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The Ocean Productivity Site has stopped updating its data.
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(09.12.2024)

Laboratory Data

[Note: Field data are available here for those who are interested]

Diel Bio-optical Properties

The Laboratory Data path of our website is intended to serve as a repository and a link to repositories for lab-based measurements of phytoplankton physiology, production, and optical properties. We encourage researchers collecting relevant data to contribute their results to this website (to make a contribution, please contact Robert O'Malley at: omalleyr_at_science_dot_oregonstate_dot_edu).

Currently, you are viewing the Diel Bio-optical Properties lab data page. The GitHub link can be used to access the data, description, and analyses described in the following study:

Baetge, N., Halesy, K.H., Graff, J.R., Ver Wey, B., Westberry, T.K., Appel, A.E., Bourdin, G., Begouen Demeaux, C., Boss, E., Behrenfeld, M.J. (in review). Bio-optical properties of cultured phytoplankton over complete diel cycles.

This study was comprised of time-resolved cellular, photophysiological, and optical properties for three morphologically distinct and evolutionarily different cultured phytoplankton ranging in cell size from ~1 – 6 µm: Thalassiosira pseudonana, Synechococcus (WH8102), and Ostreococcus lucimarinus.