Adam Comeau

Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University
1355 Oxford Street
PO BOX 15000
Halifax NS  B3H 4R2

Phone: (902) 494-3655
   Fax: (902) 494-3877
Email: adam.comeau@dal.ca

Education Background

• BSc - Marine Biology (with first class honours and a minor in Statistics), Dalhousie University
• MSc - Oceanography, Dalhousie University

Research Interests
I am currently studying patterns of fluorescence from new autonomous oceanographic platforms. Fluorometers are a ubiquitous tool for biological oceanographers. They are typically used to study distributions of phytoplankton biomass but can also be used to study physiological characteristics of phytoplankton. I am taking advantage of this physiological information and studying its variability with data from an oceanographic mooring in the North West Arm of Halifax and another ~30km off the coast of Halifax. 

Comeau, A.J., S.E. Craig, M. Babin, M. Lewis, F. Bruyant, and J.J. Cullen - 2008 - Temporal variations of photoacclimation - Ocean Optics, XIX. Proceedings of SPIE

A.J. Comeau, M.R. Lewis, J.J. Cullen, R.S. Adams, J. Andrea, S. Feener, S.D. McLean, K.S. Johnson, L.J. Coletti, H.W. Jannasch, S.E. Fitzwater, C. Moore, A.H. Barnard - 2007 - Monitoring the Spring bloom in an ice-covered fjord with the land/ocean biogeochemical observatory (LOBO) - MTS/IEEE Oceans 2007 doi:10.1109/OCEANS.2007.4449185

Shadwick, E.H., H. Thomas, A. Comeau, S.E. Craig, C.W. Hunt and J.E. Salisbury - 2010 - Air-Sea CO2 fluxes on the Scotian Shelf: Seasonal to multi-annual variability - Biogeosciences, 7, 3851-3867, doi:10.5194/bg-7-3851-2010