Opendata, web and dolomites

DUSTCO SIGNED

Effects of atmospheric DUST deposition on COccolithophore production

Total Cost €

0

EC-Contrib. €

0

Partnership

0

Views

0

 DUSTCO project word cloud

Explore the words cloud of the DUSTCO project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "DUSTCO" about.

continent    inorganic    huge    fertilization    opportunity    samples    act    food    oligotrophic    perspectives    biological    saharan    ca    ratios    marine    populations    supplier    culturing    co    caribbean    12    atlantic    context    oceanic    carbonate    sediment    sr    primary    nutrient    correlation    atmospheric    excellent    organic    fe    pumps    lying    pump    complemented    coccolith    waters    photosynthetic    amounts    collected    nitrogen    species    recorded    composition    phytoplankton    underneath    equatorial    entire    chain    calcifying    cruise    dust    layer    linked    calibration    blown    north    photic    opportunistic    sampling    dustco    ongoing    transatlantic    exploring    cell    nutrients    coccolithophores    producers    input    situ    seawater    implications    array    interesting    provides    plume    taxa    africa    contribution    african    fixation    nw    trap    ordm    originating    fertilizer    deposition    indicators    events    multidisciplinary    thought    region    limited    coccolithophore    carbon    remaining    offers    function    amongst    ocean   

Project "DUSTCO" data sheet

The following table provides information about the project.

Coordinator
FCIENCIAS.ID - ASSOCIACAO PARA A INVESTIGACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO DE CIENCIAS 

Organization address
address: CAMPO GRANDE, EDIFICIO C1, PISO 3
city: LISBON
postcode: 1749 016
website: http://www.fciencias-id.pt

contact info
title: n.a.
name: n.a.
surname: n.a.
function: n.a.
email: n.a.
telephone: n.a.
fax: n.a.

 Coordinator Country Portugal [PT]
 Total cost 148˙635 €
 EC max contribution 148˙635 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
 Code Call H2020-MSCA-IF-2017
 Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-EF-ST
 Starting year 2018
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2018-03-01   to  2020-02-29

 Partnership

Take a look of project's partnership.

# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    FCIENCIAS.ID - ASSOCIACAO PARA A INVESTIGACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO DE CIENCIAS PT (LISBON) coordinator 148˙635.00

Map

Leaflet | Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA, Imagery © Mapbox

 Project objective

The deposition of atmospheric dust is thought to provide nutrients that are essential for phytoplankton growth in large areas of the ocean, with implications for primary production and remaining oceanic food chain, as well as for the ocean's biological carbon pump. Amongst the main primary producers in open-ocean oligotrophic waters are the coccolithophores. By also including more opportunistic taxa that quickly respond to short-term changes linked to nutrient input, and by being both photosynthetic and calcifying, coccolithophores provide interesting perspectives as indicators of ocean fertilization by dust, and its contribution to the organic and inorganic oceanic carbon pumps. Given the huge amounts of Saharan-dust blown into and over the equatorial North Atlantic, a region where nitrogen fixation is co-limited by Fe and P, it is only likely to expect that dust will act as nutrient supplier for marine phytoplankton. Here, I propose to investigate the effects of Saharan dust deposition on the cell production, species composition, carbonate production and coccolith-Sr/Ca ratios on coccolithophore populations across the equatorial North Atlantic. The study will be based on seawater samples covering the entire photic layer and sediment trap samples collected between NW Africa and the Caribbean, complemented by a coccolithophore culturing exploring the response of key coccolithophore species to dust input. As the transatlantic array was lying directly underneath the largest dust plume originating from the African continent (12º N), and two events of dust deposition were clearly recorded during the sampling cruise, DUSTCO provides a unique in situ opportunity to investigate the potential of Saharan dust as a fertilizer. Ongoing multidisciplinary research in the region, offers an excellent context for this study. The obtained findings will be used to develop a dust-related coccolithophore-based correlation/calibration function.

Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "DUSTCO" project.

For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.

Send me an  email (fabio@fabiodisconzi.com) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.

Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.

The information about "DUSTCO" are provided by the European Opendata Portal: CORDIS opendata.

More projects from the same programme (H2020-EU.1.3.2.)

ToMComputations (2019)

How other minds are represented in the human brain: Neural computations underlying Theory of Mind

Read More  

TheaTheor (2018)

Theorizing the Production of 'Comedia Nueva': The Process of Play Configuration in Spanish Golden Age Theater

Read More  

RealFlex (2019)

Real-time simulator-driver design and manufacturing based on flexible systems

Read More