A rosette water sampler is an essential piece of oceanographic equipment. It allows real-time controlled water collection at specific depths and/or water class targets. It is also a very cool piece of engineering. Yesterday, Dave Wells (UNCW) and Bill Davis (CFCC) helped us figure out where we can plug in an ECO chlorophyll-a fluorometer. This will hopefully remove the need for our sampling protocol that involved multiple CTD units alternately being attached and detached (and repeat) from the rosette while we are underway.
Seasick Suanda 