IMOS - National Mooring Network - National Reference Station (NRS) Esperance Mooring

The NRS Esperance Mooring (IMOS platform code: NRSESP) is one of a series of national reference stations designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in Australian coastal ocean waters. The mooring is located at Latitude:-33.9, Longitude:121.8. The mooring was retrieved in December 2013, and not redeployed. Physical sampling will be undertaken at each of the reference stations on a monthly basis (The last sample at this site was collected in July 2013). The physical samples will be analysed for nutrients, plankton species, both visibly and genetically, and pCO2. Biological sampling will greatly improve Australia's capability to meet its obligations for ecosystem based management and allow many researchers the opportunity to investigate possible long term changes in ecology that are likely to be linked to climate variability and wide scale validation of remotely sensed (satellite) observations of plant biomass.

埃斯佩兰斯国家参考锚定站（NRS Esperance Mooring，海洋综合观测系统（Integrated Marine Observing System，IMOS）平台编码：NRSESP）属于一系列专为监测澳大利亚近岸海域特定海洋学现象而设立的国家参考观测站。该锚定站的地理位置为纬度-33.9、经度121.8，于2013年12月完成回收，后续未重新部署。所有国家参考观测站均按月度频次开展采样，本站点的最后一次采样采集于2013年7月。所采集的样本将针对营养盐、浮游生物种类（采用目视与基因检测两种手段）以及二氧化碳分压（pCO2）开展分析。此类生物采样工作将大幅提升澳大利亚履行基于生态系统管理相关义务的能力，同时为广大科研人员提供研究契机，以探究可能与气候变率相关的长期生态变化，并对遥感（卫星）观测获取的植物生物量数据开展大范围验证。