Editing Long-term Ecosystem Observatory (section)

{{short description|Project off the coast of New Jersey, United States}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2016}}
[[File:Rostrataluk.jpg|thumb|Glass eel on the online ''in situ'' microscope at the LEO project]]
[[File:Centropristis striata underwater.jpg|thumb|Sea bass image taken off New Jersey, USA]]

The '''Long-term Ecological Observatory''' ('''LEO''') is a project off the coast of [[New Jersey]], United States, which monitors the processes in the ocean with online [[Information technology|IT]] systems, spearheaded by the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at [[Rutgers University]]. Already installed are sensors for temperature, [[salinity]], [[Transmittance|transmission]], light, light [[attenuation]], [[fluorescence]], pressure and velocity.

With improvements in Internet infrastructure it will be possible to observe and evaluate [[plankton]] (like [[copepod]]s) or [[juvenile fish]] (like [[Atlantic herring]]) online with a quantitative ''in situ'' microscope, known as the [[ecoSCOPE]], in order to get more insight into some of the enigmatic life histories of ocean organisms, like [[predator–prey interaction]] between [[herring]] and [[copepod]]s, the [[Eel story]], or [[hypoxia (environmental)|oxygen depletion]].