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Kjetil Vaage and Jim Ryder (center) remove a MicroCat from a mooring line.

Kjetil Vaage and Jim Ryder (center) remove a MicroCat from a mooring line.
Kjetil Vaage and Jim Ryder (center) remove a MicroCat from a mooring line.
Kjetil Vaage and Jim Ryder (center) remove a MicroCat from a mooring line.
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Cooper, Amy
Kjetil Vaage and Jim Ryder (center) remove a MicroCat from a mooring line.
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09/17/2013
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Kjetil Vaage is an MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate and he now works at the University of Bergen.
MicroCats measure temperature and salinity.
Image Of the Day caption:
WHOI mooring technician Jim Ryder (center) and members of the crew aboard the R/V Lance work to remove an instrument that measures temperature and salinity from the mooring wire during an expedition in the high Arctic. Scientists onboard are studying how the polar ocean circulates and, in particular, the fate of warm Atlantic water flowing north into the Arctic Ocean. A moored profiler is used to make repeated measurements of water properties across a long section of the water column. The instrument on the wire had been profiling 1,000 meters of water every 12 hours for an entire year. Join the expedition online where researchers are posting daily updates.
Photo by Amy Cooper
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http://www.whoi.edu/warmingarctic
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