ALL-ATLANTIC OCEAN RESEARCH ALLIANCE

Creating an Atlantic Ocean Community by Implementing the Galway and Belém Statements

First Underwater Vision Profiler user meeting

This meeting took place at the Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France and online, on the 15th and 16th September 2022.
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Recorded presentations and discussions

DAY 1

1. Sofia Cordeiro, Florence Coroner, Rainer Kiko - AANCHOR - AA-MARI.Net - I/ITAPINA
2. - Reece James - University of Hawaii, USA - Using the UVP to characterise particle diversity and flux in the North Pacific
3. LOV, France - Marc Picheral - LOV/PIQv operational services available to the UVP user community
4. LOV, France - Camille Catalano: UVP development activities at LOV
5. Mingliang Zhu - Jiaozhou Bay Marine Ecosystem Research Station, China: Particle distribution in deep dark sea based on UVPs in the southern North China Sea
6. Margaux Noyon - Nelson Mandela University, South Africa: UVPs South Africa
7. France, LOV - Rainer Kiko - MOPGA-TAD midterm: Tropical Atlantic Deoxygenation: gateway dynamics, feedback mechanisms and ecosystem impacts
8. France, LOV - Alberto Baudena - MOPGA-TAD midterm: 5 months in the lifetime of an eddy observed with a UVP6 on an ARGO float
9. France, LOV - Hervé Claustre - Understanding the biological carbon pump with floats: the REFINE project
10. France, LOV - Thelma Panaïotis - Fine-scale plankton distribution across the Ligurian Front from glider and UVP6
11. France, LOV - Lionel Guidi - APERO Assessing marine biogenic matter Production, Export and Remineralisation
12. General discussion at the end of the morning session
13. U. of Vermont, USA - Jason Stockwell - Mysis, diel vertical migration, and the UVP6
14. GEOMAR, Germany - Helena Hauss - In situ comparison of UVP5, UVP6-HF and UVP6-LH
15. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA - Elena Ceballos - Use of UVPs at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
16. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA- Clarissa Karthäuser - Linking particle properties with biogeochemistry through imaging
17. U. Maine, USA - Lee Karp Boss - NAAMES and GO-Ship
18. U. South Carolina, USA - Alexander Barth - UVP5 in the Sargasso Sea
19. National Oceanographic Center, Southampton, UK - Marika Takeuchi - Measurements of marine snow using optical systems
20. Short discussion to fill in technical problems
21. Memorial University Newfoundland, Canada - Maxime Geoffroy - Linking hydroacoustics with UVP imagery to study the Arctic pelagic ecosystem
22. U. of Alaska, USA - Stephanie O’Daly - UVP work at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
23. UC Santa Barbara, USA - David Siegel - Update on the EXPORTS field campaign focusing on very preliminary UVP observations
23. General discussion at the end of day 1

DAY 2

1. Jerome Coindat (Hydroptic) - Industrialisation and commercialisation of oceanographic research equipment
2. Florian Ricour (LOV) - UVP6 embedded classification
3. Emilia Trudnoswska (IOPAN, Poland) - Morphological traits are valuable vectors of ecological knnowledge
4. Martin Schröder (Kiel University, Germany) - MorphoCluster: Efficient labelling of plankton images by clustering
5. Lars Schmarje (Kiel University, Germany, online) - A data-centric approach for improving ambigous labels
6. General discussion on image classification
7. Lars Stemmann (LOV) - Global observation of large plankton and particles with images
8. Shreya Mehta (Physical Research Laboratory, India, online) - Trichodesmium distribution: a study based on a large UVP-dataset
9. Rainer Kiko (GEOMAR/LOV) - A global marine particle size distribution dataset obtained with the UVP5
10. Kelsey Bisson (Oregon State University, USA, online) - Sampling uncertainties of particle size distributions and derived fluxes
11. Anna Denvil-Sommer (U. of East Anglia, UK, online ) - Machine learning & observations to improve PlankTOM organic sinking processes
12. Daniel Clements (UCLA, USA, online) - Reconstructing the global particle size distribution from UVP5 observations
13. Mathilde Dugenne (LOV) - Developing a Pelagic Size Structure database & general data collection discussion
14. Jean-Olivier Irisson - EcoTaxa's application programming interface
15. Alexander Barth - EcotaxaTools & General Discussion processing tools
16. General discussion friday afternoon