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John Kemp, carrying drill bits, jumps across an ice stream.

John Kemp, carrying drill bits, jumps across an ice stream.
John Kemp, carrying drill bits, jumps across an ice stream.
John Kemp, carrying drill bits, jumps across an ice stream.
John Kemp, carrying drill bits, jumps across an ice stream.
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Linder, Christopher
John Kemp, carrying drill bits, jumps across an ice stream.
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08/15/2005
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Image Of the Day repeat caption:
John Kemp, operations leader of the WHOI Mooring Operations and Engineering Group, leaps over melt pond in the Arctic carrying equipment to drill a hole into an ice floe to install an instrument called an ice-tethered profiler (ITP). ITPs have a buoy that sits atop the ice, with a line descending into the ocean. A device moves up and down the line, measuring water temperature, salinity, and sometimes oxygen content at various depths, as the floe drifts across the ocean. ITPs have been key instruments for a multi-institutional Arctic observing network that has detected impacts from climate change in the region.
Image of the Day caption:
Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Experiment. Senior Engineering Assistant John Kemp leaps across a melt pond in the Arctic ice while carrying drill bits for use in deploying an ice-tethered profiler in the Beaufort Sea.
Photo by Chris Linder
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre/index.html
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