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Working under icebreaker’s “Guard”
June 8, 2009Working out on the ice in the reassuring presence of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy, scientist Katrin Iken (left, from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks)—assisted by technician Pat Kelly (right, University of Rhode Island) and science writer Helen Fields (center)— prepares a cylindrical sediment trap to hang below the ice and catch particles falling down through the ice-covered ocean. The three participated in a spring 2009 research cruise led by WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian, to study the productive ecosystem of the Bering Sea in a time of changing climate.
(Photo by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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