"PIRANAs and PIRATAs
Remote Sensing the Amazon River Plume"

Ajit Subramanian

23 Oct 2004

Guest Scientist: Ajit Subramanian

The PIRANA in question is our NSF-funded Biocomplexity study: "Potential Influence of Riverine and Aerosol inputs on Nitrogen fixation in the Atlantic." The PIRATA is: "PIlot Research moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic." (yes, tortured acronyms that someone spent a lot time coming up with!) Most of Dr. Subramanian's talk will be on the influence of the Amazon and Saharan dust on the tropical marine ecosystem. He will also talk about the moored array that sends back temperature and salinity data realtime from the tropical Atlantic, as he seeks strategies to utilize these kinds of real time data sources for classroom exercises.

Dr. Subramanian joined the LDEO Marine Biology Division at the beginning of 2004. His Workshop was originally scheduled for December, but has been changed to this date to enable him to participate in remote sensing training in Chile. we are very pleased to welcome him to the Earth2Class program.