Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/24/2011 - 07:01
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Seawater Property Changes in the Southern Ocean

Mr. Botella, How do you measure the property changes in the ocean? What properties are you measuring?

-A student from Mr. Schlaefer's Science Class (Sydney R. Neustadter) :)

Thu, 02/24/2011 - 18:32

Juan Botella

Hi Sydney, thank you for your question. I am just now writing an entry for my
journal answering your question, so look there m=for more detail. We take a
large amount of water from the ocean with large bottles. When that comes
aboard we distribute among all analysis and then we analyze them. We are
measuring all sorts of things that can be dissolved in the water, from
salts to rare gases like tritium. We measure temperature, alkalinity,
dissolved organic carbon, dissolved carbon, and more.
Juan.