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PML scientists investigating in the Arctic
Several PML scientists were on board the UK Natural Environment Research Council research ship RRS James Clark Ross, as it departed Tromsø in Norway to embark on a scientific expedition to the Barents Sea in the Arctic. The ship will take the scientists on board right up to the ice edge, so they can study the important processes that take place there.
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