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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to thank Teo Milos, Mickey Jackson, Chidinma Onumadu, and

Rehan Khalid for their senior-year project contributions in the end-cap design.

We also would like to thank Iain Grundke, Edward Luy, and James Smith, from

Dartmouth Ocean Technologies Inc. for advice in the early stage of the proj­

ect. This work was funded in part by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund

(CFREF) through the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) and Transforming Climate

Action (TCA), the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)

of Canada, and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation John Evans Leadership

Fund. We would like to thank Ruth Musgrave, Ruby Yee, and Mathieu Dever for

their contribution of fluorometry data from their transect study to this work. We fur­

ther acknowledge the funding sources of their contribution; the transect study

was funded in part by NSERC, the OFI, and the Trottier Family Foundation. The

fieldwork in Halifax Harbor was supported in part by the Carbon to Sea Initiative,

a multi-funder effort incubated by Additional Ventures, and the Thistledown

Foundation. We would like to thank Claire Normandeau, Jessica Oberlander, and

Lindsay Anderson for their help in analyzing RWT samples in the laboratory. We

would like to acknowledge support from Douglas Wallace in providing scientific

guidance and access to the infrastructure and materials at the CERC.OCEAN labo­

ratory. The maps provided in Figure 4 and Figure S2 contain information licensed

under the Open Government Licence – Canada.

AUTHORS

Kyle Park (kyle.park@dal.ca), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Dariia Atamanchuk, Department of

Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Aaron MacNeil and

Vincent Sieben, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Dalhousie

University, Halifax, Canada.

ARTICLE CITATION

Park, K., D. Atamanchuk, A. MacNeill, and V. Sieben. 2025. The PIXIE: A low-cost,

open-source, multichannel in situ fluorometer applied to dye-tracing in Halifax

Harbor. Oceanography 38(2):66–72, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2025.309.

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