depth? You could use a Niskin bottle

I do trace metal shore side sampling in shallow estuaries and have a similar problem. The best solution I have found is simply a 3 m long wood/plastic pole that was made in our workshop. The last meter entirely consists of plastic, with a snug holder for 500 ml LDPE bottles at the very end such that bottles can be submerged and emptied a few times away from the shore side before collecting water.

Sergio, the depth is only 1-2m, sometimes even less.

Mark, I will try your solution. it makes sense.

Thanks. please send my regards to Peter too.

Tzachi

Mark, do you wait with the filtration until you get back to your lab? I can't do the filtration on the same day, so looking for clean filtration setting as well.

Yitzhak for shallow water we use this "home made" sampler.

It looks similar to the device that Mark described. I will try to make something like that, with the last part made of plastic.

Thank you very much.

We have some hand pumps that we carry into the field with a plastic mounted filtration unit. It's a little tricky as everything has to be acid cleaned, bagged and carried into the field, but its better than leaving the water samples for several hours before filtration.

Buy a telescoping paint roller extension and bolt a clamp to the end. You can add dense foam to the clamp in order to better fit your sampling vessel. This will allow you to sample from shore.

Thanks