LW-ITA joins the O.S.D.

The 21st of June 2014 LifeWatch-ITA to the Ocean Sampling Day (OSD). The chosen sampling site was Naples’ one (identified as OSD4), the long term station of MareChiara, LTER-MC located 2 miles away from Naples, about 75m depth.
In this occasion, it was sample superficial waters, hydrology, organic and inorganic nutrients, POC, spectro-fluometric analysis of the phytoplankton biomass, phytoplankton pigment spectrum, primary production, photosynthetic performance (14C and variable fluorescence), specific composition of phytoplankton and zooplankton.

Outcomes of the Crete Technical Meeting

A LifeWatch marine technical meeting was held in the Hellenic Centre of Marine Research (Crete, Greece) from 3โ€“5 June. The meeting was attended by participants of national LifeWatch projects from Spain, Italy, Greece, Sweden, Belgium and the EU funded projects BIOVEL, MicroB3, VIBRANT and EMODNet.