A video-plankton and microstructure profiler for the exploration of in situ connections between zooplankton and turbulence

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Tetjana Ross (Dalhousie University)
• Tuesday 16 April 2013, 10:30-11:30
• British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Norman Ratcliffe.

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

Turbulence and mixing is both ubiquitous in the environment of planktonic organisms and a critical part of large-scale physical and chemical oceanographic budgets. Recent studies have shown conflicting results about whether zooplankton contribute to ocean mixing and whether turbulence affects zooplankton feeding and swimming behavior positively, negatively or not at all. At least some of the confusion likely arises from the lack of properly resolved, simultaneous and co-located observations of zooplankton and turbulence. This talk introduces and discusses results from preliminary deployments of a Video Plankton Recorder – Vertical Microstructure Profiler (VPR-VMP), which is shown to provide this type of data. There is evidence of avoidance of the VPR -VMP by krill, which raises questions as to whether any microstructure profiler can accurately assess krill-generated mixing.

This talk is part of the British Antarctic Survey series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• All Talks (aka the CURE list)
• Biology
• British Antarctic Survey
• British Antarctic Survey, Room 307
• Cambridge Environment
• Climate Science Seminars within Cambridge
• Featured lists
• Life Sciences
• Life Sciences
• ME Seminar
• Queens' College Politics Society
• School of Physical Sciences
• Talks related to atmosphere and ocean dynamics and climate science
• my_list
• ob366-ai4er
• other talks

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.