First Underwater Vision Profiler user meeting and MOPGA-TAD midterm symposium
at the Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France and online
15th & 16th September 2022
supported by AANChOR CSA via I/ITAPINA
and
Please register for day 1 and day 2 separately with these links for online participation:
Day 1: https://cnrs.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OIwBZlsBSuuwbqOjHky1fw
Day 2: https://cnrs.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X3G95o8tSKW18VOsJkqpWQ
Day 1, Thursday, 15th September 2022
Times are Central European Summer Time, CEST = UTC/GMT +2
9:00 - 9:10: Rainer Kiko - Welcome and general info
9:10 - 9:30: Sofia Cordeiro, Florence Coroner, Rainer Kiko - AANCHOR - AA-MARI.Net - I/ITAPINA
9:30 - 11:00: what's going on - Hawaii, China, Africa, Europe
9:30 - 9:45: University of Hawaii, USA - Reece James (online)
9:45 - 10:15: LOV, France - Marc Picheral - LOV/PIQv operational services available to the UVP
user community
10:15 - 10:30: LOV, France - Camille Catalano: UVP development activities at LOV
10:30 - 10:45: Jiaozhou Bay Marine Ecosystem Research Station, China - Xiaoxia Sun (online)
10:45 - 11:00: Nelson Mandela University, South Africa - Margaux Noyon
11:00 - 11:15: Break
11:00 - 13:00: what’s going on - Europe:
11:15 - 11:45: France, LOV - Rainer Kiko - MOPGA-TAD midterm: Establishing sustained
zooplankton and particle observations to study Tropical Atlantic Deoxygenation
11:45 - 12:00: France, LOV - Alberto Baudena - MOPGA-TAD midterm: 5 months in the lifetime
of an eddy observed with a UVP6 on an ARGO float
12:00 - 12:15: France, LOV - Hervé Claustre - Robotic Exploration of plankton-driven Fluxes in the
marine twIlight zoNE - REFINE (online)
12:15 - 12:30: France, LOV - Thelma Panaïotis - Deployment of a UVP6 on a glider
12:30 - 12:45: France, LOV - Lionel Guidi - Assessing marine biogenic matter Production, Export
and Remineralization: from the surface to the dark Ocean - APERO (online)
12:45 - 12:55: Discussion
12:55: Group picture
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30: what's going on - US East Coast, Europe
14:00 - 14:15: U. of Vermont, USA - Jason Stockwell - UVP deployments in Lake Champlain
14:15 - 14:30: GEOMAR, Germany - Helena Hauss - Comparison of UVP5, UVP6 and other
imaging sensor deployments in two Norwegian Fjords
14:30 - 14:45: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA - Elena Ceballos - Use of UVPs at
WHOI - part 1
14:45 - 15:00: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA- Clarissa Karthäuser - Use of UVPs at
WHOI - part 2
15:00 - 15:15: U. Maine, USA - Lee Karp Boss - NAAMES and GO-Ship (online)
15:15 - 15:30: Discussion
15:30 - 16:00: Break
16:00 - 17:30: what's going on - US East Coast, Canada, US West Coast, Europe
16:00 - 16:15: U. South Carolina, USA - Alexander Barth
16:15 - 16:30: National Oceanographic Center, Southampton, UK - Marika Takeuchi
16:30 - 16:45: Memorial University Newfoundland, Canada - Maxime Geoffroy -Linking
hydroacoustics with UVP imagery to study the Arctic pelagic ecosystem (online)
16:45 - 17:00: U. of Alaska, USA - Stephanie O’Daly - (online)
17:00 - 17:15: UC Santa Barbara, USA - David Siegel - First results from UVP deployments during
NASA’s EXPORTS experiment (online)
17:15 - 18:00: Discussion
Day 2, Friday, 16th September 2022
9:00 - 9:15: Jerome Coindat (Hydroptic) - UVP sales and future developments
9:15 - 9:30: Discussion w. Hydroptic
Image classification:
9:30 - 9:45: Florian Ricour (LOV) - Embedded classification algorithm for the UVP6
9:55 - 10:00: Emilia Trudnoswska (IOPAN, Poland) - Appearance – how morphological traits of
marine snow and zooplankton shed a new light on ecological observations
10:00 - 10:15: Martin Schröder (Kiel University, Germany) - MorphoCluster
10:15 - 10:30: Lars Schmarje (Kiel University, Germany, online) - Fuzzy overclustering
10:30 - 10:45: General discussion
10:45 - 11:00: Break
Ecopart and Ecotaxa dataset collection and evaluation
11:00 - 11:15: Lars Stemmann (LOV) - Generation of a global UVP image dataset
11:15 - 11:30: Shreya Mehta (Physical Research Laboratory, India, online) - Trichodesmium
distribution - a study based on a large UVP data set
11:30 - 11:45: Rainer Kiko (GEOMAR/LOV) - The UVP5 particle dataset
11:45 - 12:00: Kelsey Bisson (Oregon State University, USA, online) -
Uncertainties of particle size measurements of the UVP5
12:00 - 12:15: Anna Sommer (U. of East Anglia, UK, online ) - Testing the reconstruction of
modeled POC
12:15 - 12:30: Daniel Clements (UCLA, USA, online) - Global reconstruction of the particle size
spectrum
12:30 - 12:45: Mathilde Dugenne (LOV) - Generating PSSdb - The pelagic size structure
database
12:45 - 13:00: General discussion on dataset collection and evaluation
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00: Community development of data processing tools
14:00 - 14:15: Jean-Olivier Irisson (Ecotaxa API and other software tools)
14:15 - 14:30: Alexander Barth - R tools to query Ecotaxa
14:30 - 15:00: Processing tools discussion
15:00 - 15:45: Towards operationality - development of the UVP user network and deployment planning
for the next 15 years
Discussion led by Lars Stemman to outline a white paper that aims to develop an integrated
science plan. Topics: Further development of data sharing models, image and data processing
and streaming, deployment planning, open scientific problems and how to solve them
15:45 - 16:15: Break
16:15 - 18:00: Open discussion
This event is supported by a Make Our Planet Great Again grant from the French National Research Agency within the
“Programme d’Investissements d’Avenir” (grant no. ANR-19-MPGA-0012), the Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche,
France and the AANChOR Coordination & Support Action project, aimed to support the implementation of the Belém
Statement. The AANChOR project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No. 818395.
