This paper describes a number of custom sampling and measurement systems designed at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Inc. (HBOI) over the past several years. These underwater tool systems have been developed in response to specific problems for which a standard approach had not been developed or the previously employed methods and hardware did not provide sufficiently quantitative results. Some of the designs are improvements or simplifications of prior systems while others provide somewhat novel solutions to marine and limnological sampling problems. This paper is primarily concerned with hardware-scientific use and results will be reported elsewhere.
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This manuscript is available at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ and may be cited as: Tusting, R. F., Tietze, R. C., Reisenbichler, K. R., Lee, D. S., McDonald, I. R., & Fisher, C. R. (1996). Development of special-purpose benthic geo-chemical and biological samplers at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution. In Oceans '96 MTS/IEEE: prospects for the 21st century: conference proceedings, 23-26 1996, Broward County Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Vol. 2. (pp. 1019-1025). Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: Oceans '96 MTS/IEEE Conference Committee. doi:10.1109/OCEANS.1996.568374
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1154.