Instrument: Sediment Trap - Particle Interceptor

Instrument Short Name: Sed Trap - Part Int
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/33/)
Instrument Description:

A Particle Interceptor Trap is a prototype sediment trap designed in the mid 1990s to segregate 'swimmers' from sinking particulate material sampled from the water column. The prototype trap used 'segregation plates' to deflect and segregate 'swimmers' while a series of funnels collected sinking particles in a chamber (see Dennis A. Hansell and Jan A. Newton. September 1994. Design and Evaluation of a "Swimmer"-Segregating Particle Interceptor Trap, Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 1487-1495).

PI supplied instrument name: PIT sediment trap
Dataset-specific description

Vertically sinking particulate carbon fluxes were measured at 50, 150, and 300 meters using surface-tethered cylindrical sediment traps (0.0125 m2 cross-sectional area; materials and construction as described in McDonnell and Buesseler, 2012).