Welcome to the UNOLS Marine Technician Resources page. Below are links to References, Best Practices, Tips, Tools and Tricks of the Trade for some systems installed on UNOLS Research Vessels.
Choose a system from the left-hand Menu and see what is available.
Is there something you would like to see? Do you have something to add? Send any ideas - big or small - to Alice Doyle (alice@unols.org).
| System | Document | Author | Date | Description |
| ADCP | ||||
| The ADCP and UHDAS | A Short Course on the ADCP and UHDAS | Hummom | Jan2012 | A presentation the NOAA MT Refresher Training |
| UHDAS | UHDAS & CODAS Documentation | Hummon | 10Jun11 | |
| UHDAS Technical Documentation | Technical documentation on how to run the system | |||
| Additional ADCP Info | Calculating ocean velocity, system failures, signatures of bad data | |||
| UHDAS Installations | ||||
| RDI | RDI Library & Reference Center | RDI | ||
| Online Tutorials & Training | RDI | |||
| VMDAS User's Guide | ||||
| Hydrographic Doppler Sonar System (HDSS) | About HDSS | |||
| HDSS Manual | ||||
| HDSS Troubleshooting | ||||
| Transducer Install Prep | 75kHz Transducer Anti-Fouling Paint Treatment | Willis | 2006 | Transducer Anti-fouling Paint Treatment |
| 75kHz Transducer Anti-Fouling Paint Treatment | ||||
| Interlux Primocon Product Sheet | ||||
| Interlux Trilux Product Sheet | ||||
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| Bottom Sampling | ||||
| Box Coring | Box Coring Overboarding Procedure | Wheacroft | ||
| Using a Pinger with the Box Core | ||||
| Multicore | Multicorer in action - video new! | Schmidt Ocean Institute | Mar 2013 | |
| Multicorer with Real-time camera, CTD and Water Sampling for the UNOLS Community new! | Fornari, Bernhard, Edgcomb | Feb 2013 | ||
| Tech Discussions | ||||
| Box coring and Bongo Nets | 2010 | |||
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| CTD/Water Column Sampling | ||||
| CTD Sensor Calibration Interval Recommendations new! | URI | Mar 2013 | A table listing suggested calibration intervals | Sea-Bird Seminar at NOAA 2013 training new! | Introduction to Profiling Equipment | Sea-Bird | Feb 2013 |
| Set-up and Acquiring Data | Sea-Bird | Feb 2013 | ||
| Samplers, Sampling, Cabling and Deployment | Sea-Bird | Feb 2013 | ||
| Troubleshooting | Sea-Bird | Feb 2013 | ||
| Before, During and After the Cruise | Sea-Bird | Feb 2013 | ||
| SBE911 Boot Camp, The Complete Course | Murphy | Jan 2012 | A presentation the NOAA MT Refresher Training | |
| 2011 RVTEC CTD Troubleshooting Training | Swartz | 2011 | ||
| CTD Troubleshooting | Willis | 1998 | ||
| Sea-bird | Sea-Bird Electronics Website | Sea-bird | ||
| Sea-Bird Sensors Specs & Manuals Page | Sea-bird | |||
| GO-SHIP | GO-SHIP Hydro Manual | GO-SHIP | 2010 | |
| Reference Quality Water Sample Data: Notes on Data Acquisition | ||||
| Notes on CTD/O2 Data Acquisition and Processing Usins Seabird Hardware & Software | ||||
| CTD Oxygen Sensor Calibration | ||||
| CalCOFI | Seasoft for Windows 7 Operations | CalCOFI | 2010 | |
| CTD Post-cast Tasks | ||||
| CTD General Practices | ||||
| Dissolved Oxygen | ||||
| Fluorometry FAQs | ||||
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| Data Acquisition Systems | ||||
| NOAA SCS | User's Manual Version 4.5.1 | NOAA | 2011 | |
| Training Presenation | NOAA | 2010 | ||
| OSU | OSU DAS System Overview | OSU | 2010 | General Info about OSU DAS |
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| Data and Data Tools | ||||
| UNH CCOM/JHC Research Tools in Ocean Mapping | Course Material | Schwehr | 2011 | |
