Maryland Sea Grant : Research, Outreach & Education: Research: Maryland Sea Grant Research Projects: Past Projects: R/P-24 - Phytoplankton Biomass and Nutrient Loading Relations for the Chesapeake Bay from Aircraft Remote Sensing

Phytoplankton Biomass and Nutrient Loading Relations for the Chesapeake Bay from Aircraft Remote Sensing The objective of this study is to deploy NASA's Ocean Data Acquisition System (ODAS) in the Chesapeake Bay during successive winter-spring transitions in 1990 and 1991 to produce fine-scale maps of phytoplankton biomass. ODAS is an aircraft borne ocean color instrument that is used to detect chlorophyll concentrations. We propose to track event-scale changes in phytoplankton distributions during the diatom blooms that develop annually in the mesohaline to polyhaline part of the Bay. Data from the Ocean Data Acquisition System (ODAS) is avaData from the Ocean Data Acquisition System (ODAS) is available by anonymous ftp at ftp://www.mdsg.umd.edu/Public/his_chl. More information about remote sensing is available at Chesapeake Bay Remote Sensing, part of the Bay Science Gateway.
Lawrence W. Harding, Jr. Horn Point Laboratory University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Maryland Sea Grant University System of Maryland Eric C. Itsweire Johns Hopkins University