BioSWOT-Med blog: The flow cytometer
INTERVIEW – Morgane Didry is in charge of flow cytometry in the BioSWOT-Med platform. Here she explains how it works and what information it can provide about different assemblages of phytoplankton.
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BioSWOT-Med blog: The exclusion experiment to measure zooplankton grazing
INTERVIEW – During BioSWOT-Med Alice della Penna is in charge of study zooplankton grazing. She explains what it is, why it is important to measure it and she describe a new “exclusion experiment” to study it during the campaign.
BioSWOT-Med blog: The ADCPs
INTERVIEW – Anne Petrenko is in charge of analysis of hull mounted ADCP and of deployment of L-ADCP and FF-ADCP in the BioSWOT-Med campaign. Here, she describes how these instruments work and what are the differences among them.
BioSWOT-Med blog: Surface drifters and floats
INTERVIEW – In the BioSWOT-Med cruise Massimo Pacciaroni will be in charge of drifters and floats deployment. He describes what the differences are between the two and what physical processes they can study.
BioSWOT-Med blog: The lagrangian experiments
INTERVIEW –Maristella Berta is in charge of lagrangian instrument coordination in the BioSWOT-Med campaign. She describes what drifters and floats are, what information can be gathered from them and how real-time data can help inform the adaptative sampling strategy of BioSWOT-Med.
BioSWOT-Med blog: The Zooglider
INTERVIEW – In the BioSWOT-Med campaign, Sven Gastauer is in charge of Zooglider, a specialized glider to study mesozooplankton. He describes its functioning, the different instruments mounted on it, and the large range of data that can be gathered.
BioSWOT-Med blog: The Omics
INTERVIEW - In the BioSWOT-Med campaign, Magali Lescot is in charge of the WP5 on Genomics. She will collect samples to study the microbial community (viruses, bacteria, protists) to evaluate the patchiness of these plankton functional types and taxa and monitor the short term biogeochemical functional responses of the microbiome to the highly dynamic physical environment.
BioSWOT-Med blog: Exploring the links between fine scale structures and zooplankton patchiness
INTERVIEW – François Carlotti is the leader of BioSWOT-Med's WP4 "From zooplankton to higher trophic levels", whose objective is to understand how fine scale oceanic structures may affect the patchiness of metazoan organisms from the smallest (zooplankton) to the largest (cetaceans). Here, he describes the hypothesis under test to explain the distribution of different zooplankton groups in different water masses.
BioSWOT-Med blog: How to study zooplankton diversity?
INTERVIEW – In the BioSWOT-Med cruise Loic Guillox is in charge of zooplankton sampling. Here he explains the different analyses that will be carried out later on back in the lab to assess zooplankton diversity.
BioSWOT-Med blog: The FF-ADCP and the CTD
INTERVIEW - The ADCP and CTD are two classical instruments for measuring oceanic physical characteristics. Stéphanie Barrillon, researcher at MIO, explains how they work