Instrument: Microscope-Optical

Dataset: 
FL Multispecies Otolith Data
Instrument: 
Microscope - Optical
Instrument Short Name:
Community Standard Description
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/LAB05/)
Instrument Description:

Instruments that generate enlarged images of samples using the phenomena of reflection and absorption of visible light. Includes conventional and inverted instruments. Also called a "light microscope".

PI supplied instrument name: Leica DMLB microscope
Dataset-specific description

Otoliths were read along the longest axis at 400X magnification (with the exception of S. barracuda lapilli which were read at 1000X magnification) through a Leica DMLB microscope and with the aid of the digital camera and Image-Pro Plus software.