SAMO - Observatório Microbiano no Atlântico Sul

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Coordenadas: 34° 37′ S, 54° 17′ W

Tempo ativo: Janeiro/2018 – atualmente

Coleta: mensal

Ambiente: Costeiro, Oceano Atlântico

Ecoregião: Pampa

Impacto principal: Disturbios antropogênicos locais (descarga de nutrientes, fertilizantes e pesticidas, atividades marinhas, turismo)

Descrição

SAMO (South Atlantic Microbial Observatory) is located in the South Atlantic Ocean, in the marine portion of Laguna de Rocha natural protected area (DINAMA, 2010). The sampling station (34°42'43.36”S, 54°14'08.64”W) was established as a microbial observatory in 2014, in the frame of an international initiative for microbial life survey, i.e. Ocean Sampling Day (Kopf et al. 2015). The station is 2.3 nautical miles from the coast and close to the 20 m isobath. It is the only aquatic microbial observatory in Uruguay, and joined the μSudAqua micro-observatories network since its beginning in 2017. The μSudAqua network is a reference for exchange in terms of methodological and conceptual approaches to gather and analyze data on aquatic microbial communities and their environment. Current collaborations include flow-cytometry training (starting in 2022 with Fernando Unrein as visiting professor) and ecological modelling (starting in 2024 with Erick Mateus-Barros as post-doc). Next year, in the frame of the recently launched Regional Postgraduate School in Microbial Ecology of Aquatic Systems, further training will be achieved with the participation of several researchers and students of the μSudAqua network.

References

DINAMA, Dirección Nacional de Medio Ambiente. 2010. Informe Nacional del Estado del Ambiente -Uruguay 2009. Ministerio de Vivienda, Ordenamiento Territorial y Medio Ambiente, Uruguay

Kopf, A., M. Bicak, R. Kottmann, J. Schnetzer, I.Kostadinov, K. Lehmann,et al. 2015. The ocean sampling day consortium. Gigascience4:1-5