Tracking Mud (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Tracking Mud

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Scientists on a research cruise in the central equatorial Pacific collected seafloor sediments showing that nutrient cycling in one part of the ocean may affect another region far away. Here, a researcher from Georgia Institute of Technology checks out newly retrieved mud.

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Pratigya Polissar/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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