1.3.1 |
TOOLS OF THE OCEANOGRAPHER: Equipment: Sampling Tools |
A. Taking Samples of the Marine Environment | |
1. Water Samplers • Van Dorn Bottle • Nansen Bottle • Niskin Bottle • JZ Bacterialogical Bottle • Surface Sample Bottle | 2. 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). |
3. Bottom Samplers • Ekman Grab • Petersen Grab • Soft Bottom Modified Petersen Grab • Wash Bucket • Bottom Corer | 4. 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 |
Ruler used in most images for scale | |||||||
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1. Water Samplers |
Van Dorn Bottle | |||||||
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Nansen Bottle | |||||||
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Niskin Bottle | |||||||
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JZ Bacterialogical Bottle | |||||||
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Surface Sample Bottle | |||||||
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2. Messengers |
Messengers | |||||||
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3. Bottom Samplers |
Ekman Grab | |||||||
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Petersen Grab | |||||||
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Soft Bottom Modified Petersen Grab | |||||||
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Wash Bucket | |||||||
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Bottom Corer | |||||||
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4. Animal and Plant Samplers |
Standard Plankton Net | |||||||
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Deck Plankton Collector | |||||||
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Folsom Plankton Splitter | |||||||
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Sedgewick-Rafter Plankton Counting Chamber | |||||||
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Succession Plates | |||||||
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Transects | |||||||
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Quadrats | |||||||
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Biological Dredge | |||||||
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Beach Seine | |||||||
pulling the beach seine viewing the beach seine catch |
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Otter Trawl | |||||||
End of otter trawl 70' net. Otter trawl catch |
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Isaacs-Kidd Midwater Trawl | |||||||
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(Revised 8 July 2004) |