Research News
Pelagic 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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