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Illuminating Ocean Ecosystems

Science meeting celebrated career of CASIX director

21 Feb 2008

A one day scientific meeting was held to celebrate the research career of CASIX Director Prof. Jim Aiken. The meeting "Illuminating Ocean Ecosystems" focused on bio-optics of the ocean carbon cycle and was held in Plymouth on 19th February 2008.

Presentations

• Every oceanographer is a modeller and every modeller should go to sea (Carol Robinson, UEA)

• Aiken's laws of oceanography

• The L4 time series station (Roger Harris, PML)

• Does subsurface chlorophyll maximum represent a violation of Aiken's 2nd law of oceanography? (Patrick Holligan, University of Southampton)

• Thermal structure in the surface mixed layer: how mixed is mixed? (Ian Robinson, NOC)

• Mare Pictum - 20 years of collaborative bio-optical research to map the "coloured" sea (Vittorio Barale, Joint Research Centre of the EC)

• Submerged remote sensing approach