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| TOOLS OF THE OCEANOGRAPHER: Equipment: Messengers |
| A. Taking Samples of the Marine Environment | |
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Water Samplers • Van Dorn Bottle • Nansen Bottle • Niskin Bottle • JZ Bacterialogical Bottle • Surface Sample Bottle |
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Messengers Most of the water samplers can be sent to a particular depth and then "triggered" to take the water sample by a "messenger". This is also the case with several other types of samplers (bottom, organism). |
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Bottom Samplers • Ekman Grab • Petersen Grab • Soft Bottom Modified Petersen Grab • Wash Bucket • Bottom Corer |
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Animal and Plant Samplers • Plankton: Standard Plankton Net, Deck Plankton Collector, Folsom Plankton Splitter, Sedgewick-Rafter Plankton Counting Chamber • Succession Plates • Transects • Quadrants • Biological Dredge • Beach Seine • Otter Trawl • Isaacs-Kidd Midwater Trawl |
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