OB33A:
From the Twilight Zone to the Troposphere: Ocean Optics Applications to Biogeochemical Cycling in and Through the Surface Ocean I

Session ID#: 93132

Session Description:
Advances in remote sensing and in situ ocean optics technology have led to new interdisciplinary studies examining the connections between planktonic community structure and biogeochemical cycles, such as NAAMES, EXPORTS, and COMICS. Applications of hyperspectral reflectance, absorption,scattering, multichannel backscattering, and laser diffraction and particle imaging and sizing can yield in-depth information on phytoplankton and other particles in the water column, allowing for development of algorithms targeting next generation of Earth observing satellites (such as NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud and ocean Ecosystem mission - PACE). In this session we invite contributions from studies using ocean optics tools from shipboard, autonomous, airborne, or remote sensing platforms coupled with biogeochemical parameters to study connections between the surface ocean and the atmosphere or the surface ocean and the mesopelagic, including assessments of net community production, food web dynamics, export production and flux, ocean-to-atmosphere fluxes of aerosols and trace gases of biological origin.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AI - Air-Sea Interactions
  • IS - Ocean Observatories, Instrumentation and Sensing Technologies
  • PI - Physical-Biological Interactions
Index Terms:

4264 Ocean optics [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: CHEMICAL]
4817 Food webs, structure, and dynamics [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
Primary Chair:  Norman B Nelson, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Jason Graff, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Margaret L Estapa, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States and Ivona Cetinic, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, United States
Primary Liaison:  Norman B Nelson, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Moderators:  Norman B Nelson, Univ California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Margaret L Estapa, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Norman B Nelson, Univ California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

OB33A-01
What can polarized oceanographic lidar reveal about ocean particle assemblages? Insights from a mesoscale coccolithophore bloom. (651519)
Brian Collister, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Richard Carl Zimmerman, Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth, & Atmospheic Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States, Victoria J Hill, Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth, & Atmospheric Science, Norfolk, VA, United States, Charles I Sukenik, Old Dominion University, Physics, Norfolk, VA, United States and William M Balch, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States
OB33A-02
Multi-Year Seasonal Trends between Sea Ice, Chlorophyll Concentration, and Clean Marine Aerosol Optical Depth in the Bellingshausen Sea (648742)
Srishti Dasarathy1, Jayanta Kar2, Jason Lucas Tackett3, Sharon D Rodier2, Xiaomei Lu2, Mark Vaughan3, Travis Toth2, Charles R Trepte2 and Jeff Shovlowsky Bowman4, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Integrative Oceanography Division, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
OB33A-03
An Evaluation of Optically-Derived Estimates of Phytoplankton Productivity and Carbon Flux in the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans (654666)
James Fox1, Kimberly Halsey1, Michael Behrenfeld2, Jason Graff1, Nils Haëntjens3, Alison Chase3, Guillaume Bourdin4, Lee Karp-Boss4, Emmanuel Boss5 and Sasha Jane Kramer6, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (4)University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Orono, United States, (5)University of Maine, Orono, United States, (6)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States
OB33A-04
Diurnal Rhythms in Optical Observations from a Profiling Wirewalker to Estimate Productivity During EXPORTS (646070)
Melanie Feen, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States and Melissa Omand, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, United States
OB33A-05
Evaluating holotomography as a new way to measure the refractive index of phytoplankton (639711)
Carina Poulin and Xiaodong Zhang, University of Southern Mississippi, Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
OB33A-06
Modeling Phytoplankton Pigments on Global to Local Scales Using Hyperspectral Optics (644218)
Sasha Jane Kramer, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States and David Siegel, Univ of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States
OB33A-07
Production and respiration rates estimated from in situ diel measurements of O2/Ar and particle concentrations and in vitro measurements of 14C and 18O across a trophic gradient in the North Pacific (653740)
Fernanda Henderikx Freitas1, Paul Quay2 and Angelicque E White1, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
OB33A-08
Biogeochemically-contrasting phytoplankton populations of the Eastern and Western Subarctic Atlantic (647980)
Toby Westberry, Oregon State University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Corvallis, United States, Scott Doney, University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, United States and Michael Behrenfeld, Oregon State University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Corvallis, OR, United States
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