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Fouling of barnacles on a mooring float.

Fouling of barnacles on a mooring float.
Fouling of barnacles on a mooring float.
Fouling of barnacles on a mooring float.
Fouling of barnacles on a mooring float.
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Linder, Christopher
Fouling of barnacles on a mooring float.
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09/21/2003
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On a mooring located in the Chukchi Sea.
Image of The Day caption:
Instruments, buoys, and rigging lines placed in the sea attract a wide variety of organisms. After 13 months in the Chukchi Sea north of Alaska, this orange float sported a thick coat of young barnacles that had attached themselves to the hard surface. Such biofouling has been a challenge for sailors and oceanographers ever since boats and buoys were put into the water. The mooring this float belonged to was part of Edge of the Arctic Shelf project, a multi-year, multi-institution study of how circulation within the Arctic Ocean might be affected by global climate change.
Photo by Chris Linder
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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