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In April 2008 the ANIMATE network Observatories became part of the EuroSITES European Ocean Observatory Network.
Data shown here and subsequent data are available through the EuroSITES website www.eurosites.info
The ANIMATE site will not be updated further.
Sensor Deployment
One of the aims of the projects was to develop a cost effective mooring system which would provide a suitable platform for all the multi-disciplinary sensors.
At the beginning of the project 3 moorings were deployed at each site.
1. A titanium frame positioned in the eutrophic zone carrying the Fluorimeter
Nitrate analyser, CO2 sensor, and temperature, salinity and pressure sensor.
Below this at 150m were ADCPs, measuring direction and speed of the current.
2. A mooring with a surface buoy communicating in near real-time, via satellites, sending temperatures and salinities from up to 12 sensors positioned at depths of between 10m and 1000m.
3. A mooring with sediment traps and current meters.
Mooring diagrams are included for each deployment, and can be found in the About section for each deployment.
Several design changes were considered as experience grew with the original moorings and in 2004 the CIS mooring was deployed as just one mooring, which, if successful, will be cheaper and quicker to service.
Sensors Used
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| Temperature, Salinity and Depth |
| Microcat Seabird SBE 37-IM, some,but not all, also with a pressure sensor. This model can communicate via an inductive modem with the surface buoy, as well as logging on board the readings made.
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| MTD a micro Temperature and Depth logger used on some moorings when not enough microcats were available. These do not have inductive communication capacity.
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| Current direction and speed
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| Aanderaa Recording Current Meter(RCM) models 7 and 8. |
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RD Instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers, Workhorse and Longranger models.
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| Fluorescence
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| HOBI Labs HydroScat-2 and WETLabs FLNTUSB
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| Nitrate concentration
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| EnviroTech LLC NAS-2E Nutrient Analyser
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| Carbon Dioxide concentration
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| Sunburst Sensors LLC, SAMI Carbon Dioxide sensor
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| Particulate Flux-McLane Sediment Trap
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| Particulate Flux-Meerestechnik Trap
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This equpment not deployed as part of Mersea deployments
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