Instrument: Isaacs-Kidd Midwater Trawl

Dataset: 
West Antarctic Isoscape Data
Instrument: 
Isaacs-Kidd Midwater Trawl
Instrument Short Name: IKMT
Community Standard Description
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L22/current/NETT0071/)
Instrument Description:

A trawl with a pentagonal mouth opening and a dihedral depressor vane as part of the mouth opening. IKMTs come in various dimensions (refer to individual dataset documentation).

The original IKMTs were 10 foot (304 cm) and 15 foot (457 cm) at the mouth. The 10 foot IKMT net was 31 feet (9.45 m) in length (Wiebe and Benfield 2003).

PI supplied instrument name:
Dataset-specific description

Zooplankton samples from the L. M. Gould cruise were obtained with open oblique hauls of a 505 µm mesh net from ~150 m to the surface using a 1.8 m Isaacs-Kidd midwater trawl.