Tara expedition

Schooner Tara.
History
French EnsignFrance
Name
  • Antarctica
  • then Seamaster
  • currently Tara
BuilderSFCN Villeneuve-la-Garenne
In service1989
HomeportLorient, France
General characteristics
TypeSchooner
Displacement130 t (130 long tons; 290,000 lb)
Length36 m (118 ft)
Sampling devices and working areas on-board SV Tara are shown from the vessel's [a] side-view, [b] bird's-eye-view of the deck, and [c] inside-view. They consist of the [1] Continuous Surface Sampling System [CSSS]; [2] Rosette Vertical Sampling System [RVSS]; [3] wet lab and storage in liquid nitrogen; [4] High Volume Peristaltic pump [HVP-PUMP]; [5] dry lab; [6] oceanography engineers data acquisition and processing area; [7] winch; [8] video imaging area; [9] storage areas at room temperature; [10] storage areas at +4 °C and −20 °C; [11] MilliQ water system and AC-s system; [12] diving equipment, flowcytobot and ALPHA instruments; and [13] storage boxes. The flow of seawater from the continuous surface sampling system to the dry lab is shown in blue.[1]
Courtesy of the Tara Oceans Expedition

The Tara expedition is an oceanic research expedition.

  1. ^ Pesant, S., Not, F., Picheral, M., Kandels-Lewis, S., Le Bescot, N., Gorsky, G., Iudicone, D., Karsenti, E., Speich, S., Troublé, R. and Dimier, C. (2015) "Open science resources for the discovery and analysis of Tara Oceans data". Scientific data, 2(1): 1–16. doi:10.1038/sdata.2015.23.