Long-Term Benthic Incubation and Measuring System and Method

The exemplary system and method configured to perform benthic flux incubation and measurement in an on-going continuous manner via motorized or non-motorized actuators that moves one or more sampling chambers (i) between different sampling regions or (ii) maintains the sampling chamber over a single region, for long term repeated measurements. The exemplary system and method can incubate and sample over multiple benthic sampling regions to acquire repeated measurements of both (i) fluxes and (ii) background processes and conditions (e.g., via ambient water incubations or ambient water concentration measurements), the results of which can be combined and processed by the exemplary system to generate data requiring minimal post-processing.