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Gigi Engel holds her first ice core.

Gigi Engel holds her first ice core.
Gigi Engel holds her first ice core.
Gigi Engel holds her first ice core.
Gigi Engel holds her first ice core.
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Linder, Christopher L.
Gigi Engel holds her first ice core.
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04/14/2009
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Caption from Polar Discovery: Gigi Engel, a graduate student at the University of Washington, took her first ice core today. Dan Naber, from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, told her to handle it with care. "It'll slip out like greased lightning, so get your hand over the end," he said. She was taking the core to get ice algae to feed the krill in her experiments. Last night there was nothing in the seawater for the krill to eat, so the team couldn't start a new experiment. "Tonight, though, they will eat," she says.
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On an expanse of ice-covered ocean, Gigi Engel, a graduate student at the University of Washington, slips an ice core out the core. She took the core to find and collect algae growing on the bottom surface of the ice, to feed to shrimplike krill?a key part of polar ocean ecosystems. Engel was part of a spring 2009 research cruise, led by WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian, to study the Bering Sea ecosystem at a time of changing climate. The cruise was featured as a "Live From the Poles" expedition on the WHOI Polar Discovery site.
Photo by Chris Linder
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