Project: Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology

Acronym/Short Name:BIOSSCOPE
Project Duration:2015-11 -2025-10
Geolocation:North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre, Bermuda Atlantic Time Series (BATS) site

Description

The aim of BIOS-SCOPE is to expand knowledge about the BATS ecosystem and achieve a better understanding of ocean food web sources, sinks and transformations of DOM. Advances in knowledge and technology now poise us to investigate the specific mechanisms of DOM incorporation, oxidation and transformation by zooplankton and the distinct microbial plankton communities that have been discovered at BATS.

The overarching goal of the BIOS-SCOPE is to form and foster collaborations of cross disciplinary science that utilize a broad suite of genomic, chemical, ecological, and biogeochemical approaches to evaluate microbial process, structure and function on various scales. These scales will range from organism-compound and organism-organism interactions to large biogeochemical patterns on the ecosystem scale. For this purpose we have assembled a cross-disciplinary team including microbial oceanographers (Carlson and Giovannoni), a chemical oceanographer (Kujawinski), biological oceanographer / zooplankton ecologists (Maas and Blanco-Bercial) and microbial bioinformatician (Temperton) with the expertise and technical acuity that are needed to study complex interactions between food web processes, microbes and DOM quantity and quality in the oligotrophic ocean. This scientific team has a vision of harnessing this potential to produce new discoveries that provide a mechanistic understanding of the carbon cycle and explain the many emergent phenomenon that have yet to be understood.

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BIOSSCOPE I: November 1st, 2015 through October 31st, 2020
Current: November 1st, 2020 to October 31st, 2025


DatasetLatest Version DateCurrent State
Size Fractionated Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) and Particulate Organic Nitrogen (PON) collected during BIOS-SCOPE cruises (2018-2023) aboard the R/V Atlantic Explorer2025-06-17Final no updates expected
Size fractionated Amino Acid data collected in the Sargasso Sea during BIOS-SCOPE cruises AE2114 and AE2123 in August and November 20212025-06-13Final no updates expected
Size fractionated carbohydrate data collected in the Sargasso Sea during BIOS-SCOPE cruises AE2114 and AE2123 in August and November 20212025-06-13Final no updates expected
Chemical analyses of size-fractionated particle samples collected during the BIOS-SCOPE cruise AE1819 in the Sargasso Sea in July 20182024-02-22Final no updates expected
BIOS-SCOPE survey biogeochemical data as collected on Atlantic Explorer cruises (AE1614, AE1712, AE1819, AE1916) from 2016 through 2019 2021-10-17Final no updates expected
ZooSCAN images of zooplankton collected during BATS MOCNESS tows during R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises AE1614, AE1712, AE1830, and AE1819 in the vicinity of the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study from 2016 to 20182021-10-07Final no updates expected
ZooSCAN output from of imaged zooplankton collected during BATS MOCNESS tows during R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises AE1614, AE1712, AE1830, and AE1819 in the vicinity of the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study from 2016 to 20182021-10-05Final no updates expected
ZooSCAN biovolume to biomass from imaged zooplankton collected during MOCNESS tows during various R/V Atlantic Explorer cruises and small boat deployments in the Sargasso Sea betwen 2016 to 20192021-06-17Final no updates expected

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People

Lead Principal Investigator: Craig A. Carlson
University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Co-Principal Investigator: Stephen Giovannoni
Oregon State University (OSU)

Contact: Craig A. Carlson
University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB)


Data Management Plan

DMP_Carlson_Giovannoni_BIOS-SCOPE_Simons-Foundation-International.pdf (92.22 KB)
02/09/2025