Adi Torfstein | adi.torf@mail.huji.ac.il

Manufacturer and model:
Deep Sea sediment trap mooring

General Information:
Bottom tethered at a water depth of 610 meters in the Gulf of Eilat, this mooring contains a range
of sediments traps deployed almost continuously since January 2014.

Key Features:
The mooring stretches between a depth of 610 meters until ~30 meters below sea surface and
contains KC Denmark cylinder traps vertically stacked at five depth points (120, 220, 350, 450,
and 570 m below the sea surface), an automated Mclane PARFLUX-II time series sediment trap
deployed at 410 m, and a current and temperature meter.
This mooring is part of the Red Sea Dust, Marine Particles, and Seawater TimeSeries
(REDMAST) campaign (https://sites.google.com/mail.huji.ac.il/torfstein-lab/redmast).
The sediment traps are used to investigate primary and export production fluxes in the Gulf of
Eilat, trace element particulate fluxes, planktonic foraminifera ecology and fluxes, and solid-
dissolved geochemical interplay in the oceans.

Contact person
Sigalit Amiran-Kan - Lab manager.