Sampling Pore Fluids, Sediments, and Bacteria

Sampling Pore Fluids, Sediments, and Bacteria

A push core is taken with the ROV ROPOS adjacent to an OOI-RSN "Mosquito" flow meter built by E. Solomon at the University of Washington. The entrapped sediment, pore fluids, and bacterial mats were brought back to the ship for ship- and shore-based analyses. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1772; V14.  

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