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Deep Sea Diary: Cadence of Journey

Tuesday, June 5th Yesterday I took my drawing papers into the hot black box of the Jason van (air conditioner failure in tropical temperatures) and sketched the sea floor. As we passed over each dark horizon I could add another layer to my drawing. Laura Brothers with the USGS made a new map of the […]
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Deep Sea Diary: First day on the Atlantis

Aboard the Atlantis docked in Bridgetown, Barbados I enter a world that is both familiar and extraordinary. Scientists seated at breakfast work with population dynamics and are from France and Sweden. They determine if the samples from the bottom of the ocean floor are an isolated non-cross populated species or if they arrived by current […]
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