- Alyson Santoro, and she is researching microbes in the nitrogen cycle.
2. What technique is the researcher using that is especially good at recover
- They drop a morine into the water that takes more than one sample at once, this process is called Multicoring.
3. What happens to the samples after it is loaded onto the ship?
- They rush the cores to a special lab called a Cold Van, were it's conditioned to be the same temperature as the oceans bottom, 40F, Then they measure the oxygen concentration at different depths of the core, and then they take samples of carbon and nitrogen back home to study.
4. What's the name of the research vessel?
- Melville
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