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Greetings one and all !
My name is Warren Currie. I am completing my stint as graduate student at the University of Guelph, which is in Guelph ("Goo-Elf"), Ontario, Canada in the Department of Zoology studying marine plankton ecology and oceanography with Professor John Roff. My research involves the measurement of the growth and spatial distribution of near-shore plankton communities in the Gulf of St. Lawrence using multifractal analysis. I have put an electronic version of the poster we gave at Liège in my Multifractal Analysis in Marine Systems page. Enjoy.

For my field research, I spent two summers on a boat called the Ammodytes (see note below), but during the summer of 1996 worked on DFO's graciously loaned J Willie Deraspe (a wonderful little research boat) off of Mont-Joli and Rimouski in the province of Quebec, Canada. My thesis involves the description of the multiscale patterns of zooplankton distribution collected using a Focal Technologies Optical Plankton Counter (OPC) coupled to a Seabird Electronics Conductivity Temperature Depth probe (CTD) [see above or click here for a better view] as well as using an RDI Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) to quantify the distribution of biomass.

You can also find a listing of my (hopefully) current publications and conference presentations on my Publications Page of my CV.

NOTE: I would like at this point mention to that we did NOT sink our boat during the summer of 1995...sinking by definition implies the boat being UNDER the surface of the water. This is not the case. As you can see, the boat is clearly sitting on the rocky shoal. Of course if we were to put it INTO the water now, it would sink, but that's not the point now is it? You just have to love working on the sea.

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