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Zooplankton Sampler Delivered
Ocean Instruments delivered a McLane Research Laboratories ZPS Zooplankton Sampler to the National Oceanography Center, Southampton. The instrument will be used to study zooplankton on the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) in the Atlantic South West of Ireland. Existing users of the McLane ZPS include Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and the Far Eastern Ecological Centre in Sakhalin, Russia. The McLane ZPS Zooplankton Sampler is designed to collect a time-series set of zooplankton, in-situ, in support of oceanographic research projects and environmental monitoring programs. A sample is collected using a specially designed positive displacement pump that generates negative pressure through a dome-shaped intake. The ZPS 750 sample volume is carefully designed to avoid triggering zooplankton escape responses related to velocity or light gradients. Ambient water is drawn from the sample vol-
ume through mesh windows in a sample belt. Up to 250 liters of water can be filtered through each frame of mesh. Zooplankton are held on the mesh by the flow until trapped in the sample window well by a second covering mesh. Samples, undamaged by the collection procedure, are preserved in a fixative reservoir. The ZPS can collect up to 50 samples in a single autonomous deployment specified by a user-defined sampling schedule, and the instrument can be deployed on a mooring for typically three months.
Statoil Employees Disappear with Flight
StatoilHydro announced that the company was strongly affected by the news that three colleagues were on the apparently ill-fated Air France flight which disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009. It is the Rio de Janeiro office that has been hit the hardest. Gone missing with the flight were Geologist Marcela Pellizzon, 29, and lawyer Gustavo Peretti, 30, both Brazilian citizens, and Kristian Berg Andersen, 37 a Norwegian citizen. Country manager Jorge Camargo in Brazil held an employee forum for all employees in Rio de Janeiro. "This has been a terrible day for us, and the loss of three fine colleagues is very hard to
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bear," said Camargo. "We are doing all we can to support the families of the missing colleagues." Pellizzon joined StatoilHydro as a contractor in mid-2008 and became a permanent employee in October. She is married to another StatoilHydro employee in Brazil. Peretti was hired in mid-2008, and made a key contribution to building up local expertise in Rio de Janeiro. From January 1 this year, he has worked at the group's Vækerø office outside Oslo, but had recently returned to the Rio office. Andersen joined Hydro in January 2002. Posted to Rio de Janeiro on January 1, 2008, he has played a key role in the take-over of Brazil's Peregrino field.
June 2009
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