U.S.-France Cooperative Research: Biological Response Associated with Mesoscale Hydrodynamical Structures in the Western Mediterranean

这一为期两年的奖项支持南加州大学的T.D.Dickey和法国马赛海洋中心的Isabelle Taupier-LeTage之间的合作研究。研究人员将研究与地中海西部中尺度水动力特征相关的生物反应。他们研究的目标是开发两种系泊的跨学科仪器，将用于研究地中海西部的中尺度特征，并启动联合实地测量。迪基博士和他的研究小组为合作带来了系泊仪器开发的创新方法，并将其应用于海洋学中的多学科问题。他们在生物光学和物理数据集的收集、分析和建模方面拥有相当多的专业知识。这一点得到了这家法国集团在与西地中海相关的物理和生物测量和理论方面的经验的补充。跨学科海洋测量系统的最新进展现在使同时收集物理和生物光学数据成为可能。有关物理和生物过程、碳循环和全球气候变化的问题需要同时和互补的系泊测量、地面实况和遥感观测。灵敏和准确的系泊仪器的进一步发展将提高收集有关这些过程的信息的能力。

This two-year award supports cooperative research between T.D. Dickey of the University of Southern California and Isabelle Taupier-LeTage of the Center for Oceanography in Marseille, France. The investigators will study biological responses associated with the mesoscale hydrodynamical features in the western Mediterranean Sea. The objectives of their research are to develop two types of moored, interdisciplinary instrumentation, which will be utilized in studies of western Mediterranean mesoscale features, and to initiate joint field measurements. Dr. Dickey and his research group bring to the collaboration innovative approaches to moored instrumentation development and its application to multidisciplinary questions in oceanography. They have considerable expertise in the collection, analysis and modeling of bio-optical and physical data sets. This is complemented by the French group's experience with physical and biological measurements and theory relevant to the western Mediterranean Sea. Recent advances in interdisciplinary oceanic measurement systems now make it possible to collect physical and bio-optical data concurrently. Problems concerning the physical and biological processes, the carbon cycle, and global climate change require simultaneous and complementary moored measurements, ground truth and remote sensing observations. The further development of sensitive and accurate moored instrumentation will advance capabilities to collect information about these processes.