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Sediment trap made out of plastic soda bottles.

Sediment trap made out of plastic soda bottles.
Sediment trap made out of plastic soda bottles.
Sediment trap made out of plastic soda bottles.
Sediment trap made out of plastic soda bottles.
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Kostel, Ken
Sediment trap made out of plastic soda bottles.
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04/27/2012
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, vol. 49, no. 2, page 5:
Not every experiment requires expensive equipment. For research on how storms transport sand, WHOI postdoctoral scientist Andrea Hawkes fashioned instruments out of plastic tubing, duct tape, and womens stockings (above) and installed them on telephone poles (right). Researchers also used soda bottles (far right) to make sediment traps submerged in shoreline ponds.
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Not every scientific experiment requires expensive equipment. As Hurricane Irene advanced up the East Coast in August 2011, WHOI postdoctoral scientists Pete van Hengstum and Andrea Hawkes and their colelagues in the Coastal Systems Lab used simple items to quickly fashion instruments that could help them study the effects of the storm's high winds. The device shown here was built out of soda bottles, centrifuge tubes, and duct tape to collect sediment blown into shoreline ponds. Other instruments made of soda bottles, nylon stockings, and pipe clamps collected samples of material blown or washed off nearby beaches. Their data will help reveal how storms re-shape coastlines over time.
Photo by Ken Kostel
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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