Publication Date:
2022-10-20
Description:
© The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Gomez-Ibanez, D., Kukulya, A. L., Belani, A., Conmy, R. N., Sundaravadivelu, D., & DiPinto, L. Autonomous water sampler for oil spill response. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10(4), (2022): 526, https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10040526.
Description:
A newly developed water sampling system enables autonomous detection and sampling of underwater oil plumes. The Midwater Oil Sampler collects multiple 1-L samples of seawater when preset criteria are met. The sampler has a hydrocarbon-free sample path and can be configured with several modules of six glass sample bottles. In August 2019, the sampler was deployed on an autonomous underwater vehicle and captured targeted water samples in natural oil seeps offshore Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
Description:
This work was supported by the United States Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement under contract number E18PG00001.
Keywords:
Oil spill
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Water sampling
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Autonomous underwater vehicle
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Autonomous survey
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Organic analysis
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Environmental impact assessment
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Rapid response
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Plume tracking
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Article
