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January 2, 2008
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Nalini Nadkarni hangs from her canopy access gear.
Nalini Nadkarni hangs from her canopy access gear, 150 feet above the forest floor in a 650-year-old stand of trees located just downwind of Mount St. Helens, in Washington State. She is studying organisms and processes that occur in the upper canopy of these forests.
Credit: John Huey, The Evergreen State College
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