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Recovering a CTD
Video courtesy of San Andreas Fault 2010 Expedition, NOAA-OER. Download (mp4, 12.1 MB)

Oregon State University graduate students Morgan Erhardt and Bran Black deploy and recover a CTD off the back of the Derek M. Baylis. Data from the CTD is used to help calculate sound velocity in water, which is needed for multibeam data collection.

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