Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Deployment Day 2008

This year Deployment Day was held on April 2, 2008 in Bedford, NS. It was a clear sunny and day with fairly high offshore wind.










Using a Sechii disk. Turbidity readings hovered around the 13-14 foot mark.
















Lab Line water collection bottle for collecting discrete water samples directly into a Nalgene collection bottle.





Eckman dredge is used to obtain a discrete benthic sample.















The Alpha or Van Dorn water collection sampler is used to collect a discrete water sample at a known depth. Unlike the Niskin sampler, it cannot be ganged together on a single line.