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CTD rosette recovery to R/V Knorr.

CTD rosette recovery to R/V Knorr.
CTD rosette recovery to R/V Knorr.
CTD rosette recovery to R/V Knorr.
CTD rosette recovery to R/V Knorr.
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McKay, Cedar
CTD rosette recovery to R/V Knorr.
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07/16/2005
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 44, No. 3, Pg. 14:
Costa Rica Dome—
For six months a year, the Costa Rica Dome—a swath of ocean 200 to 400 kilometers (125 to 250 miles) off western Central America—blooms with a bounteous crop of microscopic plants and bacteria. Seasonal winds not only bring up nutrients from the deep, but also metals that are usually scarce in ocean: zinc, iron, copper, cobalt, and cadmium. These trace metals are key components of enzymes that drive metabolic reactions in marine life. WHOI marine chemists Mak Saito, Jim Moffett, and Dan Repeta and biologist Eric Webb explored many aspects of this phenomenon this summer aboard R/V Knorr with colleagues, including (foreground to background) Bethany Jenkins (Univeristy of Rhode Island), Amy Simoneau (WHOI), Sacha Wichers (WHOI), and Kate Achilles (University of California, Santa Cruz).
Photo by Cedar McKay, University of Washington
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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