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Thursday, December 10, 2009 • Noted • by Eva Wisten • #

Postcard from the McMurdo Base

Jeff Hoffman and Jeff McQuaid from the J. Craig Venter Institute collect samples to determine the microbial diversity of the Ross Sea.

While sampling on the sea ice they were joined by groups of emperor penguins. 

(Picture was taken on ice edge 21 miles from the NSF run McMurdo Base, Antarctica)

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