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Tag: plankton

Lighting up the Polar Night
Biological oceanography

Lighting up the Polar Night

The northern lights aren't the only natural phenomenon lighting up the night in the Polar North.
January 13, 2022January 12, 2022 Ashley Mickens
A plankTON of heat: How do copepods respond to temperature and warming oceans?
Climate Change

A plankTON of heat: How do copepods respond to temperature and warming oceans?

Is climate change causing problems for those tiny crustaceans?
November 22, 2021November 22, 2021 Hannah Collins
Studying tiny ocean organisms on a large scale: How do we make sure we have accurate, useful data?
Undergraduate Research

Studying tiny ocean organisms on a large scale: How do we make sure we have accurate, useful data?

Studying phytoplankton across the Northeast U.S. Shelf is much more accessible with continuous chlorophyll-a data, but the data may need…
August 28, 2021August 30, 2021 Megan Chen
Lights out: How the aquatic food web is responding to coastal darkening in the North Sea
Climate Change Coastal Management Human impacts

Lights out: How the aquatic food web is responding to coastal darkening in the North Sea

Have you ever been on a plane, flying over the coast, and noticed a stream of brown-colored water draining from…
June 25, 2021June 28, 2021 Cindy Lebrasse, Ph.D.
Shedding new light: insights into earth’s largest mass migration event
Biological oceanography

Shedding new light: insights into earth’s largest mass migration event

Researchers based out of Florida use new methods to show that plankton may be a bigger contributor to the world’s…
May 10, 2021July 7, 2021 Gabrielle Stedman
Let them eat plastic – Animals eating microplastic could choke the ocean
Plastic Pollution

Let them eat plastic – Animals eating microplastic could choke the ocean

Plastic pollution may bring to mind big images - dead birds, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and beaches filled with…
April 30, 2021 Kristin Huizenga
Scientists set sail to survey the ocean’s plankton diversity
Ecology

Scientists set sail to survey the ocean’s plankton diversity

If you gaze into the ocean, or a lake or stream, you may be surprised at the abundance and variety…
January 28, 2021January 29, 2021 Katherine Barrett
Growing a Scientist: Undergraduate Research 2018, part 2
Biological oceanography

Growing a Scientist: Undergraduate Research 2018, part 2

Check out these posts by guest authors Anna Ward, Cassandra Alexander, Lauren Cook, and Sarah Paulson about microzooplankton, harmful algae…
August 24, 2018August 27, 2018 Anna Robuck
Biology Human impacts Plastic Pollution

Plankton are eating plastic!

Zooplankton, the tiny animals that make up the base of marine food webs, are ingesting microplastics. Given the widespread abundance…
November 28, 2015 Sean Anderson
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
Biology Climate Change Glaciers Sea-level Rise

Feeling the heat: how do plankton respond to glacial melting?

The current, and sometimes rapid melting of glaciers and ice sheets is a direct consequence of climate change. Glacial melting…
August 27, 2015 Sean Anderson
Chemistry

Tiny ocean creatures play a big role in the global fate of toxic pollutants

Scientists on the “biggest ever expedition on global change” studied the tiniest creatures in the ocean to learn about their…
July 31, 2015July 31, 2015 Carrie McDonough
Biology Evolution

The ‘Eyes’ Have It: Co-option of organelles led to the evolution of dinoflagellate eyes

The evolution of eyes has been the subject of debate for many years. Recent studies on a group of rare…
July 10, 2015 Irvin Huang
Biology

Yee-haw! This jellyfish-riding lobster has special appendages to keep clean and be carried on

By riding jellyfish, this lobster larvae can travel the high seas, and have easy access to a convenient snack. But…
February 18, 2015February 18, 2015 Megan Chen

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