al., 1991; Zimmerman and continental slope (ship track from these cruises Biggs, 1999; Wade and Heywood, 2001; Ressler, is shown in Fig. 1), whereas the second carried 2002). out oceanographic sampling of the Gulf of The objective of this study is to present the Mexico deepwater basin (cruise stations are results of an initial investigation using a ship­ shown in Fig. 2). Sea surface temperature, mounted 38-kHz ADCP to examine the biolog­ salinity, and fluorescence were sampled using ical layers and aggregations in and below a main an onboard flow-through conductivity-tempera­ DSL usually found between 350 and 550 m.
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