| Screencast Videos | Schwehr | 2011 | ||
| Course Website | Schwehr | 2011 | ||
| Tech Discussions - new! | ||||
| Data Syncing/Data Distribution Media | 2011 | |||
| NMEA Simulator | 2010 | |||
| Meta Data for Sensor Values | 2010 | |||
| 1000yr storage media | 2010 | |||
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| Data Repositories | ||||
| R2R | ||||
| Data Catalogs | ||||
| RV Instrument Profiles | ||||
| National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) | ||||
| National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) | ||||
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| Echosounders/Subbottom Profilers | ||||
| Introduction to Acoustics | Gonsalves | Jan 2012 | A presentation from the NOAA MT Refresher Training | |
| Knudsen Engineering Technical Support | Knudsen | |||
| Knudsen Documentation Downloads | ||||
| SIO SGG Knudsen 320B/R Guide | SIO | |||
| SIOSSEIS Data Processing Examples | SIO | |||
| Tech Discussions - | ||||
| 3.5kHz Transducers for Chirp 3260 | 2010 | |||
| Shipboard Transducer Removal and Installations in Water | 2010 | Top | ||
| Fleet Broadband | ||||
| FBB Firmware Upgrade | Gagne | Mar 2013 | Steps to upgrade FBB Firmware | |
| Stratos FBB Best Practices Manual | ||||
| Hidden Maintenance Page | ||||
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| HiSeasNet | ||||
| HiSeasNet Wiki | ||||
| FAQ Equipment | ||||
| FAQ_Troubleshooting | ||||
| HiSeasnet over FBB | ||||
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| Meteorological Systems & Data Acquisition | ||||
| A Short Course | A Short Course on Automated Underway Meteorological Observation | Smith and Wolfe | 2012 | A presentation from the NOAA MT Refresher Training |
| SAMOS webpage | ||||
| SAMOS Handbook | ||||
| True Wind (earth-referenced) computation | Detailed information on correct computation of true wind including codes, test data & results from 3 programming languages. | |||
| Tech Discussions | ||||
| Airmar PB200 anemometer | 2011 | Met Packages | 2011 | |
| Anemometer Calibration and SBE43 | 2011 | |||
| RH Sensor Troubleshooting | 2011 | |||
| Consensus on RMYoung Anemometer? | 2010 | Top | ||
| MOCNESS | ||||
| Running a MOCNESS | ||||
| MOCNESS Checklist | ||||
| MOCNESS Cast Sheet | ||||
| B.E.S.S. Website | ||||
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| Moorings | ||||
| Dragging for a Lost Mooring | ||||
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| Multibeam | ||||
| 10 Commandments of Multibeam- new! | Odom Hydrographic Systems Inc. | Nov 2007 | ||
| Multibeam Advisory Committee (MAC) | Multibeam Advisory Committee Website | |||
| Multibeam Technical Resources | Technical Resources, Cookbooks and Software Tools | |||
| Technical Reports | Technical Reports (acoustic noise tests, system configs, etc) | |||
| Sound Speed and it's application to Multibeam Data | Zacharias | Jan 2012 | A presentation from the NOAA MT Refresher Training. | |
| Introduction to Single and Multibeam | Hauser | Jan 2012 | A presentation from the NOAA MT Refresher Training. | |
| UNOLS Multibeam Systems | Chayes | A list of the Multibeam systems in the fleet. | ||
| Latest EM System Operating Software | Must have existing username and password. | |||
| General Information | ||||
| Data Sheets | ||||
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| Potential Fields Pool | ||||
| Potential Fields Pool Website | ||||
| Gravimeter | Gravimeter Best Practices | |||
| Gravity Base Station Database | BGI | |||
| Gravity Base Station Database | UTEP | |||
| Potential Fields Pool Equipment | UTEP | |||
| Magnetometer | ||||
