Tara_Oceans_expedition
Experiment: | Tara_Oceans_expedition |
PIs*: | Antoine, David | Boss, Emmanuel | Chase, Alison | Claustre, Herve | Slade, Wayne |
Start Time: | Sep 13 2009 01:33AM |
End Time: | Mar 30 2012 01:24PM |
North: | 47.151 |
South: | -64.348 |
East: | 73.909 |
West: | -159.078 |
Data Types: | pigment, flow_thru, mooring |
Parameters: | allo alpha-beta-car ap ap_sd bacterio_chl_a bottle but-fuco chl_a chl_b chl_c1c2 chl_c3 chlide_a cp cp_sd ctd_file diadino diato dv_chl_a dv_chl_b es es_sd fuco hex-fuco hplc_lov hplc_lov_id lu lu_sd lut neo perid phide_a phytin_a pras quality rrs rrs_sd sal tot_chl_a tot_chl_b viola volfilt wt zea |
DOI
10.5067/SeaBASS/TARA_OCEANS_EXPEDITION/DATA001Description
The Tara Oceans expedition, a 2.5-year long and 57,000 mile long trajectory, was conceived to provide a snapshot of the distribution of planktonic organisms in the world ocean, providing 'A global-scale study of morphological, genetic, and functional biodiversity of plankton organisms in relation to the changing physico-chemical parameters of the oceans' (Karsenti et al., 2011). The expedition took place from September 2009 to March 2012, spanned the majority of the world's oceans, and included, besides a large array of biological sampling, hydrographic measurements, optical measurements of surface hyper-spectral particulate absorption and attenuation, hyper-spectral reflectance and HPLC pigments.E. Karsenti, S.G. Acinas, P. Bork, C. Bowler, C. De Vargas, J. Raes, and 22 co-authors, A holistic approach to marine eco-systems biology, PLoS Biol. 9, e1001177, (2011), doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001177.