Sediment Core & History

1. Who is the author and what is she researching?
The author is Alyson Santoro, and she is researching microbes in the nitrogen cycle.

2. What technique did the researcher use that is especially good at recovering delicate sediments?
The technique is called "multieoring."

3. What happens to the samples after it is loaded onto the ship?
They look closely at the multibeam sonar images to find a relatively flat area of the bottom where the coring device can land.

4. What's the name of the research vessel?
The Melville.

SOURCE: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Woelige_zee_met_schepen_-_Turbulent_sea_with_ships_%28Ludolf_Backhuysen%29.jpg

SOURCE: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05fire/background/mapping/media/multi_sonar_600.jpg