This allows to directly switch to the new generation of green or blue lasers and highly sensitive detector arrays when these come available. This will significantly increase the information measured from each particle. Another example are Ditylum cells. Measured pulse shapes of a typical cell are shown. The length of this particular cell measured between the vertical lines is about 95 m. GKSS Cruise top of page GKSS invited us to join on a cruise in the German Bight on the Heincke, April 1998.
Some typical data is shown below.
The CytoBuoy project was presented at the the conference with an oral presentation and a poster. In situ optical scanning of individual particles with a buoy mounted flow cytometer. In June 98, the flow cytometer module was mounted inside the buoy, and this prototype CytoBuoy was put in an outside water basin. The data was succesfully transferred by radio to a receiving radio-modem combination linked to a notebook computer in the laboratory after each sampling. We expect that flow cytometry has the potential to become a valuable monitoring tool in biological and optical oceanography amd limnology, especially if we can implement features that would optimize their applicability in these fields.