Beyond Chlorophyll Fluorescence: The Time is Right to Expand Biological Measurements in Ocean Observing Programs

Emmanuel Boss (1) , Anya Waite (2) , Frank Muller-Karger (3) , Hidekatsu Yamazaki (4) , Rik Wanninkhof (5) , Julia Uitz (6) , Sandy Thomalla (7) , Heidi Sosik (8) , Bernadette Sloyan (9) , Anthony Richardson (10) , Patricia Miloslavich (11) , Johannes Karstensen (12) , Gérald Grégori (13) , Katja Fennel (14) , Hervé Claustre (6) , Marcela Cornejo (15) , Ilana Berman-Frank (16) , Sonia Batten (17) , Silvia G. Acinas (18)

1 University of Maine
2 Climate Sciences Department [Bremerhaven]
3 USF - University of South Florida [Tampa]
4 Tokyo University of Science [Tokyo]
5 NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
6 LOV - Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche
7 SOCCO - Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observatory
8 WHOI - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
9 CSIRO, Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS, Australia
10 CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
11 Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
12 GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research [Kiel]
13 MIO - Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie
14 DO - Department of Oceanography [Halifax]
15 Universidad de Concepción - University of Concepcion [Chile]
16 University of Haifa [Haifa]
17 SAPHOS, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
18 ICM - Institute of Marine Sciences / Institut de Ciències del Mar [Barcelona]

A new Scientific Committee for Ocean Research (SCOR, http://www.scor-int.org /) working group has been formed, entitled SCOR WG-154 “Integration of Plankton-Observing Sensor Systems to Existing Global Sampling Programs (P-OBS, http://www.scor-int.org/SCOR_WGs_WG154.htm.).” The working group (P-OBS WG) is reviewing biological sensing technologies and measurements that are ready for integration into existing regional and global ocean observing programs. Multidisciplinary sets of measurements, whose choice is guided by research and societal benefit go als, will transform our understanding of ocean biology and its impacts on Earth systems.

Mots clés: Ocean; Plankton; Observation; Measurements

Domaines: Sciences de l'environnement

Emmanuel Boss, Anya Waite, Frank Muller-Karger, Hidekatsu Yamazaki, Rik Wanninkhof, et al.. Beyond Chlorophyll Fluorescence: The Time is Right to Expand Biological Measurements in Ocean Observing Programs. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, 2018, 27 (3), pp.89-90. ⟨10.1002/lob.10243⟩. ⟨hal-02024177⟩