Monitoring the Heartbeat of the Ocean

Hosted by Gilbert White’s Field Studies Centre, Selborne

This event has been cancelled. See details below.

Date

Thursday 19 March 2020

Time

From 6:30pm until 8:30pm

Admission

£12

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This event has been cancelled.

It has been decided that the March & April Antarctic Talks at Gilbert White's will be postponed. This is for the safety of the speakers and audience during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The talks new dates will be confirmed shortly. The status of the May talk will be reviewed as the situation develops.

A talk by Marianne Wootion on the work of the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey

Marianne is Senior Analyst at the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey, based in Plymouth, and Training Coordinator for the Global Alliance of CPR Surveys. The CPR Survey is the longest running, and most geographically expansive marine biological survey in the world. Marianne is co-author of a plankton guide to the North Atlantic.

Plankton play a key role in the oceanic food web, and may be a key indicator of changes in the ecosystem. Since 1957, the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) has been towed over 6.5 million nautical miles in the North Atlantic and adjacent seas. The primary purpose of the CPR has been to record pelagic plankton, which it is has been doing so since 1931. Studies indicate a significant increase in microplastics from 1960–70 to 1980–1990.