Building Capacity and Linking Infrastructure in the Lake and Coral Reef Scientific Communities

7-9 March 2005 Scripps Institution of Oceanography - San Diego, California USA

Group 1 - Physical-Biological Coupling

Group 1:

To address interactions of physical-biological coupling

What variables would we measure?

1. Directly measure biological parameter – i.e. type of alge – different chlorophyll pigments – fluorometre probes
2. Turbidity, suspended sediments
3. Temperature/dissolved oxygen
4. Meteorological data
5. Light – PAR, UV
6. Salinity
7. Conductivity
8. Auxilary data – nutrient concentrations – standardisation of analytical methods

Appropriate Temporal Scale - use the HIGHEST resolution possible – then decide how to present data

Appropriate Spatial Scales – difficult issue…. How many sites on one lake can we monitor…?

One answer may be to use remote sensing – information on chlorophyll distribution in lake – modeling – bathemetry…

- otherwise a preliminary detailed study on the horizontal variability… takes time….