OPEREX Cruise Objective
The objective of the OPEREX cruise will be to explore the potential and limitations of perturbation experiments at sea. We will follow some natural perturbations including blooms and eddies, and we will perform some of the artificial perturbation experiments including bench/lab scale incubations, ship deck incubations, and ship deck pH shift experiments.
Original cruise data are available from the NSF R2R data catalog
Dataset | Brief Description |
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Cast and Sample Logs - Scanned | Scanned C-MORE cruise cast and sample logs |
Cruise Track Image | Cruise track showing station locations |
CTD | CTD Profiles |
Stations | Stations |
Core HPLC | Core HPLC |
Cruise Track | Cruise Track |
Core | Core data |
UVP | Particle size from the Underwater Vision Profiler (UVP) |
Discrete - 13C samples | 13C-productivity measurements with rate calculations as per Legendre and Gosselin |
Discrete - 15N2 samples | N2-fixation rate measurements employed the 15-N2 isotopic tracer method described by Montoya et al. |
Transcriptomics - OPEREX | Transcriptomics - OPEREX |
Chief Scientist: Dr Zbigniew Kolber
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
• OPEREX
• C-MORE
• Ocean Pertubation Experiment (OPEREX)