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Stony Brook team studying oxygen depletion in Sound

With a clank and a whirring of gears, a metal frame loaded with water-sampling equipment swung out over the side of the R/V Seawolf, then slowly lowered into Long Island Sound.

The vessel, anchored near Execution Rocks about a mile off Sands Point, carried a team of Stony Brook University scientists intent on learning more about why oxygen levels in the western Sound plummet as the weather...

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