Data collected on board the R/V Vantuna by the various MSE high schools is available for research and analysis by all participating schools.

     The Vantuna carries a SBE 25 Sealogger (Sea-bird Electronics, Inc.), a delicate instrument with probes for measuring various characteristics of the water, including temperature, salinity, pH, and dissolved oxygen.  Commonly called a "seabird", this instrument can accumulate large amounts of very accurate data without actually collecting a water sample.  The instrument is slowly lowered through the water column to the bottom.  Every half-second the probes record and store data, which is later downloaded into a computer.  For information on the units of the Seabird data, click here.

     Available here are files of data collected for the Marine Science Experience, as well as a selection of data files collected by other programs.  They are arranged by date and location of sampling.  If you have Excel^® software, you can open the Excel^® version of each file as a spreadsheet.

Data Sets
1998-99  |  2000-01  |  2002  |  2003  |  2004  |  2005

2003 Data

HS Marine Science Experience Homepage | Data | 2003 Data

Last updated 1/29/04