Seafarer citizen scientist ocean transparency data as a resource for phytoplankton and climate research

The oceans’ phytoplankton that underpin the marine food chain appear to be changing in abundance due to global climate change. Here, we compare the first four years of data from a citizen science ocean transparency study, conducted by seafarers using home-made Secchi Disks and a free Smartphone appl...

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Autores principales: Seafarers, Secchi Disk, Lavender, Samantha, Beaugrand, Gregory, Outram, Nicholas, Barlow, Nigel, Crotty, David, Evans, Jake, Kirby, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5718423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29211734
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186092
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author Seafarers, Secchi Disk
Lavender, Samantha
Beaugrand, Gregory
Outram, Nicholas
Barlow, Nigel
Crotty, David
Evans, Jake
Kirby, Richard
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description The oceans’ phytoplankton that underpin the marine food chain appear to be changing in abundance due to global climate change. Here, we compare the first four years of data from a citizen science ocean transparency study, conducted by seafarers using home-made Secchi Disks and a free Smartphone application called Secchi, with contemporaneous satellite ocean colour measurements. Our results show seafarers collect useful Secchi Disk measurements of ocean transparency that could help future assessments of climate-induced changes in the phytoplankton when used to extend historical Secchi Disk data.
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spelling pubmed-57184232017-12-15 Seafarer citizen scientist ocean transparency data as a resource for phytoplankton and climate research Seafarers, Secchi Disk Lavender, Samantha Beaugrand, Gregory Outram, Nicholas Barlow, Nigel Crotty, David Evans, Jake Kirby, Richard PLoS One Research Article The oceans’ phytoplankton that underpin the marine food chain appear to be changing in abundance due to global climate change. Here, we compare the first four years of data from a citizen science ocean transparency study, conducted by seafarers using home-made Secchi Disks and a free Smartphone application called Secchi, with contemporaneous satellite ocean colour measurements. Our results show seafarers collect useful Secchi Disk measurements of ocean transparency that could help future assessments of climate-induced changes in the phytoplankton when used to extend historical Secchi Disk data. Public Library of Science 2017-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5718423/ /pubmed/29211734 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186092 Text en © 2017 Seafarers et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Outram, Nicholas
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Evans, Jake
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Seafarer citizen scientist ocean transparency data as a resource for phytoplankton and climate research
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title_full_unstemmed Seafarer citizen scientist ocean transparency data as a resource for phytoplankton and climate research
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5718423/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186092
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