China Creek Conductivity Temperature Depth Deployed 2023-09-16

The Sea-Bird SeaCAT SBE19plus V2 7287 was deployed on 2023-09-16 at China Creek. China Creek is located in the Alberni Inlet, which is a long, narrow inlet on Vancouver Island. This device is a Conductivity Temperature Depth. Conductivity Temperature Depth (CTD) is an instrument package that contains sensors for measuring the conductivity, temperature, and pressure of seawater. Salinity, sound velocity, depth and density are variables that can be derived from sensor measurements. CTDs can carry additional instruments and sensors such as oxygen sensors, turbidity sensors and fluorometers. It was deployed on a fixed platform. Data from this deployment were archived and made available through Ocean Networks Canada's Oceans 3.0 digital infrastructure, with quality assurance and derived data products following established practices.