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Figure 51

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Description

Figure 51. A Birge-Ekman bottom sampling device. This sampler was described byby the American limnologist Edward Birge in 1921 and used in lacustrine studies. Top: open. Bottom: closed. This instrument was very similar to the Ekmanbottom sampler. Only the closing device was different.

Credit

Oceanographic Museum of Monaco

Photographer

Y. Berard

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space
History of Oceanography Collection
The Early Instruments - Collections of the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco
Biologic Sampling Apparatus

Keywords

Oceanography
Historical instruments