The objective of the piston core group is to collect sea bottom sediments to resolve the change in ocean flux in the oceans studied during the glacial-interglacial cycles. The sampling is done using piston corers - long individual and short multiple ones.
The pictures depict preparations on the long sediment corers... (More.)
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| | atmosphere | large volume | ctd | piston core | clean room filtration work | in-situ filtration | sediment trap | cruise | |