[Exports_project_office] EXPORTS and AtlantECO

[T. Rynearson]

Hi all, particularly Stephane,

Thanks for reaching out about the next EXPORTS cruise.  It would be 
great to collaborate as it sounds like we have synergistic goals. I 
think it makes sense for the exports 'omics group and your group to have 
a mtg sometime this fall.  As Dave mentioned, we're working on revising 
our plans at the moment.  I suggest that after our 'omics subgroup has 
written up a revised plan, we'll reach out to you so that we can see 
where where the most fruitful collaborations/additional samples lie.

In the meantime, if you have any documentation re. goals you'd like to 
accomplish as part of the EXPORTS collaboration, please feel free to 
send those along.  There could very well be bases that you'd like to 
cover that we simply don't have the bandwidth to touch.  Information on 
volumes needed may also help as we tackle the water budgets.

In terms of sampling, I or someone from my lab will be happy to help 
collect samples for you on the upcoming cruise.

All the best-

Tatiana

On 9/8/20 1:49 PM, David Siegel wrote:
> Hi Stéphane,
>
> Thanx for the email. The plan of the moment is for EXPORTS to charter 
> the RRS Discovery and RRS James Cook. We would be sailing late May 
> through end of June 2021 fromSouthampton UK, targeting a site near the 
> PAP Observatory for 28 days of sampling. We are on the NOC and 
> NERC schedules but are awaiting final approval and schedule in Oct. It 
> also looks like the WHOI OTZ group will join us for 10 days on site on 
> the R/V Sarmiento De Gamboa. The EXPORTS team is working on revising 
> our plans from this year over the next couple of months. We have some 
> challenges ahead (COVID ??'s, 6 fewer berths than our planned 
> deployment for this year, working on UK vs. US ships, etc.). But we’ll 
> get there.
>
> We remain very interested in collaborating with AtlantECO and I have 
> cc:ed here the ‘omics folks involved in EXPORTS. I severely doubt we 
> will have available berths on either ship for additional participants. 
>  Sorry.  However, I see no reason why samples cannot be collected for 
> you, given proper preparation, etc.  If this comes to pass it would be 
> great to have serious conversations amongst our teams so the details 
> are worked through (sampling protocols, filters and primers used, etc.).
>
> It would be awesome if Tara Ocean could join us and we are super happy 
> to help facilitate operational logistics, collaborations, etc. 
> Emmanuel Boss and Lee Karp-Boss are EXPORTS PI’s and can help make 
> sure we Tara Ocean could extend the remote sensing capabilities of the 
> deployment as well - furthering NASA’s mission.
>
> The plan of the moment is to have marine snow catchers on the EXPORTS 
> process ship. Uta Passow is the PI uncharge of the MSC collections, 
> but she is not planning on sailing (we will work this out somehow…). 
>  I know Colleen Durkin and Alyson Santoro have been working on ‘omics 
> on collected aggregates from our North Pacific cruise and it would be 
> great for them and Sandy to talk more.  So, the long answer is yes.
>
> Hope this helps and it would be good for us all to talk over the next 
> couple of months.
>
> Best, Dave, Ivona and Laura
>
>
> ************************
> David A. Siegel
> Chair, Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science, and
> Professor, Department of Geography and Earth Research Institute
> UC Santa Barbara
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3060, USA
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>> On Sep 3, 2020, at 10:32 AM, Stéphane PESANT <pesant at ebi.ac.uk 
>> <mailto:pesant at ebi.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Dave and Laura,
>>
>> AtlantECO is kicking-off this month and I wanted to get back to you 
>> regarding our participation to EXPORTS next spring. We are still very 
>> much interested to come on board and contribute to the microbiome 
>> genomics programme, using AtlantECO's standard protocols based on 
>> Tara Oceans protocols.
>>
>> Alternatively, there is a chance that our Mission Microbiomes on 
>> board Tara cannot leave for the South Atlantic this winter as 
>> planned. If that was the case, could Tara join EXPORTS to conduct 
>> targeted 'omics sampling in coordination with you before heading South?
>>
>> Finally, Sandy Thomalla (cc'd) will do genomics on aggregates 
>> collected with a marine snow catcher in the Southern Ocean as part of 
>> AtlantECO, and we were wondering if something similar could be done 
>> as part of EXPORTS. Did you already plan to use a marine snow 
>> catcher, and did anyone plan to do 'omics on aggregates?
>>
>> We look forward to getting your feedback on these ideas, and building 
>> synergies between EXPORTS and AtlantECO.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Stéphane
>>
>> AtlantECO project: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3741972
>>
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>> Stéphane PESANT
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>
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Tatiana Rynearson
Professor
Graduate School of Oceanography
University of Rhode Island, Bay Campus
South Ferry Road
Narragansett, RI 02882-1197
Phone (401)874-6022
https://web.uri.edu/rynearson-lab/

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