SAMPLING EQUIPMENT

 

The RRS Discovery is the research vessels we used to study the Indian Southern Ocean.

Here are examples of equipment used during the cruise:

 

Data acquisition

Plankton net Bowers-Connelly Megacorer Pelagra SAPS

Filtration unit Titanium CTD CTD / Rosette sampling system Gravity Corer Sea Soar

 

Megacorer on deck
Close up of megacorer
Megacorer going out to sea.
     
Megacorer back on deck
Sediment core
Slicing sediment core into sections

 

 
Last updated 4/02/08