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OTZ Sensing Cube

OTZ Sensing Cube
OTZ Sensing Cube
OTZ Sensing Cube
OTZ Sensing Cube
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Renier, Natalie
OTZ Sensing Cube
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01/01/2022
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Caption from The Ocean Twilight Zone's Role in Climate Change report, Pg. 30:
Ocean Twilight Zone Observation Network
The Ocean Twilight Zone Observation Network, currently under development, will provide scientists with a comprehensive view of how carbon moves through the twi- light zone. The network, which has been designed by a team based at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will eventually cover a region of about 250,000 square ki- lometers (roughly 155,300 square miles) of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. It is made up of sonar moorings, highly sensitive fish-tracking tags, and mobile submersible sensor systems, including a fleet of new MINION (MINiature IsOpycNal) floats. MINIONs, which are camera-laden devices that help to record the quantity and type of marine snow particles falling through the twilight zone, will help tease out the biological car- bon pump’s role in the global carbon cycle.
Together, this collection of instruments will give researchers around-the-clock data from the twilight zone over months or even years. Information collected using the Observation Network will help to improve estimates of the amount of carbon that moves through the twilight zone and could reveal how biological organisms affect that movement through their interactions and daily migrations to the surface. In the pro- cess, the network will help scientists understand how twilight zone organisms affect global climate—and provide unprecedented insight into a little-known, yet vitally im- portant region of the ocean.
Illustration by Natalie Renier, WHOI Creative
Copyright © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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