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Bottles filled on sediment trap just after recovery.

Bottles filled on sediment trap just after recovery.
Bottles filled on sediment trap just after recovery.
Bottles filled on sediment trap just after recovery.
Bottles filled on sediment trap just after recovery.
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Roosen, Ellen
Bottles filled on sediment trap just after recovery.
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10/02/2011
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On or about 1 October 2011, your vessel being ready for sea and weather permitting, you will depart Woods Hole, MA on Voyage #476. Upon completion of the science activities, the vessel shall call at the port of St. George's, Bermuda on or about 13 October 2011.
The scientific objectives of this cruise will be to collect settling and suspended particles at three locations on the northwest Atlantic margin to determine carbon transport from the shelf/slope to the deep basin, coupled with physical oceanographic data from moorings at Line W.
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Sediment trap samples, such as these recovered from a mooring off Cape Hatteras by the R/V Oceanus in October 2011, offer scientists a glimpse into the complex and often hidden world of continental shelf processes. The shelf is an area where particle fluxes are extremely high as lateral currents push sediments from the coastal ocean into the deep ocean, a process known as the "continental shelf pump." By analyzing the sediments that pass across this boundary, researchers hope to learn more about the important role of the continental shelf pump in the ocean carbon cycle, and the distribution of particles in deep sea sediments.
Photo by Ellen Roosen
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