In Plankton Planet, we are promoting a revolutionary low-cost, eco-friendly, and society-engaging Oceanography 3.0, by providing the eDNA and imaging tools to connect oceanographers to the thousands of “blue citizens” (seatizens!) who sail across the oceans at any given time. The aim is to undertake a holistic worldwide sampling of plankton life at an unprecedented level of sensitivity, ultimately allowing robust mathematical modeling toward a predictable ocean.
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In 2015, 20 crews of sailors were able to sample plankton biomass from the world surface ocean in a single year, generating the first seatizen-based, planetary dataset of marine plankton biodiversity based on DNA barcodes. The quality of this dataset is comparable to that generated by Tara Oceans and is not biased by the multiplication of samplers.
Project Status:
Past
Currently Seeking Community Scientists?
No
Project Website:
https://planktonplanet.org