[Saanich Inlet Rate data] - Saanich Inlet field and laboratory methods related to experimental rate data acquired on board of the R/V John Strickland during two cruises in August, 2021 and June, 2022 (Collaborative Research: Nitrous oxide reduction in oxygen minimum zones: an understudied but critical loss term in ocean greenhouse gas cycling)

Data and samples were collected aboard the R/V John Strickland during two cruises in August, 2021 and June, 2022. Data from 2021 capture the dynamics of an oxygen renewal event of the deep anoxic basin, which occurred between the second and third sampling days.

Data from 2022 were collected during stable, stratified conditions with complete anoxia in the deep basin throughout the sampling period. Rate measurements are from 15N-labeled tracer experiments tracking the production and consumption of nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent greenhouse gas that is produced under hypoxic and anoxic conditions. These data evaluate the extent to which consumption of N2O in the deep basin balances out is production in overlying waters and were collected by Dr.