| Tech Discussions | ||||
| Gravity Benchmark Database | 2010 | |||
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| Radioisotope & Hazardous Chemical Safety & Handling | ||||
| SWAB Program - UMTL | UMTL | |||
| Hugh R Sharp Chemical Hygeine Plan | Deering | |||
| Research Vessel Safety Standards | ||||
| Chapter 9 - Haz Materials | ||||
| Chapter 10 - Radioactive Materials | ||||
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| Salinity/Salinometer | ||||
| GO-SHIP Hydro Manual | GO-SHIP | 2010 | ||
| Drawing Salts | CalCOFI | |||
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| SWAP | ||||
| OSU SWAP Website | Martin | |||
| WHOI SWAP Website | ||||
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| UCSW System | ||||
| Tech Discussions | ||||
| Sea Surface Temperature Sensor | 2011 | |||
| Flow-Through Fluorometers | 2011 | |||
| UCSW Piping | 2010 | |||
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| Winch and Wire | ||||
| Terminations | 0.322 Poured Mechanical Termination | WHOI | WHOI procedure for poured 0.322 wire termination | |
| 0.322 with Cable Grip (Chinese Finger) | Willis | 1998 | ||
| Tips & Tricks for Using PMI Finger Grip | Willis | 2007 | ||
| 0.322 with Cable Grip (Chinese Finger) | CalCOFI | 2010 | ||
| Hot-Glue/Heatshrink splice | Rowe | 2006 | ||
| 0.680 EM | ||||
| 0.680 FO | ||||
| UNOLS Winch & Wire Manual - Chapter 5 Rope & Cable Terminations | UNOLS | |||
| A Simple Splicing Technique for Underwater Cables | Wilson & Lucyk | 1994 2004 | ||
| Clevis Fitting Termintation | Esmet | |||
| 0.322 Clevis Fitting Termination video clip | ||||
| Cable Grip(Chinese Finger) Installation` | ||||
| Wire Rope Terminations | Certex | |||
| Wire Lubrication | Wire Lubrication | Griner | 1997 | |
| Wire Lube Tips | Butler | 2011 | ||
| Pooled Winches | UNOLS East Coast Winch Pool | WHOI | The UNOLS East Coast winch pool website. | |
| Tech Discussions | ||||
| Wire Lube System | 2011 | |||
| Water in a Cable | 2011 | |||
| Slip Rings | 2011 | |||
| Cerrobend | 2011 | |||
| Birth of Hot-Glue Splices | 2010 | |||
| Gel Wrap Splice | 2010 | |||
| Overboarding block for 1/4in Hydro Wire | 2010 | |||
| Termination 0.680 Trawl Wire | 2010 | |||
| EM Cable Terminations for CTDs | 2010 | |||
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| Recommended/Interesting Reference Material | ||||
| Parker O'ring Handbook | Parker Hannifin Corporation | 2007 | ||
| General Oceaography | Properties of the Ocean | Sherman | Jan 2012 | A presentation from the NOAA MT Refresher Training |
| Dynamics of the Ocean | Sherman | Jan 2012 | A presentation from the NOAA MT Refresher Training | |
| Surface Waves | Sherman | Jan 2012 | A presentation from the NOAA MT Refresher Training | |
| Basic Electronic | Basic Electronics, A Short Course | Sekafetz | Jan 2012 | A presentation from the NOAA MT Refresher Training |
| Machinery's Handbook | Industrial Press | 2008 | Available in HC & ebook | |
| Naval Architecture for Non-Naval Architects (SNAME) | Benford | 1999 | ||
| Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers | Avallone & Baumeister | |||
| Navy Salvor's Handbook | Navy | 1999 | ||
| The Art of Electronics | Horowitz &Hill | |||
| Principles of Underwater Sound | Urick | |||
| Collecting Zooplantkon | Wiebe | Describes methods for collecting Zooplankton (including MOCNESS) | ||
| From the Hensen net toward four-dimensional biological oceanography | Wiebe & Benfield | Methods of Oceanographic Biological Sampling from 1800s to present | ||
| Ocean Data Rat | Pinner | |||
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