Mei Sato and Jeannette Bedard, two UVic EOS graduate students were awarded loans under the 2010 Nortek Student Instrument Award program.
In June Jeannette deployed an Nortek AquaDopp Z-cell, a Nortek Vector ADV, and an RDI 300 kHz ADCP on the north slope of the Fraser Ridge in the Strait of Georgia, to investigate how down slope currents may determine where silicate sponges grow.
Mei Sato, seen here recovering a CTD on the John Strickland on Sept 30, deployed a Nortek Z-cell (an AquaDopp with a zero cell (head height) velocity measurement) and a 300kHz RDI ADCP on a bottom frame (see photo) and a Nortek Vector ADV at a depth of 40m on a taut wire mooring.
Both moorings were located a few hundred metres south of the VENUS Node in Saanich Inlet to allow comparisons with the ZAP echo-sounder traces of zooplankton migration. Mei will be analyzing the data in search of velocity fluctuations caused by vertically migrating zooplankton.
