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Figure 33. Kofoid plankton sampling bucket devised by Charles A. Kofoid ofthe University of California at Berkeley in 1905. It was used on board thevessel LOMA out of San Diego. This bottle was used to acquire a volume of water in which the plankton would be counted for quantitative studies of life in thesea. This instrument closely resembled a Pettersson bottle. (Image credit: Oceanographic Museum of Monaco | P. Roggero)