CHELSEA TECHNOLOGIES GROUP LTD
Australian scientists use the CTG FastOcean System to monitor coastal health
Australian scientists monitor coastal health with FastOcean
Dr David Suggett and his team at the University of Technology, Sydney have been using a CTG FastOcean to monitor coastal health along the East coast of Australia. “Primary productivity of the coastal ocean directly influences drawdown of atmospheric CO2 and fuels fisheries,” said Dr Suggett. “Conditions that regulate primary productivity are highly variable along the east coast and we have been using the FastOcean to better understand the control of nutrient availability on carbon fixation in waters off of the coast of Sydney; we have been adopting novel incubation approaches to better predict CO2 uptake capacity from FastOcean determined ‘electron transport rates’ within these waters. These data will feed into predictive models of environmental regulation of CO2 fluxes.”
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“My group has recently purchased a FastOcean after a decade of work with previous single wavelength versions (FastTracka I and II, and other commercially available and custom built active fluorometers), but this instrument is the best yet: The FastOcean represents state-of-the-art “evolution” of both the underlying technology and concepts of Fast Repetition Rate fluorometry, developed by an expert in fluorometry (Dr Kevin Oxborough) alongside the academic community; the result is an incredibly versatile tool that meets my continually interchanging needs between routine field deployments examining marine primary productivity to highly specific studies of physiological processes in the lab. The great ethos that Chelsea places on continually engaging with their user community ensures that FRRf-based approaches are really pushing back the limits of how we understand marine primary productivity.”Associate Professor David Suggett, Associate Professor Climate Change Cluster, University of Technology, Sydney