Sediment Cores & History

The authors name is Alyson Santoro and she is studying microbes in the nitrogen cycle


The technique the researcher used that is especially good at recovering delicate sediments is multi-coring; it drops a mooring into the water, and takes a lot of samples at once

After the samples are loaded onto the ship they are rushed to coldvan then measured for their oxygen content ration.

The name of the research vessel is call the Melville