Instrument: Laser Optical Plankton Counter

Dataset: 
LOPC
Instrument: 
Laser Optical Plankton Counter
Instrument Short Name: LOPC
Community Standard Description
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/352/)
Instrument Description:

Laser Optical Plankton Counter (LOPC)

PI supplied instrument name: Laser Optical Plankton Counter
Dataset-specific description

A Brooke-Ocean Laser Optical Plankton Counter (LOPC) for plankton size spectra from 0.1 mm to 35 mm was deployed for and underway SeaSciences Acrobat surveys with the instrument package undulating through the water column between the 25-60 m isobaths provided near-surface to near-bottom (5-10 m off bottom inside the 40 m isobath and 10-20 m off bottom beyond the 40 m isobath) surveys.