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Jamie Collins and Ben Van Mooy with PHORCYS after the unit is recovered.

Jamie Collins and Ben Van Mooy with PHORCYS after the unit is recovered.
Jamie Collins and Ben Van Mooy with PHORCYS after the unit is recovered.
Jamie Collins and Ben Van Mooy with PHORCYS after the unit is recovered.
Jamie Collins and Ben Van Mooy with PHORCYS after the unit is recovered.
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Jamie Collins and Ben Van Mooy with PHORCYS after the unit is recovered.
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04/27/2012
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Image Of the Day caption:
WHOI scientist Benjamin Van Mooy (right) and MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Jamie Collins flank the proof-of-concept version of an instrument called PHORCYS. Van Mooy co-developed the device to make near-real-time measurements of photosynthesis and respiration in the ocean. These are key indicators of what phytoplankton, the base of the marine food web, are doing. Previous methods were difficult and time-consuming; PHORCYS yields results much more quickly and easily. PHORCYS was a primordial sea god in Greek mythologya fish-man with crab claws and red-spiked skin. To scientists (who like acronyms), PHORCYS stands for PHOtosynthesis, Respiration, and Carbon balance Yielding System.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 52, No. 2, pg. 20:
Scientist Ben Van Mooy (right) and student Jamie Collins with a PHORCYS prototype.
Photo by Suni Shah
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