Media Category: CCE

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

The filter rack shaded from the light

PVC filter racks: the humblest form of filter rack.

PVC filter racks: the humblest form of filter rack.

More sharpie art (white arrows)

White arrows indicate graduate student sharpie art.

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

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

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.

Now the CTD is ready to go in the water. The ropes we are holding are called tag lines, and we use them to stabilize the CTD so it’s not swinging around and getting damaged… or hitting us in the head.