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SOLACE voyage successfully completed!
R/V Investigator back in Hobart on 16th January 2021
January 2021
On 4th December 2020, RSSRG’s Research Scientist Charlotte Robinson embarked on the CSIRO research vessel Investigator for the 6-week SOLACE research voyage in the Southern Ocean. SOLACE stands for “Southern Ocean Large Areal Carbon Export”. This project is led by ARC Laureate Fellow Pr. Philip Boyd from University of Tasmania. A reduced contingent was onboard because of the Covid19 situation, yet the voyage could fulfill most of the initial objectives, including the full suite of optical measurements that RSSRG was in charge of.
The general aim of the voyage is to develop an approach to quantify the changing effectiveness of CO2 sequestration by the biological pump that can be implemented using remote-sensing of the ocean surface by satellites and it’s interior by autonomous vehicles (especially BGC-Argo autonomous profiling floats).