Participants will be drawn principally from countries surrounding the Black Sea and eastern Mediterranean region, but a few additional spaces are available for students from North Africa and the Middle-East. The submission deadline is July 1st. The excellent Earth Observatory website has several ocean-colour related sections to the website. Included are SeaWiFS images of the Bering Sea showing large coccolithophore blooms, and also a comprehensive article on the subject, Changing Currents Color the Bering Sea a New Shade of Blue . The Autonomous Plankton Sampler is the result of a collaborative venture between the Centre for Coastal Marine Science and Chelsea Instruments to design and develop a new versatile, low-cost plankton sampler mechanism.
Error detection is used on all data transfers.
The plankton sampler screen allows the operator to set the frame advance rate based on either time, chlorophyll-a or flow. Environmental organisations and those with specific responsibility for monitoring water quality and providing potable water need to have the capability to forecast when a bloom is going to occur and in sufficient time scales so that actions to limit the effect can be taken. The instrument will be submersible and designed for unattended operation in lakes, rivers, reservoirs, fish farms and the general marine environment. For more information visit the Chelsea Instruments homepage . All new publications will be available for download and online viewing.