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By Kyle Turner  Quite the view! On top of Table Mountain! After a tense battle with downtown NYC traffic and couple of flight delays, the East Coast crew (consisting of Joaquim Goes, Helga Gomes, and Jinghui Wu from Columbia University, Charles Kovach from NOAA STAR, and myself from the Tzortziou Bio-Optics Lab) safely crossed the Atlantic Ocean and the Equator and arrived in Cape Town, South Africa for the BioSCape field campaign. BioSCape is an international collaboration between NASA and other U.S. and South African organizations to study the rich biodiversity and ecology of the Greater Cape Floristic Region (GCFR), across terrestrial and aquatic domains.
Our group is one of the few aquatic-focused science teams on the project, with the goal of mapping phytoplankton functional types (PI: Wu) and carbon fluxes (PI: Tzortziou) from air- and space-based optical remote sensing. Our study has three sampling areas: St. Helena Bay, Walker Bay, and Algoa Bay, which we will be visiting over the next few weeks in conjunction with targeted overflights of NASA aircraft equipped with two state-of-the-art hyperspectral spectrometers, AVIRIS-NG and PRISM....
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