How do you monitor ocean processes and ecosystems over a long time period?
📢 Introducing the Western Core Box (or WCB for short!)
WCB is a @bas.ac.uk program of observations about ocean processes and marine ecosystems near to South Georgia.
📢 Introducing the Western Core Box (or WCB for short!)
WCB is a @bas.ac.uk program of observations about ocean processes and marine ecosystems near to South Georgia.
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⚓️ Collecting and redeploying scientific moorings
🔊 Acoustic surveys for animals in the water beneath the ship
🦐 Using nets to collect samples of zooplankton, including Antarctic krill
🐋 Surveying for predators in the marine ecosystem
💧 Collecting data on water properties
📷 Scientists collect zooplankton samples from a net
Western Core Box forms part of @bas.ac.uk Polar Ocean Ecosystem Time Series.
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