OUTFLOW

OUTFLOW will investigate how the presence of offshore wind farms affects the spatial redistribution of organic matter through the presence of fouling fauna. This fauna filters organic matter from the water column and repacks it as faecal pellets that are deposited on the sea floor. OUTFLOW will develop tracers for these pellets and use the tracer to track the fate of deposited pellets in the benthic food web, mineralization and burial processes. Upscaling towards the scale of wind farms, and multiple wind farms in the North Sea will be done through ecological and oceanographic modeling.

Cruises

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