Expanding Tara Oceans Protocols for Underway, Ecosystemic Sampling of the Ocean-Atmosphere Interface During Tara Pacific Expedition (2016–2018)
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere occur at the air-sea interface through the transfer of momentum, heat, gases and particulate matter and through the impact of the upper-ocean biology on the composition and radiative properties of this boundary layer. The Tara Pacific expedition, launched in May 2016 aboard the schooner Tara, was a 29-month exploration with the dual goals to study the ecology of coral systems along ecological gradients in the Pacific Ocean and to assess inter-island and open ocean surface plankton and neuston community structures. In addition, key atmospheric properties were measured to study links between the two boundary layer properties. A major challenge for the open ocean sampling was the lack of ship-time available for work at “stations”. This required development of underway sampling approaches to optimize physical, chemical, optical and genomic methods to capture the entire community structure of the surface layers, from viruses 81 through metazoans in their oceanographic and atmospheric physicochemical context. An international scientific consortium was put together to analyze the samples, generate data, and develop datasets in coherence with the existing Tara Oceans database. Beyond adapting the extensive Tara Oceans sampling protocols for high-resolution underway sampling, the key novelties compared to Tara Oceans’ global assessment of plankton include the measurement of (i) surface plankton and neuston biogeography and functional diversity; (ii) bioactive trace metals distribution at the ocean surface and metal-dependent ecosystem structures; (iii) marine aerosols, including biological entities, (iv) geography, nature and colonization of microplastic, and (iv) high-resolution underway assessment of net community production via equilibrator inlet mass spectrometry. We are committed to sharing the data collected during this expedition, making it an important resource to address a variety of scientific questions.nnkton-taxonomy/assemblage/genomics
Source: Frontiers in Marine Science
Authors: Gabriel Gorsky, Guillaume Bourdin, Fabien Lombard, Maria Luiza Pedrotti, Samuel Audrain, Nicolas Bin, Emmanuel Boss, Chris Bowler, Nicolas Cassar, Loic Caudan, Genevieve Chabot, Natalie R. Cohen, Daniel Cron, Colomban De Vargas, John R. Dolan, Eric Douville, Amanda Elineau, J. Michel Flores, Jean Francois Ghiglione, Nils Haëntjens, Martin Hertau, Seth G. John, Rachel L. Kelly, Ilan Koren, Yajuan Lin, Dominique Marie, Clémentine Moulin, Yohann Moucherie, Stéphane Pesant, Marc Picheral, Julie Poulain, Mireille Pujo-Pay, Gilles Reverdin, Sarah Romac, Mathew B. Sullivan, Miri Trainic, Marc Tressol, Romain Troublé, Assaf Vardi, Christian R. Voolstra, Patrick Wincker, Sylvain Agostini, Bernard Banaigs, Emilie Boissin, Didier Forcioli, Paola Furla, Pierre E. Galand, Eric Gilson, Stéphanie Reynaud, Shinichi Sunagawa, Olivier P. Thomas, Rebecca Lisette Vega Thurber, Didier Zoccola, Serge Planes, Denis Allemand, Eric Karsenti
Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, University of Maine, Fondation Tara Océan, Inserm, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure, Ifremer, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Duke University, Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Mercator Ocean (France), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Adaptation et Diversité en Milieu Marin, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Paris-Saclay - Etablissement de Saclay, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA Paris-Saclay, Weizmann Institute of Science, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne, University of Southern California, University of Bremen, Génomique Métabolique du Genoscope, Genoscope, Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques, The Ohio State University, Laboratoire d'Aérologie, University of Konstanz, CEA Cadarache, University of Tsukuba, Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Université de Perpignan, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Labex Corail, Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l'Environnement, Université Côte d'Azur, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Institut de Recherche sur le Cancer et le Vieillissement de Nice, Laboratoire d'Ecogéochimie des Environnements Benthiques, Scientific Centre of Monaco, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, ETH Zurich, Institute of Microbiology, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway, Oregon State University, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Language: English
Subfield: Oceanography
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life below water
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,490
Funders: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ocean Foundation, Justus Liebig Universität Gießen, University of Derby, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Weizmann Institute of Science, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Universitaire de France, Université Paris-Saclay, Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Université de Recherche Paris Sciences et Lettres, Universität Konstanz, Sorbonne Université, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Awards: THE ACTIVITY PROPOSED HERE CONSISTS OF 1. CREATING A CONSORTIUM OF PRACTITIONERS INTERESTED IN STANDARDIZING COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF HIGH HORIZO, Organisation et montée en puissance d'une Infrastructure Nationale de Génomique, THE TARA OCEAN EXPEDITION HAS COLLECTED DATA DEFINING THE UPPER OCEAN ECOSYSTEM, BIOGEOCHEMISTRY, OPTICAL PROPERTIES, AND OCEAN COLOR FROM SEP. 2009, LabexMER Marine Excellence Research: a changing ocean, Genomic complexity of the coral holobiont across the Pacific, CENTRE NATIONAL DE RESSOURCES BIOLOGIQUES MARINES
OpenAlex ID: W2991289367