IMOS - ANMN National Reference Station (NRS) Esperance Mooring

The NRS Esperance Mooring (IMOS platform code: NRSESP) is one of a series of national reference stations designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in Australian coastal ocean waters. The mooring is located at Latitude:-33.9, Longitude:121.8. The mooring was retrieved in December 2013, and not redeployed. \n\nPhysical sampling will be undertaken at each of the reference stations on a monthly basis (The last sample at this site was collected in July 2013). The physical samples will be analysed for nutrients, plankton species, both visibly and genetically, and pCO2. Biological sampling will greatly improve Australia's capability to meet its obligations for ecosystem based management and allow many researchers the opportunity to investigate possible long term changes in ecology that are likely to be linked to climate variability and wide scale validation of remotely sensed (satellite) observations of plant biomass.NRS埃斯佩兰斯锚系观测站（IMOS平台代码：NRSESP）是一系列国家参考观测站之一，旨在监测澳大利亚近岸海域的特定海洋学现象。该锚系站的坐标为纬度-33.9、经度121.8，于2013年12月被回收，此后未重新部署。 所有参考观测站均将按月开展物理采样工作（该站点的末次物理采样采集于2013年7月）。采集的物理样本将针对营养盐、浮游生物物种（涵盖形态学目视鉴定与遗传学鉴定两种方式）以及分压二氧化碳（pCO2）开展分析。生物采样将大幅提升澳大利亚履行基于生态系统管理相关义务的能力，同时为众多研究者提供契机，以探究可能与气候变率相关的长期生态变化，并对遥感（卫星）获取的植物生物量观测结果进行大范围验证。