RAPID : research on automated plankton identification

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2007-06Author
Benfield, Mark C.
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Grosjean, Philippe
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Culverhouse, Phil F.
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Irigoien, Xabier
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Sieracki, Michael E.
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Lopez-Urrutia, Angel
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Dam, Hans G.
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Hu, Qiao
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Davis, Cabell S.
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Hansen, Allen
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Pilskaln, Cynthia H.
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Riseman, Edward M.
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Schultz, Howard
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Utgoff, Paul E.
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Gorsky, Gabriel
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/2776As published
https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2007.63DOI
10.5670/oceanog.2007.63Abstract
When Victor Hensen deployed the first
true plankton1 net in 1887, he and his
colleagues were attempting to answer
three fundamental questions: What
planktonic organisms are present in
the ocean? How many of each type are
present? How does the plankton’s composition
change over time? Although
answering these questions has remained
a central goal of oceanographers, the
sophisticated tools available to enumerate
planktonic organisms today offer
capabilities that Hensen probably could
never have imagined.
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Author Posting. © Oceanography Society, 2007. This article is posted here by permission of Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 20, 2 (2007): 172-187.