Submerged Environments Survey and Sampling Suite. The Submerged Environments Survey and Sampling Suite includes two marine geophysical sonar sensors and one marine geotechnical coring platform. Togeth

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Submerged Environments Survey and Sampling Suite. The Submerged Environments Survey and Sampling Suite includes two marine geophysical sonar sensors and one marine geotechnical coring platform. Together these marine survey items provide an integrated affordable capacity for Australian universities to expand their research into deeper waters and deeper underwater sediments in both marine and freshwater environments. The R2Sonic Multibeam is optimised for high resolution 3D sonar seabed mapping, paired with an Innomar Compact Subbottom Profiler to map the shape and depth of shallow sediments below the seabed. A floating UWITEC coring platform then allows recovery of deep samples of those sediments to extract evidence of past environments for archaeological and paleoenvironmental research. . Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities. Field: 4301 - Archaeology. Lead: Dr John McCarthy