Down she goes! The corer will go 600 feet down into Puget Sound to collect a cylinder of muck that could have dormant algal cysts in it.
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Ashley Ahearn
Alexandrium Catanella looks like "fluorescent jellybeans" under the microscope.
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Nanette Huber
Cheryl Greengrove, professor at University of Washington Tacoma and chief scientist on the cruise, points out some algal cyst hot spots on a map of Puget Sound.