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Tag: Eddies

The New Mollusk on the Block
Biodiversity Biological oceanography Climate Change Ecology

The New Mollusk on the Block

Have you ever wondered about how marine animals travel to a new place, you know, when they can’t swim there?…
February 18, 2021 Cierra Braga
How important is carbon export by ocean eddies?
Biogeochemistry Physical oceanography

How important is carbon export by ocean eddies?

A recent paper uses an ocean model to investigate the relative importance of carbon sequestration by eddies transporting phytoplankton into…
September 20, 2019 Channing Prend
Antarctic Eddies Suck Carbon from the Atmosphere
Biochemistry Climate Change Physical oceanography Remote Sensing

Antarctic Eddies Suck Carbon from the Atmosphere

A recent study from researchers at the University of Tasmania investigates the relationship between ocean eddies and phytoplankton growth in…
September 4, 2018 Channing Prend
A Swirling Sea of Plastic
Plastic Pollution

A Swirling Sea of Plastic

Check out this article detailing how currents and eddies in the ocean help determine plastic pollution distribution!
April 25, 2018April 26, 2018 Melanie Feen
Small scale, big effect
Book Review Modeling

Small scale, big effect

Processes in the ocean and climate happen at all sorts of size scales. New research out of NASA's Jet Propulsion…
February 28, 2018February 28, 2018 Eric Orenstein
Biogeochemistry

Ocean eddies suck carbon out of the atmosphere, thanks to plankton

When phytoplankton sink into the deep ocean, they take carbon with them, storing CO2 away from the atmosphere. This new…
October 21, 2015October 21, 2015 cael

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