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How Old? The Carbon Knows

Karl von Reden, staff physicist, is shown working at the WHOI-based National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS) facility. The facility is used to carbon date organic and inorganic material by measuring the isotope of carbon known as radiocarbon, or carbon-14. Radiocarbon is produced naturally by the interaction of cosmic rays with the upper atmosphere,…

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How Old? The Carbon Knows
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How Old? The Carbon Knows

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Two Thumbs Up

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In Your Face

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Graduating with a Special Honor

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Seafood Supply Discussed

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Tag, You’re It

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The Better to See You With

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Sleepy Sepia?

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On the Path To an Ocean Observing Network

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On the Move

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Bats out of the Blue

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Home on the Reef

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Explore Our Ocean Planet

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Hiding in Plain Sight

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Running Hot and Cold

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Watching for Red Tides

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Back from the Deep

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Spying a pelican, briefly

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Scanning the Bottom of the World

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Tsunami Shrine

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Easy Does It

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Celebrating World Oceans Day

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Sea-Space Connection

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Morning in the Bering Sea

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