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Isabela Le Bras, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, stands near a flotation sphere for a Line W mooring during a cruise to maintain the observatory. She is investigating why waters may be leaving the Deep Water Boundary Current in the region off Newfoundland. (Photo courtesy of Jinbo Wang, Scripps Institution of Oceanography)