BioSWOT-Med cruise : Interview with Alice della Penna

The exclusion experiment to measure zooplankton grazing

During BioSWOT-Med Alice della Penna is in charge of study zooplankton grazing. She explains what it is, why it is important to measure it and she describe a new “exclusion experiment” to study it during the campaign.

Alice della Penna - Crédits : Nicole Estaphan.

THE INSTRUMENTS OF OCEANOGRAPHERS – Alice della Penna is a biological oceanographer currently working as Lecturer at the Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, in New Zealand. Her research interests focus on how oceanic currents affect marine life from microbes to large animals such as sharks, seabirds, and marine mammals. During the BioSWOT-Med campaign she will be in charge to study zooplankton grazing.

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