Oceanographic Cruises
Our lab group is primarily a
sea-going group, and over the past few years we've
participated in a variety of cruises in the
subtropical North Atlantic.
Since May 2001 our group has been enumerating the
pico-phytoplankton assemblages that numerically dominate the
autotrophic biomass in the Sargasso Sea. This
sampling has been in conjunction with the BATS time-series program, and
has been carried out on BIOS' two research vessels,
the R/V Weatherbird II (until
March 2006, bottom left) and the R/V
Atlantic Explorer (April
2006 to present, bottom right).
Group photo for June 2007 Climode/DOP cruise (X0705)
and cruise track.
Starting in the spring of 2008 our group is participating in
the Bering Sea Ecosystem Study aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter
Healy. This project is focused on studying the response of the
Bering Sea ecosystem to changes in sea ice extent as a result of
climate variability. Our specific component of this research is
to study changes in phytoplankton community composition and primary
production in relation to variability in sea ice extent. Please
visit our Bering
Sea research page for more details.
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Last Updated 31 July 2008
In February/March of 2004 and 2005 our group was the lead
group in our New Production project to study the impact of
winter storms on the biogeochemistry and biology of
the Sargasso Sea. These cruises were aboard the R/V Oceanus
out of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
Read more about our New
Production project here.
In May and November of 2006, and June of 2007 our
group was the lead in a
project to study biological and biogeochemical aspects of the marine
phosphorus cycle, on a transect
from Bermuda to Puerto Rico aboard the R/V Atlantic Explorer. Read
more about our Phosphorus
Project here .
