Instrument: Neutrally Buoyant Sediment Trap

Acronym: NBST
External Identifier: skos:broadMatch: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/33/

Description

In general, sediment traps are specially designed containers deployed in the water column for periods of time to collect particles from the water column falling toward the sea floor. The Neutrally Buoyant Sediment Trap (NBST) was designed by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The central cylinder of the NBST controls buoyancy and houses a satellite transmitter. The other tubes collect sediment as the trap drifts in currents at a predetermined depth. The samples are collected when the tubes snap shut before the trap returns to the surface. (more: http://www.whoi.edu/instruments/viewInstrument.do?id=10286)

Dataset NamePI-Supplied DescriptionPI-Supplied Name
Carbon, biogenic Silica, and mass fluxes from Neutrally Buoyant Sediment Trap (NBST) deployments in the North Pacific on R/V Falkor FK170124 in Jan-Feb 2017
Carbon and nitrogen flux measurements from the Sargasso Sea from 2013-2014.Used to measure particles NBST
Particle bulk d15N values from EXPORTS cruises SR1812 on R/V Sally Ride and RR1813 on R/V Roger Revelle in August to September 2018neutrally buoyant sediment traps (NBST)
Particle d15N values of amino acids from EXPORTS cruises SR1812 on R/V Sally Ride and RR1813 on R/V Roger Revelle in August to September 2018neutrally buoyant sediment traps (NBST)
Particulate Organic Carbon and Nitrogen (POC/N) from R/V New Horizon cruise NH1008 in Monterey Bay, near MBARI buoy M1 (36.747?N, 122.022?W); 2010 (GATEKEEPERS project)Neutrally Buoyant Sediment Trap
Carbon, Nitrogen, biogenic silica, thorium-234, and mass fluxes from upper ocean sediment traps at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) site in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean during RRS Discovery cruise DY077 in April of 2017NBST, neutrally buoyant sediment trap, WHOI
Sediment trap gel images of settled particles that were collected from the Sargasso Sea between 2013 and 2014.Used to measure particles NBST
Sediment trap fluxes of mass, elements and phytoplankton pigments from VERTIGO cruises KM0414, ZHNG09RR from the Hawaiian Islands HOT Site, NW SubArctic Pacific Ocean K2 Site, 2004-2005 (VERTIGO project)Neutrally Buoyant Sediment Trap