A more scientific assignment was given to us students this morning. We are to describe the different types of equipment on board. My task is to describe the Van Veen grab.
The grab is send to the bottom of the sea to check the type of sediment at the given station before descending the boxcorer and the gravity corer (these will be described in other blogs). The reason why this is done is to make sure that the sediment at the given station is of such quality that it won't damage the two later corers. These (box- and gravity corer) are more sensitive to hard sediment.
The sediment samples from the Van Veen are used for a project on foraminifers made by myself and the lovely Kathrine. A more elaborate report on the subject will be available later this June.
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