financially supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program,Grant No.2010AA09Z202);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41106081);the Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51221004);the United States National Science Foundation(Grant No.0927615);the Knowledge Innovation Project from Sanya Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering(Grant No.SIDSSE-201204)
This paper describes the design, construction and preliminary test results for a gas-tight serial sampler intended to be deployed at seafloor for long-term operation to take time-series fluid samples from deep-sea env...