Like a collision at sea, leaving valuable data in the trunk of a rental car can ruin your entire day. Having it mistaken for an explosive device and soaked down by the bomb squad makes it worse. When the data is five month's worth of your post-doctoral research results, that pretty much puts the situation up in there in Worst-Day-Ever territory. That was the situation facing Dr. Anne Jefferson, a hydrologist in the Department of Geosciences at Oregon State University, who'd been collecting water temperature data using underwater data loggers from stream channels along the Mississippi River.
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