[Exports_project_office] EXPORTS and AtlantECO

Wed Sep 9 03:49:02 PDT 2020

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the enthusiastic response. I will let you know as soon as we 
get confirmation that Tara could join EXPORTS, and then happy to join 
the planning team to coordinate with you.

We are organising a workshop on AtlantECO standard protocols in late 
October, early November. I will forward you the invitation in case 
someone from your 'Omics team can join. In any case, let's plan an 
AtlnatECO/EXPORTS meeting after the workshop.

Re. the Marine Snow Catcher, great that this was already in the 
planning. I will let Sandy pick up the discussion with Uta, Colleen and 
Alyson.

Cheers,
Stéphane

Le 08/09/2020 à 19:49, David Siegel a écrit :
> 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
> Ph: 01-805-893-4547
> Em: david.siegel at ucsb.edu <mailto:david.siegel at ucsb.edu>
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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
>>
>> -- 
>> Stéphane PESANT
>> ORCID iD iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4936-5209
>>
>> European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
>> European Molecular Biology Laboratory
>> Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
>> Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD
>> United Kingdom
>

-- 
Stéphane PESANT
ORCID iD iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4936-5209

European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD
United Kingdom
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