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Piston core deployment

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center April 2015 (approx.)
Two people working on the deck of a ship to lower some sampling equipment into the water.
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Jenny White and Pete Dal Ferro, engineering technicians from the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center in Santa Cruz, California, deploy a piston core from the stern of Research Vessel Sharp.

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