Keeping watch on a changing ocean
December 11th, 2009 by Ari Daniel Shapiro | Filed in Ocean Gazing Podcast
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Kate Larkin and Richard Lampitt (lower left) teamed up with a crew in 2007 to study the Porcupine Abyssal Plain in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. Credit: Kate Larkin.
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This time we’re headed to the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton in the UK, about 80 miles southwest of London. Kate Larkin and Richard Lampitt are both biogeochemists there.
Lampitt says, “Certainly there is a big development of enthusiasm for observing all parts of the global environment. And we’re very pleased to see that the ocean environment has not been missing out on that.”
Both Lampitt and Larkin are coordinating a massive European effort to look at, listen to, and touch the global oceans. Stay tuned to hear more.
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Photos
 Kate Larkin |
 Both Larkin and Lampitt do research in the lab and at sea. Credit: Richard Lampitt. |
 Richard Lampitt |
Web Resources
Link to full video heard in this podcast: “Keeping a watch on our changing oceans”
EuroSITES: European Ocean Observatory Network
Porcupine Abyssal Plain Observatory
Hear more:
Kate Larkin explaining how ocean physics impacted Norwegian and Icelandic fishermen
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Richard Lampitt describing a sudden shift in the life at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain in the Northeast Atlantic
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Tags: biogeochemistry, kate larkin, national oceanography centre, observatories, outreach, porcupine abyssal plain, richard lampitt, southampton, water column
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Ari, thank you again for a great story! And you really outdid yourself with the voice overs :-) I am hoping the sonic stumper means Santa is bringing my favorite podcast in a few weeks!!
You are most welcome! I’m in a play at the moment and asked a couple of my co-performers to help out with the voice overs. I’m glad you enjoyed them!