Instrument: Isaacs-Kidd Midwater Trawl

Acronym:

IKMT

External Identifier:

» skos:closeMatch http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L22/current/NETT0071/

Description

A trawl with a pentagonal mouth opening and a dihedral depressor vane as part of the mouth opening. IKMTs come in various dimensions (refer to individual dataset documentation).

The original IKMTs were 10 foot (304 cm) and 15 foot (457 cm) at the mouth. The 10 foot IKMT net was 31 feet (9.45 m) in length (Wiebe and Benfield 2003).

Datasets

Dataset Name	Brief Description
2018 Ross Sea Crystal Krill Grazing	2018 Ross Sea E. crystallorophias grazing rates
2018 Ross Sea Zooplankton Abundance: IKMT	2018 Ross Sea Zooplankton Abundance: IKMT
2018 Ross Sea Zooplankton Abundance: Ring net	2018 Ross Sea Zooplankton Abundance: ring net
CICLOPS Event Log
NH1106 Midwater Trawl	Descriptive data from Isaacs-Kidd midwater trawls (IKMT) from NH1106, Guaymas Basin.
Salp genome and transcriptome	Antarctic salp genome and RNAseq transcriptome
Salp sample log	scientific sampling event log
West Antarctic Isoscape Data	C and N isotope data for zoo- and phytoplankton from west Antarctica

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Instrument: Isaacs-Kidd Midwater Trawl