{"id":7299,"date":"2018-01-16T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/?p=7299"},"modified":"2018-02-06T14:18:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T14:18:13","slug":"aries-more-than-just-a-star-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/2018\/01\/16\/aries-more-than-just-a-star-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Year of the Engineer &#8211;  Aries. 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Over the next 12 months, we&#8217;ll be introducing you to some of our incredibly talented engineers, as well as showing your some of their work. First up, one of our inventions.<\/p>\n<p>This is the ARIES sampler, developed and built by scientists and engineers at Marine Scotland Science.<\/p>\n<p>ARIES, which stands for Automated Recording Instrumented Environmental Sampler, has the ability to collect 110 plankton samples in small codend bags, and 60 water samples at depths down to 3500 metres.<\/p>\n<p>The open stainless steel frame means that it is also capable of carrying a large payload of other instrumentation which, at one time or another, has included a Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD), Optical Particle Counter (OPC), Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), underwater echo sounders and a holographic plankton camera.<\/p>\n<p>ARIES has been deployed on a variety of ships for over 20 years and it continues to successfully collect data for our scientists on the winter MRV Scotia surveys in the Faroe Shetland Channel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further Information<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/Topics\/marine\/science\/scienceops\/vessels-technology\/engineering\/Samplers\">Marine Scotland Science (MSS) Plankton Sampling Systems<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland?s=ARIES+Survey\">Blogs about using ARIES<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland?s=faroe\">Blogs about the Faroe Shetland Channel surveys<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4ZwmZ1UFMCs\">Watch a film about the Faroe Shetland Channel surveys<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we mentioned in our blog earlier this month, 2018 is the Year of the Engineer as well as the Year of the Young Person. 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