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Improvements To Sampling From The Research Vessel Ira C, Mary Jane Perry

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

The University of Maine's Darling Marine Center is awarded a grant to equip the 42-ft Ira C., the Center's largest vessel, with a well instrumented CTD, including optical sensors and a small array of sampling bottles plus a winch with conducting cable so that CTD work from the Ira C. no longer needs to depend on users bringing their own CTD and lowering by hand. This proposal is to expand the environments and variables within effective reach of the University of Maine's marine laboratory, the Ira C. Darling Marine Center (the Center) in midcoast Maine. The Center is within a …