Instrument: Neuston Net

Acronym: Neuston Net

External Identifier: skos:closeMatch: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L22/current/NETT0110/

Description

Neuston Nets are nets that collect zooplankton that live in the top few centimeters of the sea surface (the neuston layer). This specialized net has a rectangular mouth opening usually 2 or 3 times as wide as deep, i.e. 1 meter by 1/2 meter or 60 cm by 20 cm, with sometimes hollow piping construction to aid in flotation. They are generally towed half submerged at 1-2 kts from the side of the vessel on a boom to avoid the ship's wake.

Datasets (8)

Dataset Name	PI-Supplied Description	PI-Supplied Name
Larval fish counts and larval tuna counts with corresponding plankton net type and geographic coordinates from R/V Roger Revelle cruise RR2201 (BLOOFINZ-IO, January-March 2022) in the Argo Basin region off NW Australia	the neuston was a square single-frame coarse-mesh net (1 m2, with 1000-µm mesh)	neuston net
Glaucus atlanticus sample locations, museum voucher and GenBank accession numbers from in a global sample set (Neuston Phylogeny project)		Neuston Net
Ichthyoplankton density and plankton displacement volume data collected using NOAA SEAMAP Neuston Plankton Nets on the NSF RAPID Plankton Cruises in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico in 2017-2018	NOAA SEAMAP Neuston Plankton Net (1 x 2m rectangular frame, 950um mesh width).	NOAA SEAMAP Neuston Plankton Net
Neuston data from the F/V Sea Eagle and F/V Frosti salmon trawl cruises in the Northeast Pacific from 2000-2002 as part of the U.S. GLOBEC program (NEP project)	A neuston net with a 1-m wide by 0.3-m high mouth and 0.333-mm mesh wasutilized for collection of all zooplankton samples.	Neuston
Location data for genetic samples of nudibranch Glaucus atlanticus from global gyre systems (Neuston Phylogeny project)		Neuston Net
Abundance of zooplankton identified by major taxa from R/V Atlantis, R/V Knorr, R/V Melville AT21-04, KN197-08, MV1110 in the Amazon River plume; NE coast of South America from 2010-2012 (ANACONDAS project)	Occasionally at shallow depth stations, a double oblique tow using a rectangular frame (0.8 x 1.2 m) single net with 202-micron mesh was performed in surface waters	Neuston Net
Size-fractionated zooplankton biomass in upper 150m or 500m from R/V Atlantis, R/V Knorr, and R/V Melville cruises AT21-04, KN197-08, and MV1110 in the Amazon River plume; NE coast of South America from 2010-2012	Occasionally at shallow depth stations, a double oblique tow using a rectangular frame (0.8 x 1.2 m) single net with 202-micron mesh was performed in surface waters	Neuston Net
Size-fractionated zooplankton gut fluorescence for determination of grazing from R/V Atlantis, R/V Knorr, R/V Melville AT21-04, KN197-08, MV1110 in the Amazon River plume; NE coast of South America from 2010-2012 (ANACONDAS project)	Occasionally at shallow depth stations, a double oblique tow using a rectangular frame (0.8 x 1.2 m) single net with 202-micron mesh was performed in surface waters	Neuston Net