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Finding Fresh Water Under the Sea

WHOI geophysicist Dan Lizarralde points to a real-time image of the seafloor off Martha’s Vineyard, generated by an EK80 echosounder on the research vessel Neil Armstrong. Lizarralde can use the EK80 to look for gas bubbles—possible evidence of fresh water seeping into the ocean from the sediments below. On a previous cruise to the same…

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