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Research Project: AMT
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Abstract: The AMT programme undertakes biological, chemical and physical oceanographic research during the annual return passage of the RRS James Clark Ross between the UK and the Falkland Islands or the RRS Discovery between the UK and Cape Town, a distance of up to 13,500 km. This transect crosses a range of ecosystems from sub-polar to tropical and from euphotic shelf seas and upwelling systems to oligotrophic mid-ocean gyres. |
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Runtime:
2002-06-01
until
2006-05-31
Contact:
Dr Carol Robinson (AMT Principal Investigator); Miss Dawn Ashby (AMT Project Officer)
Project coordination:
Carol Robinson (PML)
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The programme began in 1995, with scientific aims to assess mesoscale to basin scale phytoplankton processes, the functional interpretation of bio-optical signatures and the seasonal, regional and latitudinal variations in mesozooplankton dynamics.
In 2002, the programme restarted (2002-2006) and broadened, to address a suite of cross-disciplinary questions concerning ocean plankton ecology and biogeochemistry and their links to atmospheric processes. This current programme involves 45 investigators, researchers and students from 6 partner
A funding proposal for the next phase of the AMT programme (8 cruises between 2007 and 2012) is currently being prepared.
Further information on this research project in the WWW:
- http://web.pml.ac.uk/amt/
Departments involved in this research project: