Oceanic ecosystem time-series programs: Ten Lessons Learned

Abstract

Another HOT day in Hawaii. Shown are a few of the many instruments used to collect samples during monthly Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) cruises to Station ALOHA. THIS PAGE. Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) rosette sampler equipped with 24 sampling bottles and additional sensors for oxygen, chlorophyll a, and nitrate. NEXT PAGE, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. Free-drifting sediment traps, recovery of bottom moored instrumentation, recovery of spar buoy, recovery of in situ incubation experiment, deployment of bottom moored McLane sediment trap. Photographs by Paul Lethaby. © 2010 by The Oceanography Society.