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Standing in the bucket on the side of the research vessel Spencer F. Baird, Robert H. Parker, Junior Research Ecologist, University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, starts a Peterson grab sampler on its trip to the ocean floor. The sampler will trip on striking bottom and then close. The sampler is one of the standard tools in oceanographic research. This photograph was taken on vermilion Sea Expedition to the Gulf of California.

Standing in the bucket on the side of the research vessel Spencer F. Baird, Robert H. Parker, Junior Research Ecologist, U...