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Institute for Sea Research

Instruments

Many advanced technologies such as sensors and acoustic meters are used to answer scientific questions.  Applied instruments are mostly developed in-house by the marine technology department. The latest techniques enable communication with Argos satellites. However, some 'old-fashioned' tools will always remain.

Automated weighing machine
Automated weighing machine
In-house | The automated weighing machine has the capacity to weight 9000 crucibles a day, with a precision of a tenth of a milligram.
GPS bird tracking technology
GPS bird tracking technology
Third-party | Advanced technologies in bird tracking with loggers and transmitters enable us to study behaviour of birds on large scales in time and place.
Breakforce machine
Breakforce machine
Third party | This machine is used to measure the force that is needed to break the shells of bivalves and gastropods.
Sensor technology
Sensor technology
In-house | Innovative sensor technology -logging instruments- for studying ecology, physics & landscape formation.
Bird colour-rings
Bird colour-rings
Third-party | Bird ringing is very important for the study of migratory birds and their conservation. It allows to track the movements and traits of shorebirds.
Flumes and wave mesocosms
Flumes and wave mesocosms
In house | Flume systems to answer new research questions on the functioning and stability of intertidal and sub-tidal ecosystems.
GPS-GSM trackers
GPS-GSM trackers
Third-party | These trackers collect detailed information on the whereabouts and behavior of juvenile spoonbills (GPS position registered every 10 minutes).
Underwater basin
Underwater basin
In house | 12 underwater basins to study the development of ecosystems colonising the different experimental concrete and stone structures.
WATLAS bird tracking
WATLAS bird tracking
In house | Receiving mast for picking up signals of birds flying around (TOA principle). Signals are transmitted directly to storage servers.
Box Core
Box Core
In house | The Box Core is a sampling device used for intertidal benthic surveys of the Wadden Sea to collect large amounts of sediment and benthos.
Long Core
Long Core
Third party | During low tide benthos samples are taken with a corer down to 35 cm deep into the sediment and sieved in the field.
Hyperspectral meter
Hyperspectral meter
Third-party | By measuring the colour of the seawater the quantity of floating particles and plankton can be determined.
Sediment sieve
Sediment sieve
Third party | Sieving is a simple technique for collecting samples. Within the SIBES project about 4500 benthos and sediment samples have been collected annualy.
Rubber boats
Rubber boats
Third party | Within the SIBES project parts of the Wadden Sea (6000) are sampled by using 3 or 4 rubber boats. A part of the sampling has to carry out on foot.
Acoustic profile meter
Acoustic profile meter
Third-party | The acoustic profile meter is used to measure the direction of the water at different dept by means of sound signals.
Valve Gape monitor
Valve Gape monitor
In-house | The valve gape monitor can run and store data for months on only a few alkaline batterie. It measures the electric field between to micro coils.

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