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2030 SE Marine Science Dr, Newport, OR 97365
https://hmsc.oregonstate.edu/main/science-tapSpeaker: Bob Cowen, HMSC Director and Associate Vice President for Marine Research Operations and Su Sponaugle, Department of Integrative Biology, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University
Topic: Peering Beneath the Surface – Plankton in real life
The use of increasingly advanced technologies for accessing the underwater world is key to the advancement of our understanding of marine ecology. This is particularly evident in the study of plankton, or organisms that live in the sea and drift with currents. Ranging from microscopic organisms to copepods, larval invertebrates and fishes, and gelatinous organisms, much of this planktonic life forms the base of the marine food web which supports larger and larger organisms up to marine mammals and even humans. Recent work with the In Situ Ichthyoplankton Imaging System (ISIIS), and its associated automated image processing pipeline, is presented as an example of where progress has been made with imaging systems. Examples are given of the application of ISIIS from projects conducted within the California Current Ecosystem ranging from detailed perspectives of thin layer dynamics in Monterey Bay, California, to riverine influence on cross shelf plankton community distributions to utilizing near-real time analyses to drive adaptive sampling within hypoxic areas off the Oregon coast.
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Webinar ID: 998 9560 4117