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Urban microbes

Research Specialist Mark Dennett of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Assistant Research Scientist Linda Amaral-Zettler of the Marine Biological Laboratory deploy a sonde (a sensor to collect water column data) during a sampling trip to Mount Hope Bay, R.I. Dennett and Amaral-Zettler are part of a research team investigating the presence of human pathogens in coastal waters–including Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana–as part of their project in the Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health. (Abby Laatsch, Marine Biological Laboratory)