{"id":535297,"date":"2024-04-03T15:55:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T19:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/?p=535297"},"modified":"2024-04-04T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T15:23:07","slug":"historic-continuing-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/historic-continuing-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic, Continuing Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_535299\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-535299\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-535299\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2024\/04\/Cytobot-300x230.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2024\/04\/Cytobot-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2024\/04\/Cytobot.png 625w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-535299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Taylor Crockford \u00a9 WHOI.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative (NSF-OOI) and the Northeast U.S. Shelf (NES) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project have been collaborating since 2017, when the original OOI Coastal Pioneer Array was deployed 75 nautical miles off the coast of Martha\u2019s Vineyard.\u00a0 Representatives from the\u00a0<strong><a class=\"tab-enabled external\" href=\"https:\/\/nes-lter.whoi.edu\/\" aria-label=\"Go to link... NES-LTER project\"><span class=\"tab-enabled__content\">NES-LTER project<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>would join the Pioneer Deployment and Recovery expeditions in this region for their spring and fall seasonal cruise. Their work includes deploying an Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) to sample continuously from the ship\u2019s underway science seawater while OOI cruises were underway.<\/p>\n<p>An IFCB is an in-situ automated submersible flow cytometer that generates images of particles taken from the aquatic environment. Designed and built by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the IFCB has since become commercially available through\u00a0<strong><a class=\"tab-enabled external\" href=\"http:\/\/mclanelabs.com\/\" aria-label=\"Go to link... McLane Research Laboratories\"><span class=\"tab-enabled__content\">McLane Research Laboratories<\/span><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIFCB enables us to study the phytoplankton and microzooplankton inhabitants of a given region. \u00a0We can see what plankton are present over time and how the community structure adjusts to changes in the ecosystem,\u201d explained\u00a0<strong><a class=\"tab-enabled external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/profile\/ecrockford\/\" aria-label=\"Go to link... Taylor Crockford\"><span class=\"tab-enabled__content\">Taylor Crockford<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, a WHOI researcher who regularly deploys IFCBs. \u201cNES-LTER conducts four seasonal cross-shelf surveys per year studying the food web and physical properties of the surface waters and water column from near shore to the shelf-slope break, which includes the location of the original Pioneer Array.\u00a0 Now that the Pioneer Array is moving south, we are excited to have the opportunity to continue this collaboration and build upon our understanding of the planktonic communities in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the initial deployment of the Coastal Pioneer Array at the Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB), this collaboration continues.\u00a0 Crockford is aboard the R\/V\u00a0<em>Neil Armstrong<\/em>\u00a0and using an IFCB to collect data as part of the project\u2019s\u00a0<strong><a class=\"tab-enabled external\" title=\"Link opens in a new tab or window... \" href=\"https:\/\/ifcb-data.whoi.edu\/NESLTER_broadscale\" aria-label=\"Go to link... broadscale study region\"><span class=\"tab-enabled__content\">broadscale study region<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(ongoing since 2013) while the ship transits to and from the new deployment site off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC.<\/p>\n<p>When the ship and team arrive at Pioneer\u2019s new location, she will be lending her expertise to the deployment team for it is the first time a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oceanobservatories.org\/2024\/01\/instrumentation-updates-for-the-planned-pioneer-array-relocation\/\">Plankton Imaging System<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(PLIMS) is being deployed on one of Pioneer\u2019s Central Surface Moorings.\u00a0 This new deployment is an outcome of community input during an NSF and Ocean Observatories Initiative Facility Board\u00a0<strong><a class=\"tab-enabled external\" title=\"Link opens in a new tab or window... \" href=\"https:\/\/ooifb.org\/activities\/pioneer-array-relocation\/\" aria-label=\"Go to link... sponsored workshop\"><span class=\"tab-enabled__content\">sponsored workshop<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative (NSF-OOI) and the Northeast U.S. Shelf (NES) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project have been collaborating since 2017, when the original OOI Coastal Pioneer Array was deployed 75 nautical miles off the coast of Martha\u2019s Vineyard.\u00a0 Representatives from the\u00a0NES-LTER project\u00a0would join the Pioneer Deployment and Recovery expeditions in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":535299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[258,19],"tags":[280,46,281],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535318,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535297\/revisions\/535318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}