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SeaGrass Workshop Sea trial: Data report


P. Felisberto, pfelis@ualg.pt
F. Zabel, fredz@wireless.com.pt
C. Martins, cvmartins@ualg.pt
SiPLAB, University of Algarve
Campus de Gambelas,
PT-8005-139 Faro, Portugal

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Ref.: SiPLAB Report 04/11, SiPLAB, University of Algarve,2011.

Abstract
The Seagrass Workshop sea trial took place in a very shallow water area in front of STARESO (Station the recherches sous-marines et oceanographiques), Punta la Revellata, Gulf of Calvi, Corsica from 10 to 19 October 2011, in the framework of the Action ES0906 (Seagrass productivity: from genes to ecosystem management) supported by the FP7 Programme COST (European Cooperation in the Field of Scientic and Technical Research). During this multidisciplinary workshop the participating groups have sampled the Posidonia oceanica field using different methods in order to characterize the seagras individuals and the whole community. This report describes the data gathered by the SiPLAB/Marsensing team, which objective is to characterize the in uence of seagrass oxygen production in acoustic propagation and develop techniques to estimate oxygen production by acoustic means.



ACKNOWLEDGMENT:
The authors thank Prof. Rui Santos for the invitation to participate in this workshop, technical and scientic staat STARESO, specially Sylvie Gobert, for the logistics, at sea operations, meteorological and CTD data, and Marsensing for the self-recording hydrophones. This work was partially supported by the FP7 Programme COST project Action ES0906 and FCT (ISR/IST plurianual funding) through the PIDDAC Program funds.