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Video Plankton Recorder (VPR) on R/V Merian off the Coast of Namibia

Video Plankton Recorder (VPR) on R/V Merian off the Coast of Namibia
Video Plankton Recorder (VPR) on R/V Merian off the Coast of Namibia
Video Plankton Recorder (VPR) on R/V Merian off the Coast of Namibia
Video Plankton Recorder (VPR) on R/V Merian off the Coast of Namibia
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(20°56′18″S, 11°24′29″E)
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Davis, Cabell S.
Video Plankton Recorder (VPR) on R/V Merian off the Coast of Namibia
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10/19/2011
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This was a Chris German cruise on the R/V Merian off the Coast of Namibia. They were doing VPR deployments.
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The video plankton recorder, shown on deck at right, resembles a small airplane. In fact, it does flyin the water. In August 2011, the German research vessel Maria S. Merian towed the recorder near the coast of Namibia, Africa. As the instrument "flew" through the water, it captured real-time video of microscopic plankton living in the Benguela upwelling system, one of the most plankton-rich areas of the oceans. WHOI biologists Cabell Davis and Scott Gallager developed the recorder in 1991. Since then, Davis said that it has been modified and upgraded many times and continues to be used worldwide to measure a wide range of marine plankton and particles.
Photo by Cabell S. Davis
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