Biological oceanography
Lighting up the Polar Night
The northern lights aren't the only natural phenomenon lighting up the night in the Polar North.
Tag: plankton
Climate Change
A plankTON of heat: How do copepods respond to temperature and warming oceans?
Is climate change causing problems for those tiny crustaceans?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…