Instrument: SonTek CastAway-CTD

Acronym:

CastAway-CTD

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Description

The Sontek CastAway-CTD (manufactured by Xylem) is a handheld castable instrument that provides instantaneous profiles of temperature, salinity, and sound speed. Each cast is referenced with both time and location using its built-in GPS receiver. The CastAway software displays profiles of the casts in addition to mapping the locations of the data collection points. The CastAway-CTD has a 5 Hz response and sampling rate, accurate to 0.1 (PSS-78), 0.05° Celsius.

Conductivity range is 0 to 100,000 µS/cm.
Temperature range is -5° to 45° Celsius.
Pressure range is 0 to 100 decibars.

Further specs and information can be found on the manufacturer's website: https://www.xylem.com/en-us/brands/wtw/wtw-products/castaway-ctd/

Datasets

Dataset Name	Brief Description
Alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) from water samples collected at coral reefs in the equatorial central Pacific in 1973, 2012, 2015, and 2018	Alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) from sea water samples collected at coral reefs from equatorial central Pacific in 1973, 2012, 2015, and 2018
B. elegans cold water coral lab culture: CTD
CTD data from Bongo plankton net tows	CTD up-cast data
Larval fish abundance from Bongo plankton net tows	Larval fish abundance from Bongo plankton net tows
Larval Sebastes Diet and Morphometric Data
Larval Sebastes Otolith and Morphometric Data
USVI Time-series	USVI Time-series

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Instrument: SonTek CastAway-CTD