Status Report 2012: SITE SUMMARY
If you have not already seen the ICES Zooplankton Status Report, please take a moment to look at it and especially look at a handful of the individual site summaries. You can find the last report online here. You will quickly see that there is a broad range in the length and comprehensiveness of the text and also in the number of variables included and/or discussed in the various site summaries.
The suggested writing topics and content items below are divided into "standard figures independent" and "standard figures "dependent". The independent items can still be written even if your standard figures are not ready or not 100% finalized.
Standard Figure *INDEPENDENT* Topics:
- Who is the main contact person for this site (and their email). Who are the associated investigators and institutions and programs.
- What is the history of your sampling program? [ Insitute-X has been monitoring water quality since 1972, expanded to include phytplankton species in 1995 and additional microbial plankton in 2003. ]
- What are the general sampling frequency and methods and gear used? [ Diatoms are sampled weekly at three depths using 30 L bottles. Diatom taxa are identified to species. Other taxa are identified to general groups. Staining techniques were used to determine ...]
- Are there any general trends (published or unpublished) in the region? [ HAB events have been increasing since 2007 (Smith et al. 2010). Temperatures have been increasing and salinity is decreasing. ]
Standard Figure *DEPENDENT* Topics:
- The standard figures sets can be used to summarize seasonal patterns, interannual variability, and long-term trends within your site data. General statements like "diatom abundance is greatest in May (fig 1)", "Dinoflagellate abundance has been increasing since 2003 (fig 2)... corresponding to a decrease in nitrate and silicate (fig 3)."
- Each site will be provided with a standard 100 year SST time series based on data from their general region. In many sites, water temperatures are the highest seen in the last 100 years. This does not necessarily represent conditions are your immediate site, but it may indirectly affect it through precipitation or wind speeds.
- Additional information will be provided here shortly.
Additional Questions? Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.