 a MOCNESS |  a MOCNESS frame with no nets |
The MOCNESS, or "multiple opening closing net (and) environmental sampling system," is a contraption with lots of individual nets, usually at least nine, which take turns opening and closing to collect plankton samples at different depths. It gets dragged behind a slow-moving boat, and it can take several hours to complete a set of collections.
It's an example of the type of technology used to study zooplankton ecology, a branch of marine biology.
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