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A happy lab team is the best kind of lab team!

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And when you’re at sea, sometimes you might need to filter with your life vest on inside the lab – just in case.

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It is debatable whether or not watching the seawater filter makes the process go any faster.  

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The filter rack shaded from the light

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PVC filter racks: the humblest form of filter rack.

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PVC filter racks: the humblest form of filter rack.

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More sharpie art (white arrows)

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White arrows indicate graduate student sharpie art.

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This is the data we end up with – it’s called an iron profile.

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Here is where we actually filter the water, it’s also in the clean van, right across from the bottles.

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Here’s all of our bottles inside the clean van! We cover all of the surfaces with plastic so that no metals can touch the bottles. Right now they have seawater in them from different depths.