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Technology

Transportation to the Study Area

  • Research Vessels
  • Manned Submersibles
  • Remotely Operated Vehicles
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Deep-Towed Vehicles

Collecting Organisms

  • Trawls
  • Plankton Nets
  • Epibenthic Sledges
  • Cod-end Aquarium
  • Benthic Grabs
  • Sediment Corers
  • Hand Collection
  • Niskin Bottles
  • Traps

Observing and Counting

  •  Video Plankton Recorders
  • Optical Plankton Counters and Laser OPCs
  • Time-Lapse Cameras
  • Sediment Profile Imaging
  • Underwater Video Profiler
  • Autonomous Lander Vehicles
  • Quadrat Sampling
  • Satellite Remote Sensing
  • Flow Cytometer
  • Microscope
  • High Definition Video

Measuring Physical Properties

  • Conductivity Temperature Depth Measures
  • Acoustic Doplar Current Profiler
  • Side-Scan Sonar
  • Standard and Multi-Frequency Echo Sounders
  • Bottom-Penetrating Sounders
  • Towed Arrays
  • Satellite Remote Sensing

Studying Movement

  • Acoustic Tags
  • Archival Tags
  • Geolocating Archival Tags
  • Pop-up Satellite Archival Tags
  • Smart Position and Temperature Spot Tags
  • Side-Scan Sonar
  • Standard and Multifrequency Echo Sounders
  • Sampling Nets
  • Satellite Remote Sensing

Identifying

  • Traditional Identifiction Methods
  • Molecular Techniques

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