Blog Post Image: Newly discovered ocean plume could be major source of iron

Former WHOI graduate student Abigail Noble, now a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, examined the samples Saito and his colleagues collected aboard the R/V Knorr. Her trace metal analyses revealed the presence of a plume of dissolved iron and manganese billowing from the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. (Photo by Carl Lamborg, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)