{"id":602,"date":"2022-05-31T12:30:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpstaging.whoi.edu\/site\/oceaniron\/?page_id=602"},"modified":"2025-01-29T09:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:49:26","slug":"core-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cpr-beams\/research-monitoring\/core-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Core Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\tCore Monitoring\n\t<\/h1>\n\t<p>The project aims to sustain the U.S. contribution to the North Atlantic Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey, specifically the CPR Z route (including Z-, ZB, and ZC tows). This route has been funded by the NSF for 17 years due to its significance in:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Traversing the North Atlantic subpolar gyre, a highly productive and climate-sensitive area crucial for fisheries and carbon sequestration.<\/li>\n<li>Crossing the habitat of keystone zooplankton species <em>Calanus finmarchicus<\/em>, which influences nearby marine populations.<\/li>\n<li>Bridging the U.S. East Coast and European coastal CPR routes, helping fill a critical gap in the global survey.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Continued NSF support is essential for maintaining the multi-decadal time series, vital for climate and ecological research.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cpr-beams\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2024\/10\/map.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cpr-beams\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2024\/10\/map.jpg\" alt=\"Current routes are shown as red lines\" height=\"375\" width=\"608\" title=\"map\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tColour scale shows typical\nabundance values (averaged over all seasons) of <em>Calanus finmarchicus<\/em> in individuals per m3.\nCurrent routes are shown as red lines, and the Z-, ZB, ZC route is shown in bold, indicating how\nthis route crosses the major source population of <em>Calanus finmarchicus<\/em> in the North Atlantic.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Core Monitoring The project aims to sustain the U.S. contribution to the North Atlantic Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey, specifically the CPR Z route (including Z-, ZB, and ZC tows).&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"parent":13713,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"0","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cpr-beams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cpr-beams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cpr-beams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cpr-beams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cpr-beams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cpr-beams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14017,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cpr-beams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602\/revisions\/14017"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cpr-beams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cpr-beams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}