SAGINAW BAY University of Michigan biogeochemist Casey Godwin raises a football-size chunk of crystal-clear Great Lakes ice toward the sky and studies it like a miner inspecting a precious gemstone just pulled from the earth.
Godwin's team snowmobiled 5 miles from the shore of Lake Huron's Sagina
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