Program  
 
Optical sensing of plankton communities and dynamics
 

 
 
0950
The changing perspective of phytoplankton dynamics thanks to profiling floats.
Tuesday 8th @ 0950-1010, Conference Room 7
Emmanuel Boss* , University of Maine
Presenter Email: emmanuel.boss@maine.edu
Float equipped with optical sensors have different time-space sampling characteristics compared to satellites and cruise-based observations of phytoplankton. As a result, our understanding of phytoplankton annual cycles and the contrasting dynamics of chlorophyll and biomass are changing. Through several case studies I will illustrate how observations with profiling floats have changed our understanding of phytoplankton dynamics.
 
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