Assessing Particulate Organic Carbon
WET Labs worked with Dr. James Bishop of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Dr. Russ Davis of Scripps Oceanographic Institution to develop a special beam attenuation meter to detect Particulate Organic Carbon (POC).
Left: Todd Wood (LBNL) and Matt Fantle (UC Berkeley graduate student) deployed the SOLO float that's equipped with the LET Labs-Bishop-developed sensors from the R/V New Horizon in August 2001.
Below: Vertical profiling floats with sensors for measuring light transmission, fluorescence, and backscattering used to detect POC in the North Pacific (50N, 145W).
Data from Rudnick, D.L., and M.J. Perry, eds., 2003 ALPS: Autonomous and Lagrangian Platforms and Sensors, Workshop Report, 64 pp., www. go-prose.com/ALPS
Photo courtesy Roy Kaltschmidt, LBNL.