{"id":3996,"date":"2011-04-19T08:21:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T16:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2011-04-19T08:21:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T16:21:02","slug":"drop-in-to-mlml-open-house-niskin-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/04\/19\/drop-in-to-mlml-open-house-niskin-bottles\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop-In to MLML Open House: The Bottle Drop &#8211; See Niskins in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3997\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3997\" style=\"width: 316px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/04\/niskin-bottles1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3997\" title=\"Niskin Bottles1\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/04\/niskin-bottles1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/04\/niskin-bottles1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/04\/niskin-bottles1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Biological Oceanography student Shana Carmichael readies a Niskin bottle to show Open House visitors how scientists use it to collect water at different depths in the ocean.\u00a0 The bottles are arranged in a carousel on a CTD instrument like the one shown below (<a title=\"You Must be This Tall to Ride This\u00a0Ride\" href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/02\/27\/you-must-be-this-tall-to-ride-this-ride\/\">and modeled here<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0 Scientists lower the instrument to the depth of interest in the ocean, then send down a &#8220;messenger&#8221; weight that triggers the bottle to close at both ends.\u00a0\u00a0 Each bottle can be filled with water from a different layer of the ocean, allowing scientists to sample oxygen, nutrients, plankton and other water components across a range of depths.\u00a0 Come to Open House to see a nifty Niskin for yourself!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openhouse.mlml.calstate.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MLML\u00a0Open\u00a0House is Saturday, April 30 &amp; Sunday, May 1.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3998\" style=\"width: 315px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/04\/niskin-bottles2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3998\" title=\"Niskin Bottles2\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/04\/niskin-bottles2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/04\/niskin-bottles2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/04\/niskin-bottles2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biological Oceanography student Shana Carmichael readies a Niskin bottle to show Open House visitors how scientists use it to collect water at different depths in the ocean.\u00a0 The bottles are arranged in a carousel on a CTD instrument like the one shown below (and modeled here).\u00a0\u00a0 Scientists lower the instrument to the depth of interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,199],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biological-oceanography-lab","tag-open-house"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}