Instrument: McLane PARFLUX Mark 8 Sediment Trap

Dataset: 
OFP Primary Particle Flux
Instrument: 
McLane PARFLUX Mark 8 Sediment Trap
Instrument Short Name: McLane PARFLUX Mark 8
Community Standard Description
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/33/)
Instrument Description:

The Mark 8 Sediment Trap is a time-series instrument that autonomously collects the flux of settling particles on an operator-defined schedule. The wide top funnel accumulates particulate specimens into individual sample bottles. The cone interior is natural polyethylene. Deploys from a stand-alone mooring or a large high-tension vertical array.

McLane Mark 8 Data Sheet (PDF)
McLane website: http://www.mclanelabs.com/master_page/product-type/samplers/sediment-traps

PI supplied instrument name: Parflux conical sediment traps
Dataset-specific description

In 1989, the 1.54m2 traps were replaced by the newly introduced 0.5m2 Parflux conical sediment traps (McLane Labs, Falmouth MA) having a rotating carousel to allow for multiple samples to be collected during a single deployment. The introduction of the Parflux trap (PARFLUX Mark 7G-13, Mark 7G-21 and currently Mark 78G-21) enabled the sampling period to be reduced from a nominal two month duration to a nominal two week duration.