lisst-pic and lisst-tau on discovery to iceland

Master student Timotheus Nikolaus Bonifaz Fügl is doing an interuniversity Master's program in Oceans and Lakes and joined the CarbOcean Team for his master thesis on coccolithophore blooms. He obtained a Bachelor degree in Chemistry from the University of Regensburg (Germany) and also has two years of experience in carpentry. Timotheus proved to be a very skilled craftsman, as he built a neat box designed to house the LISST-Tau and LISST-PIC prototype for ship-based underway flow-through measurements.

After a series of quality tests, laboratory calibration and validation conducted by PhD student Qiming Sun and postdoctoral fellow Jordan Toullec, the PIC sensor prototype is ready to roll. The box with the LISST-Tau and LISST-PIC prototype was installed on the RRS Discovery in Southampton by Griet to embark on a voyage to the Icelandic Basin tomorrow!
This large, one-month long oceanographic campaign is led by Prof. Stephanie Henson (NOC) as part of the UK NERC-funded Bio-Carbon program aimed at better understanding and predicting biologically mediated ocean carbon storage. Specifically, we contribute to the coccolithophore component of the program referred to as the CHALKY project led by Prof. Alex Poulton (Heriot-Watt University).
Excited to see our babies go on their first field trip! ​