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After a large hollow drill is powered through the sea ice, a 14cm diameter cylindrical ice core is removed. Kevin Bakker uses a handsaw to cut the one meter core into 10cm sections. Dr. Tish Yager takes the ice sections and places each into plastic bags for analysis in her labs aboard the Oden. Some of the sea ice is light brown due to a layer of living algae and bacteria. These sections will be carefully melted so that the community of living organisms can be studied. On the sea ice, near the icebreaker Oden.

Credit to read: Photo by Jeff Peneston (PolarTREC 2008/2009), Courtesy of ARCUS

Photographer: Jeff Peneston
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Year: 
2008
Program: 
PolarTREC
Region: 
Southern Ocean
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