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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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0.005
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
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Geography
Ecology
Physics
Biology
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Conclusions and Lessons Learned
