Current and Past Projects

• Layered Organization of the Coastal Ocean (LOCO), August 2005 and July 2006.
• Continuing ONR investigations in Small-Scale Planktonic Structure, Monterey Bay, California

• Spatial and Temporal Resolution of Cross-Shelf Transport using Bio-Optical Indices (2001 & 2003).
• Part of the Coastal Ocean Processes (CoOP), Coastal Ocean Advances in Shelf Transport (COAST) Study.

• Mesoscale and Finescale Mapping of Physical and Biological Fields in the Northern California Current System (2000 & 2002).
• Part of the U.S. GLOBEC, Northeast Pacific (NEP) Study.

• Interactions between Small-Scale Physical, Optical and Biological Processes (Summer 1998).
• Part of the "Thin Layers" Experiment, East Sound, Orcas Island, Washington.

• Mesoscale Physical and Biological Processes at the Antarctic Polar Front: SeaSoar observations of physical and bio-optical properties in and around the Polar Front, November 1997 and January 1998.
• Part of the U.S. JGOFS Antarctic Environment and Southern Ocean Process (AESOP) Study.

• Consequences of Persistent Small-Scale Biological Structure on Upper Ocean Trophic Processes (1997 & 1998).
• Investigations in Small-Scale Planktonic Structure off the central Oregon Coast.

The Bio-Optics site was created by, and is maintained by Christopher E. Wingard.
Questions, comments or criticisms? cwingard_at_coas_dot_oregonstate_dot_edu.
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