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The Sea Ice Team at work collecting salt water from inside the sea ice. Dr. Tish Yager holds the collection jug as students Kevin Bakker, Brett Heimlich and Alex Mass pump brine from a hole in the ice. This hole does not go all the way through the sea ice. Instead, it acts like a well and allows super saline water in the porous sea ice to flow through brine channels and collect in the hole. This brine is then brought into the labs aboard Oden and is tested for several things. All of the sea ice algae and bacteria actually live in this brine. 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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1780755
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PENTAX Corporation
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PENTAX Optio W20
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