Lauren Kipp, a researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, holds filter material used to extract radium from seawater samples Sept. 1, 2015, aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of the National Science Foundation-funded Arctic GEOTRACES, part of an international effort to study the distribution of trace elements in the world's oceans. ( Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Cory J. Mendenhall)

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