Peter Wiebe, senior scientist in the WHOI Biology Department and chief scientist on the Census of Marine Zooplankton cruise, helps launch the Multiple Opening Closing Net Environment Systems Sampler (MOCNESS) from the deck of the NOAA research vessel Ron Brown, to sample ocean life at several depths. The cruise, part of the Census of Marine Life project, brought international experts together to find Atlantic Ocean animal plankton species and identify them using both taxonomic and molecular DNA methods. (Photo by Larry Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)[back]
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