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View of seafloor sediment just prior to a multicorer sampling operation.

View of seafloor sediment just prior to a multicorer sampling operation.
View of seafloor sediment just prior to a multicorer sampling operation.
View of seafloor sediment just prior to a multicorer sampling operation.
View of seafloor sediment just prior to a multicorer sampling operation.
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Fornari, Daniel
View of seafloor sediment just prior to a multicorer sampling operation.
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10/29/2012
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A camera attached to the bottom of a multicore caught this view of seafloor organisms and a pink dumbo octopus right before the instrument reached the bottom. A multicorer drives eight plastic tubes into the seafloor to collect cylindrical samples of sediment. WHOI scientist Joan Bernhard deployed the multicorer in the Santa Barbara Basin in 2012, where she and colleagues have been studying foraminifera and other microscopic organisms that live in seafloor sediment. The camera, from an instrument loan program at WHOI, allowed them to see what kinds of surface seafloor organisms were present where the cylinders took their samples.
Photo courtesy of Dan Fornari
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