"Collaborative Research: Combining Video Plankton Recorder imaging with Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy and Raman Spectroscopy to identify plankton and seston.

对浮游生物视频记录仪（VPR）技术与激光诱导击穿光谱（LIBS）和拉曼光谱技术相结合，实现浮游生物物种水平远程识别的可行性进行探索性研究。PI将使用从沿海水域和培养皿中收集的已知浮游生物物种进行实验室实验。结果数据将通过将VPR图像的形态学特征与LIBS和拉曼光谱剖面获得的特征相结合来分析。利用这些综合特征，他们预计能够将分类学分辨率的检测提高到物种水平。

Funding is provided for exploratory research into the feasibility of combining Video Plankton Recorder (VPR) technology with Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) and Raman spectroscopy to remotely identify plankton to the species level. The PI's will conduct laboratory experiments using known species of plankton collected from coastal waters and cultures. The resulting data will be analyzed by combining morphological features from the VPR images with features obtained from the LIBS and Raman spectral profiles. Using these combined features, they anticipate being able to improve the detection of taxonomic resolution down to species level.