FUNDING 

CHASE is a multidisciplinary project funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation (project CEECIND/00752/2018FCT), hosted by the Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE-UL), Aquatic Research Network (ARNET), and Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. The research is being conducted in close collaboration with researchers from the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML, UK), the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ, NL), the University of East Anglia (UEA, UK), and the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG, Brazil).

RELATED PROJECTS

PRIMary-productivity in Upwelling Systems (PRIMUS)

International multidisciplinary project funded by ESA aimed at advance our existing understanding on the link between net primary production (NPP) and wind-forced upwelling in Atlantic Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (EBUS), through combining Earth Observation (EO) data obtained from satellite remote sensing, with upwelling and climate indices, data collected in-situ, and ocean circulation modelling. PRIMUS Earth Science Cases is aims at comparing sediment trap data in the Canary Current EBUS off NW Africa using standard and Lagrangian approaches to primary production (led by Catarina V. Guerreiro).

monitoring of Saharan Dust accross the tropical Atlantic

Since 2012, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) has been tracing dust originating from the Sahara desert across the whole North-Atlantic Ocean using a moored equipment with a dust-collecting buoy at the surface and sediment traps in the ocean below it. For more information, click here.

Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT)

All the plankton and hydrological in situ data, as well as the daily atmospheric dust samples from across the Atlantic Ocean were collected in the framework of the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT). AMT is a multidisciplinary programme funded by the NERC's National Capability and hosted by PML, focused on producing a unique time-series (1995 - 2019) of biological, chemical and oceanographic observations of the entire Atlantic Ocean, to validate models addressing questions related to the climate change and the global carbon cycle. 

Portuguese Polar Program (PROPOLAR)

Seawater sampling for the study of coccolithophores thriving offshore and around the Northern Antarctic Peninsula were collected in the framework of the PROPOLAR projects PHYTO-NAP (Phytoplankton response to climate trends in the Northern Antarctic Peninsula) and FACT (Links between phytoplankton dynamics and climate Forcing in the NW Antarctica). The sampling was conducted in the context of a collaboration with researchers of the Brazilian High Latitudes Oceanography Group (GOAL), leading the projects INTERBIOTA and ECOPELAGOS at FURG.

Portugal Twinning for Innovation and Excellence in Marine Science and Earth Observation (PORTWIMS)

PORTWIMS is a EU-project leaded by MARE-FCiências.ID, responsible for young Portuguese researchers of MARE-UL to participate on AMT28 and AMT29 expeditions, during which most of material available for CHASE have been collected. PORTWIMS aims at enhancing the science, technology and innovation profile of marine science and Earth observation at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (FC.ID), as well as of individual staff members, through twinning with two research-intensive, internationally-leading institutes: PML in the UK and the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Germany.

Climate Change initiative (CCI-ESA)

An important part of CHASE will rely on atmospheric, hydrological and biological parameters obtained from satellite remote sensing, not only to provide a term of comparison, but also a spatiotemporal framework to interpret our in situ observations. The impressive database made available by the Climate Chance Initiative (CCI-ESA) will contribute to this purpose. The CCI was created by the European Space Agency (ESA) with the aim of realising the full potential of the long-term global Earth Observation archives that ESA and its Member states have built over the last 30 years, to fulfil the need for reliable and long-term ocean and climate data on the face of climate change.