SACC CONSORTIUM SITE

GOAL:
To establish the basis for the development of a research program focused on the physics, biology and geochemistry of the cross-shelf exchanges between the South Atlantic and the eastern shelf of South America.

The workshop will be held at the Rafain Hotel, Foz de Iguacu, Brazil, 13-15 August 2010, back to back with the AGU Meeting of the Ameircas.
Contact:
Ricardo Matano rmatano-at-coas.oregonstate.edu
Alberto Piola apiola-at-hidro.gov.ar

Efforts are being conducted to recover historical data stored in obsolete media. Marcela Charo from Servicio de Hidrografía Naval, Argentina, is seen here classifying old 5.25 inch diskettes, where raw ocean profiler (CTD) data were stored in the 1980´s.

Scaling the effects of climate change on marine zooplankton a short course being held at USP - Ubatuba

Impacts of changes in the environment on the artisanal fisheries of the Patos Lagoon were discussed during a Workshop held at FURG

An article by Alejandro Bianchi and co-authors published in Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans) reports on the annual sea-air CO2 balance based on data from 22 cruises.

UPDATED FEB 2010
Juan Ugaz obtained his doctoral degree at Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil, studying zooplankton concentrations in subsurface chlorophyll maximum layers off southeastern Brazil.

UPDATED SEP2009
Surface drifters provide the best direct observations of the surface circulation on a global scale. Uriel Zajaczkovski used drifters to estimate horizontal diffusivities in the South Atlantic, and their relation to the general circulation. Uriel is currently a graduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

UPDATED AUG 2009
Jose Luiz Azevedo completed his doctoral degree at FURG, Brazil under the advise of M. Mata (FURG) and D. Nof (FSU, USA). Ze Luiz holds a teaching position at FURG.

R/V Roger Revelle is conducting a purposeful tracer experiment in the SE Pacific as part of the DIMES project. For more information follow: http://dimes.ucsd.edu/

R/V Capitan Canepa from Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo Pesquero has completed a survey of the Valdes Front. The Valdes front, the interface between well mixed coastal waters and stratified mid-shelf waters, is a productive hotspot in the northern Patagonia summers.

R/V Roger Revelle is sailing in good weather conditions on the Patagonia shelf searching for coccolitophores. Silvia Romero (SHN/UBA/AR) and Daniel Valla (undergraduate student UBA/AR, photo) are participating in the expedition.

Hermes Mianzan and Marcelo Acha (INIDEP) visited the Dauphin Island Sea Lab to conduct a survey of jelly fish in collaboration with William Graham. Increased jelly fish abundance, reported in several marine ecosystems is though to be a consequence of overfishing.

Osmar Moller reports from Rio Grande