![](images/btn_new.jpg) | Term | Definition |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | Automated | Sample collected using an automated sampler |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | Core | Core sample resulting in a section of a substance |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | FD | Foliage Digestion |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | FF | Forest Floor Digestion |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | FL | Foliage Leaching |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | Grab | Grab sample |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | GW | Groundwater |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | LF | Litter Fall Digestion |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | meteorological | sample type can include a number of measured sample types including temperature, RH, solar radiation, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction. |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | No Sample | There is no lab sample associated with this measurement |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | PB | Precipitation Bulk |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | PD | Petri Dish (Dry Deposition) |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | PE | Precipitation Event |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | PI | Precipitation Increment |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | Pump | Water column pump |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | PW | Precipitation Weekly |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | Rake | A long-handled implement with a row of projecting teeth at its head, used to gather objects at the ground-surface |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | RE | Rock Extraction |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | Rosette sampler | A device with a cluster of sampling bottles that is lowered into a fluid |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | SE | Stemflow Event |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | Sonde | A device such as a CTD which measures variables such as conductivity, temperature, and depth, that is lowered into a body of water |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | SR | Standard Reference |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | SS | Streamwater Suspended Sediment |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | SW | Streamwater |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | TE | Throughfall Event |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | TI | Throughfall Increment |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | Trap | A device or enclosure designed to catch and retain animals, typically by allowing entry but not exit or by catching hold of a part of the body |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | Trawl | a sample collected by equipment towed behind a vessel |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | TW | Throughfall Weekly |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | Unknown | The sample type is unknown |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | VE | Vadose Water Event |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | Vertical Plankton Net | A plankton net that is towed vertically from a ship, the ship is not moving. |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | VI | Vadose Water Increment |
![](images/btn_edit.gif) | VW | Vadose Water Weekly |