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The workshop discusses research topics within the water column focusing on advection, mixing, ecosystems, and monitoring techniques to exploit data sets. It emphasizes the development of research competence, studying ecosystems from different locations, and improving data resolution.
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WORKSHOP ON CABLE-BASED OCEAN OBSERVATORIES 11-12 JUNE 2007, RADISSON SAS HOTEL NORGE, BERGEN Research topics within Water column Participants: Inge Morten Skaar Arne Johannessen Olav Rune Godø Dag L. Aksnes Lars G. Golmen Peter M. Haugan Ingunn Nilssen Stein Kaartvedt Svein Østerhus Arved Staby
Heading1 • The main objective and delivery from the workshop is a catalogue on ideas and possibilities regarding international research and technology. Each participant is invited to suggest research topics within his or her own scientific field.
Research ideas – water column • Water column advection and mixing makes it possible to transfer insight from one location to another • Need focus on establishment of research techniques to exploit future data sets • Development of competence: long time scale to educate in new methods and to provide knowledge basis to exploit new technological opportunities • Can be done during limited time periods and in different locations to get experience also with handling of data • Generic, not site-specific process understanding can be gained in many places, can build upon existing knowledge • Midwater (mesopelagic) ecosystems and vertical migration may be more easily studied in semi-enclosed water bodies • Near surface ecosystems better to study from below than from research vessels • Advantages of measurements from fixed points (advection) • Improved resolution is possible from instruments in the water column or at seafloor
Research ideas – water column • Test sites should be in locations where variability is encountered (or equipment be moved) • We have unique facilities in fjords • Section across slope from Andenes would cover: • Heat flux, salinity, density, role of mesoscale eddies • Advection of biomass of several important stocks, nutrients, recruitment and Calanus transport towards the Barents Sea • Runde Environmental Centre is considering cable facilities for biodiversity, seabirds, herring, cod, along slope transports (similar to Andenes) and shallow cable • Faroe-Shetland area would provide good opportunities to combine measurements of the state of the physical climate system and biological resources • Process linked to sea ice and light conditions including day length, Polar front systems at high latitudes • Measure the changing physical and biological state of the Arctic Ocean • Locations where process studies could be combined with time series monitoring (including real time pollution monitoring) could maximize use of resources • Multidisciplinary studies should be encouraged, possibly also towards fluxes from below seafloor
Research ideas – water column • Cable transects would open possibility to revisit Norwegian Coastal Current including its optical properties; need for robust profiling instrumentation • Monitoring of near seafloor natural variability and possible disturbances (CO2 leaks) • Marine Protected Areas will need research to define monitoring needs (e.g. Lurefjorden biosphere concept) • Mechanisms for seasonal migration of Calanus and effects on the productivity of the Nordic Seas • Include environmental stress factors like CO2 • Should include hydrography, currents, active and passive acoustic monitoring everywhere • Combination with satellite altimetry, ocean colour and other emerging remote sensing data • Methods for data handling and analysis required particularly for large data flows (acoustic, optical, and video)
General points (in addition to research topics) • Requirements to build up organisation for installation and running the facility • New petroleum developments may provide opportunities for linking up and adding additional measurements • Outreach opportunities through new science centre facilities (Vitensenter)