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Maintaining long time-series of data is an essential part of the Lab work, which allows understanding of the wider scale functioning of the marine environment, and establishing the reliability of trends. The Microplankton Lab maintains the "Sevastopol Bay Black Sea" (SBBS) – an oceanographic time-series and marine biodiversity reference site in Sevastopol Bay and adjacent coastal waters. The SBBS provides an ideal platform for collaborative projects.

The following map shows the position of the principal stations of the SBBS. 

 

 

In situ measurements, including temperature, salinity and nutrients, are undertaken bi-monthly at the coastal, open-water station 1 and the bay stations 2 and 3, which have some of the longest time-series in the Black Sea for zooplankton, phytoplankton and bacterioplankton. Seawater samples collected at all the stations from board of the motorboat "Vyazemsky" (see photos below) are examined microscopically for phytoplankton and microzooplankton species composition, and analysed via analytical flow cytometry for smaller phytoplankton and bacteria. Such a regular and comparable time-series has allowed analysis of seasonality, composition and abundance over a long period of time – an ideal tool for establishing the presence of trends and detecting changes.

 

  

 

The SBBS covers the following time periods:

Bacterioplankton: 1966-76, 1983-84, 1988-89, 1992-93, 1998-99.

Bacterioplankton, phytoplankton (pico, nano, micro), protozooplankton, mesozooplankton: 2001-2014.

 

 

 

The Lab scientists travel hundreds of nautical miles aboard research vessels every year to gather and analyze data, conduct shipboard experiments, and study marine ecosystem dynamics in the field. IBSS has at service the R/V Professor Vodyanitsky (1976), specially designed for performing hydro biological investigations in the ocean. This intensively exploited comfortable ocean-going ship was the best in Ukraine both in the equipment and its sailing safety record.

 

  

 

The expeditions of the Lab scientists to the Black Sea are highlighted here:

 

Date

Cruise

Region

Stations

Samples (microscopy)

Samples (flow cytometry)

1992 

July

 

R/V Prof Vodyanitsky 37

 

Crimea, E Black Sea

3

21

na

1993

 Sept 

 

R/V Prof Vodyanitsky 43

W & NW Black Sea

6

30

na

  1998 

June

R/V Horizon 2

 

Crimea, W & NW Black Sea

8

35

 

 

na

1998

Dec

R/V Diorit 11

Zmeiniy Iland

20

20

na

1999 

March-Apr

R/V Prof Vodyanitsky 53

 

Crimea

10

38

na

2005

Oct

R/VParshin

 

W Black Sea

23

na

67

2011

July

R/V Prof Vodyanitsky 69

 

Crimea, W & NW Black Sea

19

na

53

2011

Aug

R/V Prof Vodyanitsky 70

 

Crimea, W & NW Black Sea

23

29

101

2013 

May

R/V Prof Vodyanitsky 72

 

Crimea, W & NW Black Sea

28

20

266

2013

June

R/V Prof Vodyanitsky 73

 

Crimea, W Black Sea

8

na

46

2013 

Sept

R/V Prof Vodyanitsky 76

 

Crimea, W & NW Black Sea

5

na

17

2014

Sept

R/V Prof Vodyanitsky 77 E Black Sea 15 na 75

2014

Nov-Dec

R/V Prof Vodyanitsky 78 E Black Sea 35 na 110