2021-01-05

Stop motion video of the OBSEA camera.
On December 19, 2020, a dead dolphin was found on the beach of s'Abanell (Blanes, Girona, Catalunya) (www.diaridegir....
The fall of big mammals or turtles is a natural process poorly studied that is occuring in the ocean. For this reason the Obsea camera will focus on a dolphin’s carcass to determine if there are spatial and temporal changes in the local community, as observed for whale carcasses in the deep sea. The tripod camera will collect images every 30 min. This time-lapse image acquisition will be accompanied by environmental data collection (i.e. temperature and salinity by CTD, current speed and direction by ADCP, chlorophyll concentration by fluorometer and turbidity).
This work is conducted by researchers from Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UaB), el Departament de Medi Ambient de la Generalitat de Catalunya and the SARTI research group from la UPC in who operates the Obsea underwater observatory.