Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Panama, Kenya

Alkalinity, acidity and pH of the water column; Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies; Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column; Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column; Phaeopigment concentrations in sediment; Primary production in the water column; Zooplankton taxonomy-related abundance per unit volume of the water column; Zooplankton taxonomy-related biomass expressed as nitrogen per unit volume of the water column; Salinity of the water column; Silicate concentration parameters in the water column; Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column; Bacteria taxonomic abundance in water bodies; Phytoplankton taxonomic abundance in water bodies; Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column; Air temperature; Phytoplankton taxonomic biomass in water bodies

Plankton nets; discrete water samplers; CTD

The leading oceanographic institutes of Ukraine are holding extensive and very valuable information on the species diversity and spatial-temporal variability of physical, chemical and biological characteristics from the World's Tropical Ocean. This information has been practically inaccessible to scientists outside the Former Soviet Union. These archived materials can be made available through establishment of scientific links between western Europe and Former Soviet Union countries which will enable data to be evaluated, jointly analysed and made available to the international oceanographic scientific community. These data have been integrated with data from Panama and Kenya to form a very comprehensive database. The database was created within Darwin Initiative Project No. 162/8/251.

Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, NAS of Ukraine
2, Nakhimov ave.
Sevastopol

99011
Ukraine