Shallow Water Environmental Profiler in Trawl-Resistant Real-Time Configuration (SEPTR) Used for Frontal Dynamics Research

During both a winter and summer period of 2006, SEPTR moorings were used for real-time monitoring of velocity, temperature, salinity, waves, and optics in a dynamic frontal zone of the central Adriatic Sea. From the trawl-resistant, barnacle-like shaped SEPTR housings, velocities were measured acoustically. Other water column parameters were measured four times a day through a CTD profiler that was released to the surface and winched back into the protective mooring housing. Thus, all variables of dynamic significance were monitored synoptically across a heavily fished coastal frontal zone.