Biological oceanography Ecology
When cells started snacking
Algae rose, protists gorged, and the modern ocean was born.
Tag: sediment
Biogeochemistry
Deep seafloor microbes are active at extreme temperatures
Researchers have discovered bacteria that redefine the temperature limit for sediment life.
Chemistry
A New Way to Make Hydrocarbons
Marine scientists used isotopic fingerprinting techniques to discover a new way that the hydrocarbons in oil and gas are formed.
deep sea
Oil and Gas Seeps: Microbial Elevators through Ocean Sediments
Many microorganisms live in ocean sediments – both at the seafloor, as well as in the subsurface hundreds to thousands…
Climate Change
New insights into old events using marine sediment
We talk a lot about what the ocean is doing, but what can it tell us about land? Here, we…
Biogeochemistry Microbiology
Methane on the dinner menu
Bacteria in coastal waters can eat methane, a greenhouse gas - but just how much and how fast can they…
Coastal Management Pollution
Nineteen years later: The clean-up of Boston Harbor’s waste water
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority spent ten years from 1991 and 2000 drastically improving the treatment of waste water released…
Climate Change Geology Paleoceanography
Reconstructing climate history from sediments in the Gulf of Taranto, Italy
What was the climate like in Southern Italy 10,000 years ago? This question and many more can be answered by…