Ocean's Biological Carbon Pump (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Ocean's Biological Carbon Pump

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WHOI marine chemist Ken Buesseler (right), one of the authors of the study, deploys a sediment trap used to study the biological carbon pump during a 2018 expedition in the Gulf of Alaska.

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(Photo by Alyson Santoro, University of California Santa Barbara)

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