MICOLOR-1 Cruise, RV García del Cid

The MICOLOR-1 campaign has been designed to capture the maximum diversity of stations based on their productivity. It is about measuring sedimentation flows to the bottom of the ocean and at the same time measuring the structure of the communities of microorganisms in the particles on the surface, in the deep maximum of chlorophyll, at approx. 200 m and in the mesopelagic. The surface and those depths will be characterized by measuring nutrients, chlorophyll, flow cytometry, and the activity of algae and bacteria. The community will be studied by DNA sequencing on the particles