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Data Recovery

Kjetil Vaage, of the University of Bergen, helps WHOI mooring technicians Jim Ryder and Dan Torres recover the dual acoustic release component of a mooring line. During a cruise to the Arctic Ocean co-led by Bob Pickart in September 2013, Norweigen and American scientists collected data from moorings such as this one to better understand how the Arctic Ocean circulates as the water temperature rise. Pickart and a team of WHOI scientists, artists and technicians returned to the Arctic in the spring of 2014 to investigate a new phenomenon: a massive phytoplankton bloom under the ice in the Chukchi Sea. (Photo by Amy Cooper, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)