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TowCam imaging components installed on Multicorer frame.

TowCam imaging components installed on Multicorer frame.
TowCam imaging components installed on Multicorer frame.
TowCam imaging components installed on Multicorer frame.
TowCam imaging components installed on Multicorer frame.
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Roosen, Ellen
TowCam imaging components installed on Multicorer frame.
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10/28/2012
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R/V Melville cruise MV1214
10/27/2012 - 10/31/2012
Chief Scientist: Dan Fornari.
The TowCam imaging components were mounted on the multicorer in order to capture images and extract cores from sediment in Santa Barbara Basin.
Image Of the Day caption:
A pyramid-shaped multicorer sits on the deck of the R/V Melville off Santa Barbara, California in October 2012. Multicorers collect seafloor sediment samples without disrupting the uppermost sediment layers and the single-celled organisms living in them. On this cruise WHOI geobiologist Joan Bernhard, microbial ecologist Virginia Edgcomb, and geologist Dan Fornari tested a deep-sea camera and strobe system on the multicorer, funded by NSF's Oceanographic Facilities and Equipment Division. The system sends real-time images of the seafloor to scientists aboard, allowing them to guide the sampler, and collects high-resolution images that are stored in the camera for downloading on recovery.
Photo by Ellen Roosen
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=17619
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