Coring in Plum Island Sound

We cored several sites in Plum Island Sound to determine marsh accretion rates using Pb-210 and Cs-137. The wind picked up as we crossed the sound, and it was a wet ride.

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Extracting >1m cores is a group effort!

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Jumping over mosquito ditches.

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Deploying sediment traps on the marsh.