Dual Solid/Liquid Sampling Design as a Modular System for Mobile Human and Machine Sampling Soft Material Applications

This prototypical sampling system is designed to support sampling of solids and liquids by humans and/or machines with the goal of adaptively (in space and in time) taking small volumes of soft samples such as coral polyps, sponges, fish tissue or liquid samples from any overlying water layer. The purpose of this tool is to provide a minimally invasive way to collect samples of oceanic soft materials with minimal impact and be useful in manned, ROV or unmanned exploration and sampling efforts. Once collected, the solid and extracted samples are to be archived for later laboratory analysis for high content analytical results.