Lab-O-Nord

Northern Research Infrastructure Inventory

Undersea optical frame (CTD FastCat 49)

Description

Set of instruments, primarily active optics, for measuring the physical and inherent optical properties of the water column. It is deployed within the upper hundred meters of the water column, when the ship is stationary.

Technical specifications

IOP, absorption, attenuation, DTP, backscattering, CTD, Chl-a fluorescence, CDOM fluorescence, RT mode available

Resource person

Guislain Bécu
Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon, 1045, av. de la Médecine, local 2064
418 656 2131, poste 4880
guislain.becu@takuvik.ulaval.ca

Conditions of use

Training required. Generally unavailable in the Spring, Contact the person responsible for the equipment.

ROOM OR LOCATION

AFFILIATION

  • Québec Océan

MANUFACTURER/BRAND

  • Sea-Bird Scientific

MODEL

  • FastCat 49

IN OPERATION SINCE

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