Transplant experiment at Panarea - 23 November/4 December 2011

Stefano Goffredo, Erik Caroselli and Fiorella Prada (University of Bologna) went to Panarea to check the coral transplant experiment along a pH gradient inside an underwater volcano crater, for studying the effects of ocean acidification on Mediterranean corals. 

Gas emissions sampling.

 

The video of the transplant experiment.

 

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Erik driving the boat to the crater. Heading Bottaro.

 

Golden Grouper...
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...and Brown Grouper, waiting for us at the crater.

 

Stefano is sampling the gas emissions. Stefano.
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Fiorella.

 

The volcano of Stromboli behind Basiluzzo.

 

Dattilo.
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Panarea.

 

Fiorella at the docks. Panarea jetty from our room at sunrise.
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Fiorella checking the experiment.

 

A Glass Anemone. Another Sea Anemone.
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The control site in the Posidonia medow.

 

Site 2... ...at the edge of the crater.
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Site 4, inside the crater.

 

Corals in the bubbles.
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Carbon dioxyde bubbles.

 

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  More Bubbles.