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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