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Article: Moorings and Platforms
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Moorings and Platforms
Moorings and platforms are structures that allow water scientists to position instruments, collect samples, and take long-term measurements in waterbodies. A mooring typically consists of a flexible cable that is tethered to the ocean floor by a weight or anchor and suspended from the sea surface by a buoy. A platform has a flat workspace for instruments and people, and can be free-floating, moored to the seafloor, or rigidly fixed in place.
Water scientists, including physical and chemical oceanographers, marine biologists and geologists,
meteorologists
, and lake scientists called limnologists collect many types of data from instruments installed on moorings
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