Instrument: Gravity Corer

Instrument Short Name: Gravity Corer
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/51/)
Instrument Description:

The gravity corer allows researchers to sample sediment layers at the bottom of lakes or oceans. The coring device is deployed from the ship and gravity carries it to the seafloor. (http://www.whoi.edu/instruments/viewInstrument.do?id=1079).

PI supplied instrument name: Mono-corer
Dataset-specific description

Sediment cores were collected using a Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) mono-corer, specifically designed to collect surface sediment samples with minimal disturbance of the sediment-water interface which was suspended from the ODF (Ocean Data Facility) CTD-rosette.