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features, such as the formation of me- system and observe changes in the color scribe these high resolution changes, if it anders, shingles, and ? lamentous struc- based on optical instrumentation. For the wasn’t for the FlowCam operating in this tures, which formed due to the inter- ? rst time, they could see how changes in ? ow-through mode. If we came across action of the saltier Gulf Stream with the optical properties of seawater were some unusual communities of phyto- fresher coastal waters. During the cruise, in? uenced, to a great degree, by the kind plankton, we could immediately exam-

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