LabSTAF and RunSTAF Handbook 2408-014-HB Issue E.

The LabSTAF and RunSTAF Handbook 2408-014-HB Issue E. is fully available open access via the Ocean Best Practices System Repository, where it is periodically updated. This version has been provided in order to make the publication findable via Zenodo. The DOI provided links to Issue E. of the handbook, but any further issues will be readily available in the OBPS repository link.

LabSTAF is the first of a new generation of research-grade active fluorometers being developed by Chelsea Technologies Ltd (CTL) in collaboration with The University of Southampton (UoS), the National Oceanographic Centre (NOC) and The University of Essex (UoE) as part of the STAFES-APP project within the NERC-funded OCEANIDS programme (NE/P020844/1). The STAFES-APP acronym expands to Single Turnover Active Fluorometry of Enclosed Samples – for Autonomous Phytoplankton Productivity. The aim of the project is to develop highly sensitive benchtop and deployable systems that can be used to improve our understanding of the global carbon cycle and aquatic ecosystem function.