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TAPS-8 Real-Time Biological Data
Biophysical Oceanographic Mooring:   Zooplankton Abundance

  • The EcoFOCI team developed a mooring system for acoustic zooplankton monitoring using a TAPS-8 (Tracor Acoustic Profiling System).
  • Summer deployment on surface mooring M2 in the southeast Bering Sea incorporates near-real-time data transmission using iridium satellite modem.
  • Data (see below), including temperature, salinity, pressure and fluorometer, are sent every two hours in Summer months from the mooring to our laboratory.
  • TAPS-8 was developed from TAPS-6 (D.V.Holliday and D.Doan, Tracor, Inc.)
Diagram of function of TAPS 8 Acoustic Profiling System and link to tech pageBiophysical Mooring System Development
Map of M2 mooring location in Bering Sea
  temp, sal, pressure chlorophyll spectra 18m
2009 thumbnail of temp,sal,pressure data from TAPS-8 on Mooring 2, Bering Sea, 2009 TAPS8 data, Chlorophyll count at 56m, Bering Sea, 2009
2008 thumbnail of temp,sal,pressure data from TAPS-8 on Mooring 2, Bering Sea, 2008 TAPS8 data, Chlorophyll count at 56m, Bering Sea, 2008
2007
2006 Temperature and salinity 2006 at M2

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Link to PDF diagram of EcoFOCI TAPS-8 mooring at M2.