Good things take time

Exciting morning for our WP3 team. We deployed a final run with the time lapse camera in our deep sea area. This time the camera will take a picture of baited kelp tray every 90 minutes from now until October, 2017.

Our previous deployments ran for 30 h. This 4-month trial is a unique opportunity to learn more about the long-term turnover rate of drift, as well as to document how the bottom communities using this food source change over time.

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We can use this information to address critical questions, such as how much kelp is consumed vs. buried in these habitats, which is important for understanding its role as a carbon sink.

Fingers crossed that we can get it back up from 400 m in October!