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Parameters Measured


Parameter Depth Range (m) Analytical Procedure
1. Continuous Measurments
Depth (Pressure) 0-4750 Pressure transducer on Sea-Bird CTD package
Temperature 0-4750 Thermistor on Sea-Bird CTD package
Conductivity (Salinity) 0-4750 Conductivity sensor on Sea-Bird CTD package, standardization with Guildline AutoSal using Wormley seawater standard
Dissolved Oxygen 0-4750 YSI or Sea-Bird sensor on Sea-Bird CTD package with Winkler standardization
Fluorescence (Chloropigment) 0-4750 Sea-Point chlorophyll fluorometer on Sea-Bird CTD package with discrete chlorophyll calibration
Beam Transmission 0-1000 Sea-Tech 25 cm path beam transmissometer, (discontinued)
2. Optical Measurments
Incident Irradiance (PAR) Surface LI-COR LI-1000 and Biospherical 2 π Collector
Surface Downwelling Irradiance Surface Biospherical Surface Reference Sensor PRR-610
Underwater Irradiance (PAR) 0-175 Biospherical Profiling Natural Fluorometer 4 π Collector (discontinued)
Upwelling Radiance and Downwelling Irradiance 0-175 Biospherical Profiling Reflectance Radiometer PRR-600
Downwelling irradiance 0-3 Satlantic Tethered Spectral Radiometer Buoy (TSRB)
Absorption and Beam Attenuation 0-250 WET Labs AC-9 connected to Sea-Bird Sea-Cat package
Fast Repetition Rate Fluorometry 0-250 Chelsea FASTtracka Dynamic Photosynthetic Fluorometer
3. Water Column Chemical Measurements
Oxygen 0-4750 Winkler Titration
Dissolved Inorganic Carbon 0-4750 Coulometry
Total Alkalinity 0-4750 Automated Gran Titration
pH 0-4750 Potentiometry, Spectrophotometric
Nitrate Plus Nitrite 0-4750 Autoanalyzer
Soluable Reactive Phosphorus (SRP) 0-4750 Autoanalyzer
Silicate 0-4750 Autoanalyzer
Low Level Nitrate Plus Nitrite 0-200 Chemiluminescence
Low-Level SRP 0-200 Magnesium-induced Coprecipitation
Dissolved Organic Carbon 0-4750 High Temperature Catalytic Oxidation
Dissolved Organic Nitrogen 0-1000 U.V. oxidation of total nitrogen
Dissolved Organic Phosphorus 0-1000 U.V. oxidation of total phosphorus
Particulate Carbon 0-350 Mass Spectrometry
Particulate Nitrogen 0-350 Mass Spectrometry
Particulate Phosphorus 0-350 High Temperature Combustion
Particulate Biogenic Silica 0-175 Base Hydrolysis with Amonium Molybdate Colorimetry
4. Biomass Measurments
Chlorophyll a & Pheopigments 0-175 Fluorometric Analysis using 10-AU
Chlorophyll a, b & c 0-175 Fluorometric Analysis using TD-700
Pigments 0-175 High Performance Liquid Chromatography
Phycoerythrin 0-175 Fluorometric Analysis using TD-700
Adenosine 5'-Triphosphate 0-350 Firefly Bioluminescence
Bacteria and Cyanobacteria 0-175 Flow Cytometry
Mesozooplankton 0-175 Net tows, elemental analysis
5. Carbon Assimilation and Particle Flux
Primary Production 5-125 "Clean" 14C Incubations
Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorus & Silica Flux 150 Free-Floating Particle Interceptor Traps
6. Currents
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler 0-300 Hull Mounted, RDI #VM-150
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler 0-4750 Lowered ADCP (discontinued)
7. Instrument Towfish (discontinued)
Pressure (Depth) 45 Sensor on Sea-Bird package
Temperature 45 Thermistor on Sea-Bird package
Conductivity (Salinity) 45 Conductivity sensor on Sea-Bird package
Zooplankton 45 Optical Plankton Counter
Fluorescence 45 WetLabs SeaStar fluorometer on CTD package
8. Bow Intake System
Temperature 3 Sea-Bird remote temperature sensor
Conductivity (Salinity) 3 Sea-Bird temperature & conductivity sensors inside the thermosalinograph package
pCO2 3 Gas equilibration, infrared detection (discontinued)
Fluorescence (Chloropigment) 3 Fluorometric Analysis using 10-AU
9. Moored Instruments
Inverted Echo Sounder Network (Dynamic height) 4750 Acoustic telemetry, CTD calibration (discontinued)
Sequencing Sediment Traps (Particle Flux) 2800, 4000 Parflux MK7-21
Physical-Biogeochemical Mooring 0-1000 see HALE-ALOHA Overview