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“Roll Tide!” v. “Go Dogs!” (well, Dogfish)? The College Football National Championship game between Alabama and Georgia is tonight!

January 8, 2018
Left: Currents shift with the tide in Kachemak Bay, Alaska. Right: These exotic looking creatures are Chain Dogfish, captured off the Northeastern U.S. coast.

Photo: L: Rita Larson / R: Lollie Garay

While collecting data in Kachemak Bay, which is located in Cook Inlet, we experienced a current shift during high tide, which was heavily emerged with glacial flour. Glacial flour is [a term for] clay-sized particles of rock, generated by glacial erosion. More than likely, the flour came from the Kenai Fjords Glaciers, which are located north of Homer, Alaska.
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