A team of biogeochemists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution traveled to Clayoquot Sound off Vancouver Island in 2009 to collect samples of particles of sinking marine detritus. They studied how marine bacteria coordinate their actions to break the particles apart. Aboard the research vessel Barnes are, from left, Tracy Mincer, Rose Kantor (a WHOI Summer Student Fellow), Laura Hmelo, and Benjamin Van Mooy. (Photo courtesy of Laura R. Hmelo)[back]
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