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The ProjectScience Education through Earth Observation for High Schools

Tutorial 7: Images of Ocean colour in the coastal zone

Marieke Eleveld, Irene Kingma, Hans van der Woerd(VU-IVM)

Rainer Reuter, Christina Klose(UOL) Fabian Fock (Hermann-Lietz-Schule Spiekeroog)

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Objectives according to DoW

• to introduce the coastal waters

• to get insight in important functional aspectsby analysing ocean colour images

• basic aspects of ecosystems and nutrient loading, and why light and turbidity are important for the food web in our highly-productive European waters.

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Structure

• Our Scientific Background• SEOS Cases

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• Repeatedly evaluated as the best environmental research institute in the Netherlands

• 14 % core finance; 86 % projects (EU, NL Governmental Institutes, Netherlands Science Foundation, NGOs, Industry)

• Remote Sensing activities– Fundamental Biology (PP and Fluorescence PhD)– Radiation Transfer and Inversion (PhD)– Environmental Policy Support (HAB monitoring EEZ)– Data-model Integration (Silt and Dredging Port of Rotterdam)

VU- Institute for Environmental Studies

2nd EARSeL workshop on Education and Training, Chania, June 2009Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) 5Coastal CRC AGM 2002

Playground of Research

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Output

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Indicators: Cause-Effect Relationships

Drivers

Pressure

State

Impact

Response

Agriculture

Nitrogen run off to

Coastal areas

Eutrophication

Ecosystem changes

Habitat loss

Policy on the use

of fertilizer

RS products

Chlorophyll

SPM

CDOM

Kd

PP

Fluorescence

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HTMLPages

Ocean Colour

Geography

Ecology

Physics

Biology

Bachelors

New Media

Teacher expertise

EuropeanCurricula

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The Ocean Colour Module : Forces

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Cases

• Light and life: the role of light in water. Themes: Growth, attenuation, safety·

• Ecosystems: eutrophication • Health: harmful algae blooms and

quality of products such as fish and shellfish

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Intro

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Updated Index Page

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Biology: Light and LifePhytoplankton GrowthDid you know that most algae are so small that sometimes a million of these small plants grow in 1 litre of seawater!

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Aufgabe Biologie 2009

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Coastal Ecology

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Ecosystems

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EutrophicationCoastal Shelf Seas

Pressure: High N and P loadPressure: FisheriesPressure: Spatial Planning

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Algae: harmful blooms State: Phaeocystis dominance in SpringImpact: Benthic anoxia and annoyance

Commercial shellfish loss

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From Ocean to coast Connect to Module Marine Pollution

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Physics ?

Normalized reflection Spectra

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0

0.005

0.01

0.015

0.02

400 500 600 700 800

Wavelength (nm)

MER

IS R

rs

10987654321

CDOM+

CHL

SPM

CHL

SPM

SPMand ATM

Coriolis Forces

Spectra from the Earth

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Worksheets

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Game

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GIS functionalities and Earth Observation

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HTMLPages

Ocean Colour

Geography

Ecology

Physics

Biology

Bachelors

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Teacher expertise

Conclusions and Lessons Learned