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Arnold Clarke and others attaching thermometers to Nansen bottles for Bikini Atoll use.

Arnold Clarke and others attaching thermometers to Nansen bottles for Bikini Atoll use.
Arnold Clarke and others attaching thermometers to Nansen bottles for Bikini Atoll use.
Arnold Clarke and others attaching thermometers to Nansen bottles for Bikini Atoll use.
Arnold Clarke and others attaching thermometers to Nansen bottles for Bikini Atoll use.
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Arnold Clarke and others attaching thermometers to Nansen bottles for Bikini Atoll use.
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03/01/1946
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 52, No. 2, pg. 35:
WHOI personnel attach thermometers to Nansen sampling bottles for shipping to the Pacific. The instruments were used to survey the waters around Bikini Atoll before a nuclear bomb test.
Image Of the Day caption:
In 1946, some 40 WHOI staff participated in work to study the effects of a nuclear blast and subsequent radiation on the ocean and marine life. From left, Arnold Clarke, Ruthann Wyrick, Charlotte Vail, and Bobby Atwood prepare sampling bottles for shipment to Bikini Atoll prior to Operation Crossroads, in which two bombs were detonated, one in the atmosphere and one underwater. Today, WHOI chemist Ken Buesseler is studying the impacts and spread of radiation from Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant and recently visited Bikini Atoll to gather samples to better understand the ocean's background radiation.
Caption from Down to the Sea for Science, Pg. 68:
From left: Arnold Clarke, Ruthann Wyrick, Charlotte Vail, and Bobby Atwood attach thermometers to Nansen bottles for shipping to the Pacific for surveys around Bikini Atoll prior to the atomic bomb tests there.
Photo courtesy of WHOI Archives
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