R/V ENDEAVOR INVENTORY OF SHARED-USE INSTRUMENTATION 1. General Ship's Equipment Copier Cannon NP-1020 12 kHz bathymetric system, UQN hull transducers, Raytheon PTR-105 transceiver EPC Model 9800 Thermal graphic recorders XBT-includes Bathy Systems digitizers, launcher (PC based processing) Lab freezers (2) and refrigerator Bottom-finding pingers (3 Williams, 2 Benthos) 2. Shipboard Scientific Computer Data collection System This 486 based system logs a wide variety of scientific and navigational data through a custom VisualBasic logging and display program. Data monitors can be located in various parts of the vessel. The system logs the following data through NMEA-0183 data connections: Trimble NavTrack DGPS receiver (Primary Navigation device) Magellan 5000 DGPS receiver (Secondary Navigation device) Trimble Tans-Vector 3 axis GPS Northstar 800/8000 LORAN Sperry Mk37 Gyrocompass (both compasses logged) Depth and Velocity data from the EDO doppler log Environmental data logged in NMEA-0183 format includes: Sea Bird SBE-21 Sea Surface Salinograph Turner model 10AU Flow Through Fluorometer Depth as recorded by the CHIRP Sonar system The following are logged through an R.M.Young model 26700 Programmable Translator R .M. Young Aerovane type wind speed/direction instruments (port and Starboard) R. M. Young Pt resistance air temperature sensor (01 deck sensor platform) R. M. Young Relative Humidity Sensor (01 deck sensor platform) R. M. Young Barometric Pressure sensor (main deck) Pt Resistance water temperature sensors mounted at 5 M depth in transducer well and at 1 M depth in hull mount amidships. Eppley Lab model PIR Infrared sensor mounted on jackstaff forward Eppley Lab model PSP solar radiation sensor mounted on jackstaff forward Rebroadcast of data in NMEA-0183 data format or through FTP via the Ethernet 3. Computer Systems Networked PC computer system connecting all Data Collection and Processing computers (386SX and 486-66 machines) on Lantastic® ethernet® 2 gByte capacity DAT tape drives, SCSI connected to network 4 1.4 gB removable SCSI disk drives on network DEC Microvax III color workstation dedicated to satellite imagry Telebit Trailblazer modems for data transfer via INMARSAT 2 Color Printers for Satellite Image Reproduction Hewlett-Packard LaserJet III CDROM writer in iso9006 format 4. Hydrographic Equipment Niskin bottles (1.7, 5, 10, 30 liter) Niskin Teflon Go-Flo® 10 liter Teflon ® lined sample bottles G-O Sterile water samplers Salinometers (2 Guildline Autosal 6000A units, 1 AGE Minisal) Spectrophotometer (with sipper cell, 10 cm cell, analog recorder) Millipore deionized water system Wire angle indicators Gateway 486-66 Computer for CTD and MOCNESS data processing 5. CTD Systems: Sea Bird 9 11+ CTD system 6000 meter underwater units with redundent Temperature and Conductivity sensors, Oxygen sensor, Sea-Tech Fluorometer, Sea-Tech 25 CM Transmissometer, Modular Quartz Pressure Transducer. Extra A/D data inputs are available. CTD deck unit (2) Slip rings, Meridian 4 Channel Mercury contact (4 each) Gateway Pentium CTD data computer with Sea Soft® collection and processing software System is available with 12 or 24 place Sea Bird Carousel Water sampler Sea Bird SBE-25 Sealogger CTD Profiler Oxygen sensor PC based acquisition and processing software Sea Tech Fluorometer 3,000 M max depth Sea Tech Transmissometer 5,000 M max depth Modular Depth Sensors in Ranges: 750, 3000, 6000 meters Unit is available with Sea Bird 12 or24 place Carousel water sampler unit 6. Geological Equipment EG&G X-Star CHIRP SONAR System with dedicated SPARC 1+ workstation DAT recording system 12 transducer hull mounted wideband array Depth logged to Scientific Data System Click here to see CHIRP IMAGES Varian Proton magnetometer (analog recorder and digital logging) Bottom samplers (gravity corer, Smith MacIntyre,Van Veen sampler, Box corer) 7. Radioisotope laboratory van (A Fixed Fee is charged for deployment & cleanup) Equipped with: Liquid Scintillation Counter "pancake" GM counter Fume Hood 8. MOCNESS Biological Net Sampling System BESS 1 Meter2 Multi-Sampler Net System with 155µ and 330µ nets with CTD sensors PC based data acquisition Computer Sea Tech Fluorometer 3,000 M max depth Sea Tech Transmissometer 5,000 M max depth Acoustic Altimeter 9. RDI 150 kHz Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler Hull mounted transducer 386 PC control and data processing computer Suite of data display software 10. Additional Support Equipment Available Simrad/Taiyo Automatic VHF Radio Direction Finder ARGOS GONIO Pulsed ADF receiver Full Computer Network and Interconnection System Linking All Major Areas of the Vessel with Video, Analog and Digital Capability 10 baseT Twisted Pair EtherNet Tektronix Time Domain Reflectometer for Testing E-M Cables Return to ENDEAVOR Home Page