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One of the buckets placed on the seafloor to attract microbes.

One of the buckets placed on the seafloor to attract microbes.
One of the buckets placed on the seafloor to attract microbes.
One of the buckets placed on the seafloor to attract microbes.
One of the buckets placed on the seafloor to attract microbes.
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Edwards, Katrina
One of the buckets placed on the seafloor to attract microbes.
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01/01/2003
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 42, No. 2, Pg. 88:
A BUCKETFUL OF DATA—WHOI scientists prepared plastic buckets filled with thin, microbe-free samples of natural seafloor rock and placed them back on the seafloor. The experiment sought to find out what might “grow” on these “blank slates.” To their surprise, the scientists found that the samples were quickly colonized by intriguing microbes.
Photo by Katrina Edwards, WHOI
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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