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Summer Sampling

February 11, 2016

WHOI summer student fellow Claudia Mazur (left), of Mount Holyoke College, and guest student Alec Cobban, of Dartmouth College, sampled sediments in West Falmouth Harbor in August 2015. Both spent their summer working in the lab of WHOI geologist Ginny Edgcomb on a project funded by the Coastal Ocean Institute investigating the ability of oysters to remove nitrogen from sediments beneath aquaculture sites. Excess nutrients such as nitrogen from fertilizer runoff can lead to algal blooms that remove oxygen from the water and disturb natural ecosystems. Applications for the 2016 class of fellows are due February 15. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)