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Welcome to the Coastal Ocean Laboratory
for Optics and Remote Sensing (COLORS)
led by Dr. Heidi Dierssen, Assistant Professor in Marine Sciences and Geography, at the University of Connecticut Avery Point. Our current projects involve optics and remote sensing of the coastal zone in nearby regions of Long Island Sound and more distant areas of Florida Bay, Monterey Bay and the Southern Ocean. We are developing algorithms to use remotely sensing imagery to quantify phytoplankton and CDOM in optically complex waters and benthic habitats in optically shallow waters. We are also involved in theoretical and laboratory experiments involving backscattering and particle size distributions. Our laboratory has a variety of equipment for measuring optical and physical properties of the water column that can be loaned out to students or investigators.
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