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Parameter: COLLECTOR

Dataset: 
Vent Parasite Dissection Data
Parameter: 
investigator
Master parameters information
Short Name:
 investigator
Short Description:
 investigator
Official Name:
 investigator
No Data Value:
 nd
Description:
 

This is the person who has some responsibility for the data.  Can be the ultimate responsibility, i.e. Principle Investigator or Chief Scientist, or can be a scientist who is responsible for one kind of data, or data collection or analysis or identification.  This is not  the person who wrote the numbers or observations in the log. That is 'recorder'. Some of the previously labelled 'person' designations are now 'investigators'.

Dataset-parameters information
Supplied Name: 
COLLECTOR
Supplied Units: 
unitless
Datatype: 
String
Conversion Necessary: 
no
Conversion Utility: 
No Data Value: 
nd
Description: 
Name of the person who collected the sample. When samples were collected from an HOV, the collector is usually the primary science observer on the dive. For ROV dives, the collector is the person who retrieved, processed, and stored the sample aboard ship. Missing data identifier NR (not recorded).