Research News
Chlorophyll data published for rosette casts on NES-LTER Transect cruises since 2017
NES-LTER is pleased to announce our first data publication in collaboration with the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI): Sosik, H.M., T. Rynearson, S. Menden-Deuer, and OOI CGSN Data Team. 2021. Size-fractionated chlorophyll from water column bottle samples collected during NES-LTER Transect cruises, ongoing since 2017. ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/798bda0e9ddfeba20f2266e64cf4dd40 (Accessed YYYY-MM-DD) This data package…
Read MoreNew article on seasonal variability in the planktonic food web of the Northeast U.S. Shelf
NES-LTER postdoctoral researcher Pierre Marrec and others in PI Susanne Menden-Deuer’s lab just published a new article: “Seasonal variability in planktonic food web structure and function of the Northeast U.S. Shelf” in Limnology and Oceanography (https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11696). Marrec et al., 2021, https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11696
Read MoreNew article, model, and data published for eukaryote picophytoplankton at MVCO
Graduate student Bethany Fowler and co-authors at WHOI just published a new article in PNAS: Dynamics and functional diversity of the smallest phytoplankton on the Northeast US Shelf. They found that picoeukaryotes contribute more to the region’s primary productivity than would be inferred from their abundance alone. In addition to the journal article, the model…
Read MoreNew article on community composition and realized thermal niches of diatoms
NES-LTER PI Tatiana Rynearson, Sarah A. Flickinger, and graduate student Diana Fontaine just published a new article: “Metabarcoding Reveals Temporal Patterns of Community Composition and Realized Thermal Niches of Thalassiosira Spp. (Bacillariophyceae) from the Narragansett Bay Long-Term Plankton Time Series” (https://doi.org/10.3390/biology9010019).
Read MorePelagic fish data packages available online at EDI!
This fall Jaxine Wolfe joined us as an Information Systems Assistant to help publish NES-LTER data to the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) repository. Her first two data packages are now available online, both prepared to accompany WHOI graduate student Justin Suca’s recent journal article. The data packages, for pelagic fish diet composition and stable isotopes,…
Read MoreILTER – The International Long-Term Ecological Research Network as a Platform for Global Coastal and Ocean Observation
Article in Frontiers in Marine Science, published 28 August 2019, with co-authors Heidi Sosik and Stace Beaulieu: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00527
Read MoreA second successful Winter Transect cruise!
The NES-LTER Team just returned from the second successful Winter Transect cruise! The top photo shows PI Joel Llopiz happily displaying a sand lance, one of our target species of forage fish. Check the Twitter hashtag #NESLTER for another photo of Joel with an impressive sample resulting from towing a plankton net near the shelf…
Read MoreBeyond Chlorophyll Fluorescence: The Time is Right to Expand Biological Measurements in Ocean Observing Programs
Article in L&O Bulletin published 31 May 2018,
Read MoreFeeding dynamics of Northwest Atlantic small pelagic fishes
“Feeding dynamics of Northwest Atlantic small pelagic fishes,” a paper by Justin Suca and colleagues, reveals strong seasonal differences in the diets of of five dominant small pelagic species
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