As part of our USC Sea Grant project we took undergraduate students from UCLA (teacher: Tina Treude) and the Mt. San Antonio College (teacher: Tania Anders) out into the Santa Monica Bay with the R/V Yellowfin to collect sediment cores with a multicorer from a deep low oxygen zone (~900 m water depth) and from a more oxygen-rich shelf zone (~230 m water depth). Samples will be used in class as well as in an exhibition at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium starting this summer to provide information about the Santa Monica Bay oxygen minimum zone. Students and teachers enjoyed the day on the ocean. While on board, staff of the Southern California Marine Institution (SCMI) introduced classical oceanographic sampling devices. A large clam in an old  glass bottle left everyone wondering…

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