NUI Galway Cruise Stations 2012
Description
87 sample stations including CTD, CTD-SAPS, Plankton Net, Boxcore, SAPS and ROV taken on board the RV Celtic Explorer in April 2012 during the BioDiscovery and Deep Ocean Ecosystems Survey. A large instrument package called a CTD is the standard workhorse of oceanographers for acquiring water column profiles. It is called a CTD because as a minimum it measures electrical Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (pressure). The plankton net is a funnel-shaped, fine-meshed net that is towed through the water. The net concentrates the plankton from hundreds of gallons of water that pass through it. A simple net can be constructed to capture microscopic plankton. A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is an unoccupied underwater robot that is connected to a ship by a series of cables. These cables transmit command and control signals between the operator and the ROV, allowing remote navigation of the vehicle.
Resources
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Description |
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8 |
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http://data.marine.ie/downloads/NUIG/CE12006_CSV.zip |
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http://data.marine.ie/downloads/NUIG/CE12006_Shapefile.zip |
Tags
- environment
- salinity
- sea-temperature-station
- conductivity
- water-salinity
- oceans
- phytoplankton
- sea-temperature-measurement
- underway
- oceanography
- sea-surface-temperature
- geoscientificinformation
- depth-(pressure)
- sea
- sea-temperature
- celtic-voyager
- ireland
- temperature
- celtic-sea
- surface-underway
- electrical-conductivity
- zoology
- ctd
- zooplankton
- oceanographic-geographical-features