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Makeshift floating lab raft used at Dongsha Atoll in South China Sea.

Makeshift floating lab raft used at Dongsha Atoll in South China Sea.
Makeshift floating lab raft used at Dongsha Atoll in South China Sea.
Makeshift floating lab raft used at Dongsha Atoll in South China Sea.
Makeshift floating lab raft used at Dongsha Atoll in South China Sea.
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Pietro, Kathryn Rose
Makeshift floating lab raft used at Dongsha Atoll in South China Sea.
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06/18/2013
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During a trip to Dongsha Atoll south of Taiwan in the South China Sea last year, researchers fashioned a floating lab out of wooden planks and plastic tubes. The region experiences the worlds largest internal waveswaves that form within the ocean along the boundaries between water layers with different densities. As these waves shoal up the atoll, they bring cool, nutrient-rich, low-pH seawater to the reefs. The researchers used their custom-made lab to deploy instruments on the reefs so they could study how the waves affect the health of corals in the area.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 51, No. 2, pg. 33:
Scientists use a makeshift floating lab, fastened from wooden planks strapped to plastic tubes, to study corals in the South China Sea.
Caption from Oceanus online article:
To study corals in the South China Sea, WHOI scientists set up a makeshift floating lab, strapping wooden planks across plastic tubes.
Photo by Kathryn Pietro
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