Sampling campaign in The Taiwan Strait and participation at the International Symposium in Pingtan / 4.07.2019

Between 23.5. and 2.6. 2019 Bor Krajnc attended an international conference and sampling campaign in China. A conference named "2019 International Symposium on Ecological Protection and Restoration for Watershed-Coastal-Marine Environment" took place from 25 to 27 May in Pingtan, China. The sampling was carried out in The Taiwan Strait, after the conference.

Bor was invited for the sampling campaign by The Institute of Hydrobiology of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan with whom we are cooperating in the project: "Mechanisms of red tides and hypoxia as ecological marine disasters and technologies for its early warning and emergency security along the sea of the" Belt and Road" countries".
At the conference, he presented the study of carbon dioxide fluxes in the Gulf of Trieste, where stable isotope techniques were used to differentiate between different sources of carbon.
Sampling was conducted in the northern part of the Taiwan Strait with the aim to research the dynamics of the red tides. Bor took samples for the assessment of different sources of particulate organic matter and dissolved inorganic carbon in the strait. Seventeen locations within the strait were sampled. At each location, water and sediments were sampled. Stable isotope composition of carbon (and nitrogen) will be determined for different parameters in seawater, pore water, particulate organic matter, and sediment samples with the aim to assess the sources of carbon and particulate organic matter.