Bio-Physical Interdisciplinary Trophic Studies

Pieper博士和他的合作者Holliday博士将开展一个为期两年的项目，以开发新的仪器，使海洋科学界能够测试各种空间和时间尺度上的物理海洋参数的变化如何导致浮游动物和微型浮游动物群落的组成和丰度的互补变化的假说。这项研究将是美国全球变化计划的全球海洋生态系统动力学计划的一部分。这些研究人员将开发六个系泊装置的阵列，其中包括电流计、热敏电阻和几种传感器，这些传感器旨在每隔半小时对浮游动物和微型动物的生物量和大小进行声学估计。这些系统将包括自动数据采集和实时遥测，以促进分析，并为瞬时事件的机会性抽样提供机会。

Dr. Pieper, and his collaborator Dr. Holliday, will undertake a two-year program to develop the new instrumentation that will allow the ocean science community to test hypotheses about how changes in physical oceanographic parameters at a variety of spatial and temporal scales will result in complementary changes in the composition and abundance of zooplankton and micronekton communities. This research will be part of the Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics program of the US Global CHange Program. These investigators will develop arrays for six moorings which will include current meters, thermistors, and several kinds of sensors designed to acoustically estimate zooplankton and micronekton biomass and size at one-half hour intervals. These systems will include automated data acquisition and real-time telemetry to facilitate analysis and provide opportunities for opportunistic sampling of transient events.