Marshall Swartz readies a rosette of instruments and sampling bottles for use in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010. Scientists from WHOI will deploy the instruments, which include a current profiler and an underwater mass spectrometer, to try to determine the composition, size, and movement of plumes of chemicals from the oil spill deep within the Gulf. They will receive real-time data from the instruments via a new Ethernet system Swartz developed. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)[back]
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