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Perspectives on Future Indian Ocean Research from Early Career Scientists


Affiliations
1 Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380 009
2 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
3 University of the Western Cape, Biodiversity and Conservation Biology Department, South Africa
4 CSIR National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India
5 ESSO-Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad, India
 

The first International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE; conducted in the early 1960s) was one of the greatest international, interdisciplinary oceanographic research efforts. It involved 46 research vessels (under 14 different flags) that carried out an unprecedented number of hydrographic surveys (and repeat surveys) of the entire Indian Ocean (IO) basin from 1960 to 1965. One key to the successful qualitative and quantitative assessment of plankton organisms across the IO was the unification of zooplankton collections using the IO Standard Net.
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Arvind Singh
Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380 009
Benjamin Kurten
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Riaan Cedras
University of the Western Cape, Biodiversity and Conservation Biology Department, South Africa
Michelle Fernandes
CSIR National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India
Nimit Kumar
ESSO-Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad, India

Abstract


The first International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE; conducted in the early 1960s) was one of the greatest international, interdisciplinary oceanographic research efforts. It involved 46 research vessels (under 14 different flags) that carried out an unprecedented number of hydrographic surveys (and repeat surveys) of the entire Indian Ocean (IO) basin from 1960 to 1965. One key to the successful qualitative and quantitative assessment of plankton organisms across the IO was the unification of zooplankton collections using the IO Standard Net.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv111%2Fi11%2F1741-1742