Long-term Ecosystem Observatory
- Long-term Ecosystem Observatory
The Long-term Ecological Observatory is a project off the coast of New Jersey, USA, which monitors the processes in the ocean with online IT systems, spearheaded by the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University. Already installed are sensors for temperature, salinity, transmission, light, light attenuation, fluorescence, pressure and velocity.
With improvements in Internet infrastructure it will be possible to observe and evaluate plankton (like copepods) or juvenile fish (like Atlantic herring) online with a quantitative "in situ" microscope, known as the ecoSCOPE, in order to get more insight into some of the most fascinating but still enigmatic life histories of ocean organisms, like predator-prey interaction between herring and copepods, the Eel story, or oxygen depletion.
External links
* Schofield, O.; "et al.": " [http://marine.rutgers.edu/cool/coolresults/papers/Schofield_etal_IEEEJOceanicEng_27-2_April2002.pdf The Long-Term Ecosystem Observatory: An Integrated Coastal Observatory] ", IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering 27(2); April 2002.
* [http://marine.rutgers.edu/ Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University]
* [http://marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/LEO/LEO15.html LEO15 university website]
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