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The sampling bottles rotate on a schedule programmed before the instrument is deployed, each collecting about 5 day's to a month's worth of "rain" before being sealed for analysis upon recovery of the sediment trap. At right is a diagram of an Arabian Sea mooring that included PARFLUX traps (yellow cones) for WHOI–Oregon State University joint research and traps specially designed for biochemical studies (red squares) by researchers from the State University of New York–Stony Brook, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, and the University of Washington.[back]
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