Ocean Optics 2004, Darling Marine Center, Walpole, Maine

PowerPoint Presentations

• Final Project: Radiative Transfer and Ocean Remote Sensing Inverting In-Water Reflectance (Eric Rehm)
• Final Project: Ocean Optics Chlorophyll and Backscattering (Eric Rehm)
• Measuring Backscattering with Wetlabs EcoVSF and AC-9 (Julia Uitz, Pauline Stephen, Wayne Slade, Eric Rehm)
• Variability of Chlorophyll Measurements (Mike Sauer and Eric Rehm)
• Estimating particle size distribution from particulate attenuation measurments (Julia Uitz and Eric Rehm)

Labwork

My First Ocean Cruise
R/V Ira C (Notice A-frame for lowering instruments)	Out in the Gulf of Maine
Classic oceanography: Sending down a Niskin (water) bottle	Emptying Niskin bottles into sample containers for later analysis in spectrophometer and fluorometer
Ocean Optics Instrument Package	Hyper-TSRB: Tethered Spectral Radiometer Buoy
Collin Roesler explaining instrumentation software	Our lab group (except for seasick Keleigh...)
Our captain Robbie	Eric watching Robbie on the winch while letting out instrument cable
AC9: Measuring spectral absorption and attenuaton	TSRB : Measuring what satellites see: light up/light down
Irradiance Lab
Tools for measuring light (irradiance)	Measuring irradiance vs. depth
Backscattering (b_b) Lab
EcoVSF (Volume Scattering Function) above and AC-9 below	Measuring EcoVSF dark current
Forward Scattering (b_f) Lab
LISST Laser In-Situ Scattering and Transmissometer	Measuring particle size distribution with LISST
Eric diluting a phytoplankton sample for the LISST
Fluorometry Lab
Sample Filtration	Centrifuge of chlorophyll extract
Fluorometer
AC-9 (Multi-spectral In-Situ Attenuation and Absorption Meter
AC-9 in a frame	Close-up of AC-9 flow tubes
Particle Size Distribution Lab
Coulter Particle Counter	Cultured Phytoplankton (3 species)
Eric counting 5-8 micron phytoplankton cells
Spectrophotometer Lab
Petri dishes with filtered chlorophyll on filter pads	Filter pad on spectrophotometer aperture
10 cm Sample Cuvette with chlorophyll extract in acetone	Spectrophotometer
Student Lab Presentations
Eric (U.W.) and Mike (Cal Poly) discussing Variability of Chlorophyll Measurements	Ben (Scripps) talking about absoprtion meter calibration
Darling Marine Center
Computer and Ocean Optics Labs	Dock
R/V Ira C (Research Vessel)
Class Lobster Bake
Cooking...	...Done...
..Lobsters!.
Maine Politics at July 4th Parade in nearby Round Pond, Maine
Kayaking in Maine
Curt Mobley on Damariscotta River	Fellow paddler on tour of Muscongus Bay