Instrument Adapters
Vertical Profiler System
VPS Profiler and VPS Winch platform, VPS Instrument Package and Vertical Profiler Platform, have been deployed at Barkley Upper Slope thus far.
The Vertical Profiler System (VPS) is a mobile instrument platform. It consists of a seafloor base unit and a tethered float. A winch on the base unit raises and lowers the float, which bristles with instrumentation for monitoring:
•salinity
•temperature
•dissolved gases and nutrients
•currents
•plankton and fish concentrations, and
•marine mammal movements
The VPS is designed for installation at a depth of 396m. Cable spooled on the platform is long enough for the float to extend to the surface, allowing scientists to capture data throughout the water column.
Tempo-Mini
The Tempo-Mini was deployed this September 2011 at Main Endeavour Vent Field.
This Tempo-Mini instrument adapter integrates the following instruments on a single platform:
•Barionets, Tempo-Mini Barionet 1 and Tempo-Mini Barionet 2
•Video camera, Video Camera on Tempo-Mini
•Camera Lights, Camera Lights on Tempo-Mini
•Anti-biofouling device, Optode Biofouling Device on Tempo-Mini
•Temperature probes, Temperature Probes on Tempo-Mini
•Aanderaa optode Oxygen Sensor, Aanderaa Optode on Tempo-Mini
•CHEMINI (Total Fe) System, CHEMINI Iron on Tempo-Mini
Barionets on Tempo-Mini
The Barix Barionets, Tempo-Mini Barionet 1 and Tempo-Mini Barionet 2 , are universal data collection and communications devices which will be connected to Tempo-Mini Tempo-Mini.
