approximately 2 ecm were removed from the samples before processing.
The plankton was filtered through No. 1 Whatman paper and
about two grams were transferred to a 1.5-inch stainless steel
planchet,
ship.
dried with an infrared lamp,
and then counted aboard
The remainder of the plankton sample was preserved for
future use.
Amounts of plankton were determined volumetrically.
A 50 ml portion of sea water and plankton was poured into a
Buchner funnel with No. 1 Whatman filter paper.
The amount of
plankton remaining on the filter paper was determined by subtracting the amount of filtrate from the original amount of sea
water and plankton (50 ml).
After returning to Eniwetok Marine
Biological Laboratory the shipboard estimates of the volumes of
the plankton samples were revised.
The corrected volumes were
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calculated by multiplying the dried sample weight of the individual samples by the ratio of the average estimated volume to
the average dry weight.
Finally, volumes in ml were converted
directly to wet weights in grams.
Bathythermograph casts were made by the ship's crew at each
Station during the cruise for the purpose of defining temperature
change with depth.
Water Samples:
bucket and at 25,
Samples were collected at the surface by
50, 75 and 100 meters by means of a Nansen
Water bottle (Pig. 4).
The surface water samples were processed
aboard ship and the other samples at the EMBL.
One liter of surface water was passed through a Millipore
filter using Millipore AA paper.
counted.
The filter paper was saved and
Prom the filtrate two 100 ml samples were processed
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