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Jake |
May 31 2005, 01:29 PM
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Why are you collecting water from the rivers?
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Amy_Clapp |
Jun 5 2005, 06:47 PM
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That's a great question Jake, I'm going to try and answer it in a way you can understand. Basically, we are collecting the water samples from the six major rivers that flow into the Atlantic Ocean. We are collecting the samples so that scientists can learn more about what is going on in the land and water in the Arctic. What is really neat is that water can tell a story if you analyze it. Scientists can find out certain things that are happening in the land by looking closely at the water because as water travels through soils before it gets to a river, it picks up little pieces and parts of the soils, so by analyzing the water scientist can tell some things about the land that the water passed through.
Scientists are also collecting samples of water so that they can try to trace where the water goes once the wate dumps into the Arctic Ocean. There are lots of ways that the ocean water moves out of the Arctic Ocean into the Atlantic Ocean. Scientsts know that there is more water going into the Arctic Ocean from the rivers in the Arctic, but what they want to find out is where all the extra water is going. So, by collecting samples they can find out what the water's chemistry is and then they may be able to follow the water from each river when it flows into the ocean. I hope this helps explain what you wanted to know... Amy Clapp |
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