Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/C514215/1
An investigation of the inherent optical properties of suspended material for the improvement of ERSEM and satellite maps.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr GH Tilstone, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth Marine Lab
- Co-Investigator:
- Mr GF Moore, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth Marine Lab
- Co-Investigator:
- Prof. I Allen, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth Marine Lab
- Grant held at:
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth Marine Lab
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Pollution and Waste
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Water Quality
- Radiative Processes & Effects
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Survey & Monitoring
- Sediment/Sedimentary Processes
- Abstract:
- In the year 2000 the European Union revised their policy on water to improve the quality of drinking and bathing water in European coastal areas. Suspended material in the sea comes from rivers after soil is washed off agriculture land or from sewage discharge, from sediment at the bottom of the sea as sea water is mixed by currents tides and the wind and from living and non-living microscopic plants. This sediment can change the quality of water and it is therefore important to monitor the amounts of sediment in water. Sediment can both absorb and scatter light in the water column and numerical models and satellite imagery principally use the signal from scattered light to map sediment concentrations in coastal areas for water quality monitoring. Currently the way this is done is very simplistic and does not allow us to properly assess how the different sediment components (mineral, living & non-living algae) interact with light in the water column. New scientific instruments have been developed to measure the absorption and scattering of light, It is especially important for those instruments that measure scattering that we evaluate how accurate and precise these measurements are. This project proposes to measure the interaction of different components of the sediment in controlled laboratory conditions and to evaluate the accuracy of a new scattering instrument. The measurements will be used to improve numerical models and satellite images in coastal areas for use by monitoring organisation that measure the quality and health of our sea water.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/C514215/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Small Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Small Grants
This grant award has a total value of £30,612
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £18,166 | £836 | £3,253 | £8,357 |
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