Estimating In Situ Sinking Speeds of Marine Particles Using a New Image Based Method on an Autonomous Platform

Alexandre Accardo1, Manon Laget2, Emilia Trudnowska3, Camille Catalano1, Simon Ramondenc1, Jessica Drysdale4, Marc Picheral5, Dr. Tristan Biard6, Kaitlyn Tradd4, Ken Buesseler7, Laurent Memery8 and Lionel Guidi1, (1)Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, UMR 7093 LOV, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, (2)Dalhousie University, Oceanography Department, Halifax, Canada, (3)Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of Marine Ecology, Sopot, Poland, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole, United States, (5)Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, UMR 7093 LOV, Villefranche, France, (6)Sorbonne Universites, UPMC Universite Paris 06, CNRS, Laboratoire Adaptation et Diversiteen Milieu Marin UMR7144, Station Biologi, Roscoff, France, (7)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (8)CNRS, LEMAR (UBO, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD), Brest, France