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More Than Half the World’s Ocean Surface Is Getting Greener

by Meghie Rodrigues 22 August 202317 June 2025

Advances in data analysis help researchers spot shifting ocean colors, which could be associated with climate change.

Diagram from the paper.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Pulses of Coastal Upwelling Generate Phytoplankton

by Takeyoshi Nagai 8 May 20235 May 2023

Phytoplankton patches at an ocean front in the California Current System are found to originate from different coastal upwelling pulses.

Satellite imagery shows Tropical Cyclone Oma in white hovering over the South Pacific in blue, leaving a phytoplankton bloom in its wake.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Tropical Cyclone Triggered Record Algal Bloom in the South Pacific

by Kirsten Steinke 2 May 20232 May 2023

In 2019, Tropical Cyclone Oma hovered over the Coral Sea in the South Pacific, leaving a massive algae bloom in its wake.

Satellite view of a swirling green bloom of phytoplankton set in the dark blue ocean.
Posted inScience Updates

Carbon In, Carbon Out: Balancing the Ocean’s Books

by Ryan Vandermeulen 27 April 202325 January 2024

Scientists have developed a consensus guide of standard protocols for how best to measure oceanic primary productivity, a key component in Earth’s carbon cycle.

View through a microscope of yellow spheres and white shapes with thin lines
Posted inNews

Marine Life May Be Headed to Higher Latitudes

by Mackenzie White 19 April 202319 April 2023

Researchers tracked plankton through a changing climate over 8 million years. Now, that knowledge is helping scientists understand the coming effects of warming oceans.

Researchers deploying an ARGO float.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Bio-Argo Floats Reveal Phytoplankton Increase at Ocean Fronts

by Takeyoshi Nagai 20 March 202320 March 2023

Bio-Argo floats and satellite altimeter data reveal that upwelling caused by confluent flow on the warm side of ocean fronts increases phytoplankton carbon and chlorophyll.

一个穿着潜水衣的人涉水穿过水下的樽海鞘群。
Posted inResearch Spotlights

喷气推进的被囊动物在海洋碳循环中的作用

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 17 February 202322 February 2023

新研究表明,广泛分布的胶质浮游动物的大量繁殖,连同它们的粪便、每日的垂直迁移和它们的尸体一起,增加了海洋的碳输出。

A person in a wetsuit wades through an underwater cloud of salps.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Jet-Propelled Tunicates Pump Carbon Through the Oceans

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 19 January 202317 February 2023

New research reveals that blooms of the widespread gelatinous zooplankton—along with their feces, daily vertical migrations, and carcasses—increase marine carbon export.

R/V Mirai makes its way across Arctic sea ice.
Posted inNews

The Bottom of the Arctic Is Blooming

by Fanni Daniella Szakal 14 November 202217 November 2022

Researchers found phytoplankton hidden on the Arctic seafloor, hinting at a cascade of effects on the local ecology and carbon cycle.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Respiration Quotient Variability and Ocean Oxygen Levels

by Eileen Hofmann 1 November 20221 November 2022

Respiration quotients in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans reflect different water temperature, nutrient stress and phytoplankton community structure, important for regional carbon and oxygen cycling.

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