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Kirstin Meyer

Sadie Mills, NIWA. HADES Kermadec Trench 2014.

Kirstin Meyer, graduate student from the University of Oregon, enthusiastically hunts for amphipods attached to the fish bait collected from several thousand meters deep and performs an intricate dissection on one of the trench amphipods.