BioSWOT-Med cruise : Interview with Maristella Berta

The langrangian experiments

Maristella Berta is in charge of lagrangian instrument coordination in the BioSWOT-Med campaign. She describes what drifters and floats are, what information can be gathered from them and how real-time data can help inform the adaptative sampling strategy of BioSWOT-Med.

Maristella Berta and a float

THE RESEARCH THEMES – Maristella Berta is a researcher in physical oceanography at the Institute of Marine Science – National Research Council (CNR-ISMAR) in Lerici, La Spezia, Italy. In the BioSWOT-Med campaign she is charge of of lagrangian instruments coordination. She describes what drifters and floats are and what information can be gathered from them.
 

Contact: Tosca Ballerini

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Maristella Berta deploying a CARTHE drifter

CARTHE drifters