Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0880078

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0880078

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Quantifying the role of salps in marine food webs and organic carbon export. Australia has recently committed significant resources to the observation and forecasting of ocean temperature and circulation that will vastly improve the understanding of environmental forcing of regional scale biological processes. This project will use ocean circulation hindcasts, ship-board measurements and laboratory studies to capture the dynamics of the zooplankton community, and in particular a fast-growing class of gelatinous zooplankton, the salps, in the waters off southeast Australia. During bloom events, salps can alter the functioning of marine ecosystems. This project will quantify the impact of salp blooms on fish resources and ocean uptake of carbon in southeast Australian waters.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2008

End Date: 30-06-2011

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $249,784.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biological Oceanography | Oceanography | Physical Oceanography

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Oceanic processes (excl. climate related) |

Other Keywords

Biological Oceanography | Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Oceanic processes (excl. climate related) | Oceanography | Physical Oceanography

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