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Fish congregate under the structure oil rigs provide.

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An oil rig in the Santa Barbara Channel.

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A research boat flies through the chop.

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Happy plants covered in dew from the fog.

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Coring for soil samples.

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The Fog Collector. It looks like a harp with two perpendicular sets of strings. As fog water condenses on the vertical strings, it drips down into PVC funnels and is collected in a container with mineral oil in it to prevent the water from evaporating.

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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.

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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.