Chip Breier, a postdocotral fellow at WHOI, prepares to test a device he is developing called the Suspended Particulate Rosette (SuPR), which efficiently collects tiny particles from minerals or microbes?in a plume of hot fluids gushing from a seafloor hydrothermal vent, for example. Coupled with a Raman spectrometer, it could analyze the chemical composition of those particles right at the seafloor.[back]
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