SGER: Testing a Moored Automated Water-Sampling System in Bering Strait

9906559福克纳这一小型探索性研究赠款项目将使MITESS 12位0.5升自动海水采样系统能够在北极机会系泊地部署12个月。总体目标是证明在北极条件下全年系泊自动水样的可行性。以前还没有这样的系统被用于北极部署，尽管目前缺乏数据限制了对许多北极生物地球化学和环流问题的了解。系泊自动化水样采集设备的应用代表了一种新的方法，可以弥补已有的研究空白。现在是测试系泊采样系统的时候了，以满足即将于2001年开始的陆架盆地相互作用实地方案的目标

9906559 FAULKNER This Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER) project, will enable deployment of a MITESS 12-position 0.5-liter automated seawater sampling system on an Arctic mooring-of-opportunity for twelve months. The overall objective is to demonstrate the viability of year-round moored automated water sampling under Arctic conditions. No such system has been previously adapted for Arctic deployment, even though data paucity presently limits understanding many Arctic biogeochemical and circulation issues. Application of moored automated water-sampling devices represents a new approach to an established research gap. Testing the moored sampling system now is timely in order to address objectives of the upcoming field program of Shelf Basin Interactions (SBI) initiative to begin in 2001