Institute of Oceanography
Ex American Base Gournes
71003 Heraklion, Crete
Greece
Dr. Paraskevi Pitta
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outdoor – pelagic/benthic – marin
12 polyethylene mesocosm-bags up to 5 m3 (1.32 m diameter) incubated in two large volume concrete tanks (one with volume 150 m³ and 3 m depth and a second one with volume 350 m³ and 5 m depth)
9 benthocosms combining water column (1.5 m3, 4 m deep, 0.64 m diameter) and sediment (85 L) in the same polyethylene mesocosm-bag
The smaller (150 m³) tank is equipped by a sophisticated, fully-automated heating/cooling water system with electric valves, resistances and temperature sensors that allow water heating/cooling and temperature control at ±0.5 ºC of targeted temperature
Temperature, light, nutrients
Response of the ultra-oligotrophic food web of the Eastern Mediterranean to perturbations, climate change scenarios (simultaneous effect of warming & acidification), impact of aerosol input, effect of silver nanoparticles, benthic-pelagic coupling at benthocosms, hypoxia
chemical lab, radio-isotope lab (14C, 33P, 3H), flow cytometry lab, microscopy lab (inverted and epifluorescence microscopes, image analysis system), culture/live laboratory, constant temperature room and several general use labs, 26m long research vessel PHILIA, zodiac
no dormitories, accomodation in hotels
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