Report of the PICES Volunteer Observing Ship workshop
By: edited by Charles B. Miller.
Contributors: Miller, C. B.; Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (Program); North Pacific Marine Science Organization.
Series: PICES scientific report -- no. 21.
Publisher: North Pacific Marine Science Organization
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Sidney, B.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9780973149210
Subjects: Marine plankton -- Monitoring -- North Pacific Ocean.
Other titles: PICES-GLOBEC international program on climate change and carrying capacity.
Description: "PICES and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council's Gulf Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) program presently sponsor a plankton monitoring program in the subarctic Pacific, that uses commercial "volunteer observing ships" (VOS) to tow a Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) along repeated routes from southern California to Alaska, and from British Columbia to Japan.  Value of the CPR data would be greatly enhanced by additional underway measurements from the VOS.  A workshop to identify and evaluate potential add-on sensor and archival modules was held on April 4-5, 2002, in Seattle. The recommended system would include one group of instruments making measurements of water from the ship's engine room sea-water intake, and a second group of instruments (mounted on or near the bridge) making optical, acoustic, and sea-state measurements, and perhaps deploying expendable subsurface profiling probes (XBT or XCTD).  Total price for the acquisition and testing of the first unit would probably be under US$250,000.  Subsequent units could be assembled for about US$150,000.  Workshop participants recommend that a technical proposal for funding such a system be developed, and seek endorsement by PICES and approval to proceed with proposal development as an official PICES activity."--Exec. Sum.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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