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Towed Underwater Vehicle |
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Cabell Davis |
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
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Opportunistic high-speed sampling with the Video Plankton Recorder on R/V Atlantis: Transit from Barbados to Uruguay.
Principal Investigator: Cabell Davis, Biology Dept, WHOI
Senior personnel: Fredrik Thwaites, AOPE Dept, WHOI
Phillip Alatalo, Biology Dept, WHOI
Proposal Abstract
The ocean covers 70% of the earth and plays a key role in regulating our climate, weather, and atmosphere. Plankton form the base of the ocean food web and are controlled by physical, chemical, and biological interactions operating across a broad range of scales from the individual organism to the ocean basin. Traditional sampling with nets and bottles is limited in time and space and destroys fragile forms, which are dominant components of oceanic communities. Prior support from the Dalio Explorer Fund allowed us to conduct unprecedented multi-scale high-resolution sampling of plankton and environmental variables during the M/V Alucia’s transit from Honolulu to P |
