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Tag: gyres

SURFO Special: The Power of a Swirl
Physical oceanography Undergraduate Research

SURFO Special: The Power of a Swirl

What makes the Mid Atlantic Bight off the U.S. East Coast so unique? SURFO student Madeline Mamer spent this past…
October 3, 2020October 2, 2020 Nyla Husain
Life at One Hundred Million Years Old
Microbiology

Life at One Hundred Million Years Old

A team of scientists traveled to the South Pacific Gyre and discovered 100 million year old, energy-starved microorganisms hidden below…
August 14, 2020September 11, 2020 Amanda Semler
Biochemistry Biological oceanography Chemistry Climate Change Modeling

Eat Organic at Your Local Gyre Margin

Paper: Letscher, Robert T., et al. 2016. Nutrient budgets in the subtropical ocean gyres dominated by lateral transport. Nature Geoscience, v.9:…
December 1, 2016 Zoe Gentes
Biogeochemistry Chemistry

Waiter, there’s a whale in my soup: investigating the South Pacific garbage patch

Plastic debris has been found in both the North Pacific and North Atlantic since the early 1970s. It accumulates in…
November 6, 2013March 6, 2014 Zoe Ruge

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