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Biologic Sampling Apparatus
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Figure 18. Net closure device invented by Baron Jules De Guerne and Paul Dumaige and first tested in the east Atlantic in 1886 in 31 meters waters depth.Left: closed. Right: open.
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Figure 19. Closing device for Chun and Petersen net first devised by GiuseppePalumbo, commanding officer of the VETTOR PISANI. In the course of its aroundthe world oceanographic cruise of 1882-1885, the idea to develop a helical closing device for
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Figure 20. Horizontal shutter plankton net first invented by Prince Albert I ofMonaco in 1889. Left: view of the assembled unit. Right: the messenger totrigger operation of the unit. This net would be lowered to a specified depthand then a mess
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Figure 21. Universal sampling apparatus invented by Otto Pettersson in 1904.This instrument measured temperature, the velocity and direction of the current, and also collected plankton. Pettersson first tested this instrument in 1904 in the Skagerr
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Figure 21 (continued.) Detail of the device which connects the end of the netwith the wire. Left: descending. Right: ascending.
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Figure 22. The Thor ring-trawl net used in deep water. Devised by JohannesSchmidt in 1905 and used for carrying out studies on board the THOR. This netwas used to capture fish in very deep water. It was first tested in watersbetween 1040 and 1090
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Figure 23. Kofoid net devised by Charles A. Kofoid of the University of California at Berkeley in 1909. Above: in the functioning position. Lower left: indescent. Lower right: upon ascent. This net sampling system was meant toguarantee the vertic
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Figure 24. Clarke-Bumpus plankton gathering device. Invented in 1939 byGeorge L. Clarke of Harvard University and Dean F. Bumpus of Woods HoleOceanographic Institution. This device was used on the Atlantis. Top: view ofthe apparatus. Middle: vie
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Figure 25. Net WP2 as recommended by working group Number 2 of theScientific Committee on Oceanic Research in 1966. Plan of the net on left.Specimen collector on the right. This net was meant to collect zooplankton fromthe upper 200 meters of the
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Figure 26. Sigsbee gravity driven plankton trap. Devised by Lieutenant Charles D. Sigsbee of the USN on the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship BLAKE in 1880. It was meant to collect live specimens of plankton between precisely specifieddepths. It was
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Figure 27. Frame for Chun and Hensen quantitative net closing mechanism. Left: view of the unit. Above: detail view.
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Figure 28. Biological sampling device of Apstein net circa 1891. The net andsystem of this device was designed for fresh-water lake studies. This net wasderived from the studies of Victor Hensen on quantitative methods of studyingthe sea. It was
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Figure 29. Marsh net devised by C. Dwight Marsh in 1893. Left: view of theapparatus before closing. Upper right: view of the closed mechanism. Lowerright: detail of the closing mechanism. This net was used for plankton sampling in lakes. It was
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Figure 30. Closing device of the Apstein closing net. Left: open. Right:closed. Devised by Carl Apstein in 1903 and used in the North Sea. This wasused for quantitative plankton studies and was first used in the North Sea in1903.
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Figure 31. Vertical net devised by Prince Albert I of Monaco in 1903 and usedon the PRINCESSE-ALICE II in the Bay of Quiberon for quantitative sampling ofplankton the same year.
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Figure 32. Plankton bottle devised by James I. Peck of Williams College,Massachusetts, and Nathan R. Harrington of Columbia University, New York,in 1896. It was used to collect plankton, both animal and vegetable, at various depths. It was first u
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Figure 33. Kofoid plankton sampling bucket devised by Charles A. Kofoid ofthe University of California at Berkeley in 1905. It was used on board thevessel LOMA out of San Diego. This bottle was used to acquire a volume of water in which the plankt
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Figure 34. Brouardel simple bottle for sampling the organic productivity of thesea. Devised by Jean Brouardel of the Oceanographic Institute of Paris andEmile Rinck of the Laboratory of Applied Chemistry of Paris in 1956.Left: open. Right: closed.
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Figure 35. Double automatic sampling bottle of Brouardel devised by JeanBrouardel and Emile Rinck in 1958. This bottle was used to measure organicproductivity in the Mediterranean Sea in the vicinity of Monaco onboard the WINNARETTA-SINGER. Left:
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Figure 36. Double sampling bottle of Brouardel. Left: open. Right: closed.This type of bottle was used in 1959 for measuring organic productivity in theMediterranean Sea in the vicinity of Monaco on board theWINNARETTA-SINGER in the vicinity of Mo
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