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Alice Albert and Alexis Fischer in a small boat with recovered sediment traps.

Alice Albert and Alexis Fischer in a small boat with recovered sediment traps.
Alice Albert and Alexis Fischer in a small boat with recovered sediment traps.
Alice Albert and Alexis Fischer in a small boat with recovered sediment traps.
Alice Albert and Alexis Fischer in a small boat with recovered sediment traps.
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Alice Albert and Alexis Fischer in a small boat with recovered sediment traps.
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05/17/2014
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MIT-WHOI Joint Program students Alice Alpert and Alexis Fischer retrieved sediment traps recently from Nauset Marsh in Orleans, Mass. Fischer, a biology student, is studying harmful algal blooms produced annually by the plankton Alexandrium fundyense in the marsh. Fischer wants to know how many cysts form in the blooms and what factors cause the blooms to start and end. For instance, plankton cells transition into cysts (similar to seeds), then fall to the marsh bottom at the end of a bloom, which is an important stage in the plankton's life cycle. Fischer said she invited Alpert, a geology and geophysics student studying corals, to experience field work in a new setting.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 52, No. 1, pg. 30:
It looks like nice summer day on the water, but Alexis Fischer (right) and Alice Alpert, graduate students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, are hard at work preparing instruments called sediment traps. They collect detritus and many types of organisms that fall from surface waters to sediments on the bottom of Nauset Marsh, a network of shallow channels and ponds at the Cape Cod National Seashore. (continued in the article)
Photo courtesy of Alexis Fischer
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