This summer our group successfully finished field work in the Santa Monica Basin to study the potential spreading of the Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ). The research is funded through a USC Sea Grant project (PIs: Will Berelsen, USC and Tina Treude, UCLA) and a UCLA Faculty Research Grand. We studied the water column and sampled sediments for biogeochemical analyzes along a transect from 70 to 900 m water depth using a CTD and a multicorer on board the R/V YELLOWFIN (Southern California Marine Institute). Students from a UCLA Fiat Lux course (teacher: Tina Treude) and from the Mt. San Antonio College (teacher: Tania Anders) joined some of the trips to become engaged in ocean research.

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