Novel Syringe Sampler In Action (VIDEO)

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

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This is the syringe-sampler deployed from the ROV Jason II being used to collect samples from deeper within a thick iron-oxidizing microbial mat at the SnakePit hydrothermal vent field.

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Video taken by the ROV Jason II (courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the SNAPMORE cruise)

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