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Working aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker, U.S. Coast Guard officer Lt. j.g. Rebecca Edmonds collects water samples from a conductivity, temperature and depth device to measure the nutrient, chlorophyll and salinity content.
Credit: Bryan Overcash, NOAA
