Preliminary results from POLMAR III (April 13-18, 1978) (SUROIT III) ATP, primary production and respiration rates in zooplankton. Complément à la Communication du Groupe Ecophysiologie du Centre Océanologique de Bretagne (SAMAIN et al.)

ATP, primary production and respiration rates in seston, respiration rates in zooplankton have been investigated after the spill by "AMOCO CADIZ". Gross primary production seems to be similar to the normal situation. The rate of photosynthesis is lower at the "AMOCO CADIZ" station than at any of the others. Respiration rates are surprisingly high at the surface. ATP concentra­tion exhibit an homogeneous pattern, zooplankton respiration are similar to the data obtained in Peruvian upwelled waters or in zooplankton culture. A more detailed computation of data will be necessary before concluding.Des mesures de l'ATP, de la production primaire et des taux respi­ratoires du seston, des taux respiratoires du zooplancton ont été effectuées après le naufrage de l"AMOCO CADIZ". La production primaire moyenne est du même ordre de grandeur que dans la situation normale. La vitesse de photosyn­thèse est inférieure à la station proche de l"AMOCO CADIZ" comparativement à toutes les autres stations. Les taux respiratoires sont curieusement élevés en surface. La concentration en ATP est homogène sur la zone, les taux respi­ratoires du zooplancton concordent avec les observations effectuées dans l'upwelling péruvien ou sur des cultures de copépodes. Un traitement plus détaillé des données est nécessaire avant d'en déduire des conclusions

Community Based Research Network: Opportunities for Coordination of Care, Public Health Surveillance, and Farmworker Research

Introduction: The lack of aggregated longitudinal health data on farmworkers has severely limited opportunities to conduct research to improve their health status. To correct this problem, we have created the infrastructure necessary to develop and maintain a national Research Data Repository of migrant and seasonal farmworker patients and other community members receiving medical care from Community and Migrant Health Centers (C/MHCs). Project specific research databases can be easily extracted from this repository. Methods: The Community Based Research Network (CBRN) has securely imported and merged electronic health records (EHRs) data from five geographically dispersed C/MHCs. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our data aggregation methodologies, we also conducted a small pilot study using clinical, laboratory and demographic data from the CBRN Data Repository from two initial C/MHCs to evaluate HbA1c management. Results: Overall, there were 67,878 total patients (2,858 farmworkers) that were seen by two C/MHCs from January to August 2013. A total of 94,189 encounters were captured and all could be linked to a unique patient. HbA1c values decreased as the number of tests or intensity of testing increased. Conclusion: This project will inform the foundation for an expanding collection of C/MHC data for use by clinicians for medical care coordination, by clinics to assess quality of care, by public health agencies for surveillance, and by researchers under Institutional Review Board (IRB) oversight to advance understanding of the needs and capacity of the migrant and seasonal farmworker population and the health centers that serve them. Approved researchers can request data that constitute a Limited Data Set from the CBRN Data Repository to establish a specific research database for their project