Instrument: Shipboard Incubator

Instrument Short Name:
Instrument Description:

A device mounted on a ship that holds water samples under conditions of controlled temperature or controlled temperature and illumination.

PI supplied instrument name: Flow-through plexiglass incubator
Dataset-specific description

Particulate nitrate (PN), carbon (PC) and nitrate (NO3-) uptake was obtained by spiking 500 mL of seawater with 15N-NH4Cl at no more than 10% of ambient nitrate concentration and incubated for 8 hours.