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Aerial view of several lakes around the Kangerlussuaq region of Greenland
An aerial view of several lakes around the Kangerlussuaq region of Greenland from which researchers are collecting diatom samples for study.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant PRL 1203434, an Arctic System Science program award for "Deciphering the ecology of key diatom taxa to understand climate-induced changes in West Greenland lakes."]
Learn more in the NSF "Science Nation" video Diatom algae populations tell a story about climate change in Greenland. (Date of Image: July 2013)
Credit: Benjamin Burpee, The University of Maine
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