Deep water instrument for microbial identification, quantification, and archiving

Author

Pargett, Douglas M. ; Jensen, Scott D. ; Roman, Brent A. ; Preston, Christina M. ; Ussler, William ; Girguis, Peter R. ; Marin, Raul ; Birch, James M. ; Scholin, Christopher A.

Author_Institution

Monterey Bay Aquarium Res. Inst., Moss Landing, CA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

23-27 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A deep ocean robotic platform capable of in situ microbial identification and quantification at depths to 4000 m has been developed. The platform is a free benthic lander, containing a low pressure microbial instrument and deep ocean sampling systems that can monitor and collect raw seawater from multiple sources, then decompress the raw seawater for processing by the detection instrument. This has enabled the autonomous collection, processing, and archiving of microbes from multiple sites. This allows for direct, time correlated comparison of different microbial populations along with the seawater physical and chemical composition.

Keywords

microorganisms; mobile robots; oceanographic techniques; seawater; autonomous microbes collection; deep ocean robotic platform; deep ocean sampling systems; deep water instrument; free benthic lander; low pressure microbial instrument; microbial archiving; microbial identification; microbial populations; microbial quantification; seawater chemical composition; seawater physical composition; Batteries; Couplings; Instruments; Ocean temperature; Vents; Water resources; autonomous sampling; deep ocean; ecogenomic sensor; in situ instrumentation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Oceans - San Diego, 2013

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Type

conf

Filename

6741066