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Surface buoy with filter carousel mounted on it collecting airborne particles.

Surface buoy with filter carousel mounted on it collecting airborne particles.
Surface buoy with filter carousel mounted on it collecting airborne particles.
Surface buoy with filter carousel mounted on it collecting airborne particles.
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Sholkovitz, Edward
Surface buoy with filter carousel mounted on it collecting airborne particles.
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01/01/2004
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Date is approximate.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 45, No. 1, Pg. 12:
An intense storm in 2003 sent a massive plume of Saharan Desert dust over the Atlantic Ocean. It extended more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers), from the Cape Verde Islands to the Canary Islands. Dust storms may be a way for iron and other essential minerals to get into the open ocean to fuel blooms of marine life. WHOI scientists and engineers designed a device with an automated carousel of filters that collects windblown particles in the open ocean. It is mounted atop a moored buoy (shown here).
Photo by Ed Sholkovitz
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