The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captured a significant algae bloom around the Falkland Islands in 2023, underscoring the role of ocean currents in supporting marine ecosystems…
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Satellite image of splotches of blue and green swirling through surface waters of South Australia’s Bonney Coast on January 10, 2024. Cool, upwelling water supports…
A study by the University of Washington, analyzing an 800-year-old ice core, suggests that phytoplankton populations in the North Atlantic have remained stable since the…
Satellite image of Norway’s Bear Island acquired on July 13, 2023, by Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite shows Von Kármán vortices in…
Researchers have uncovered evidence that vast phytoplankton blooms may be lurking beneath Antarctic ice. Scientists using NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…
Southern Right Whales in the Great Australian Bight. Credit: Dr. Kerstin Bilgmann A new twist in marine upwellings at a well-known feeding ground Oceanographers have…
Researchers from Stanford University, UC Santa Cruz and Duke University investigate a humpback whale by boat and drone in the surface waters near the Western…
A conductivity, temperature, and depth sensor, or CTD, lowers into the Sargasso Sea. Researchers used the instrument to collect phytoplankton, a foundation of ocean health,…
May 18, 2021 A May phytoplankton bloom left its mark on Mid-Atlantic waters. Given adequate sunlight and nutrients, phytoplankton populations can multiply into blooms large…
The map shows the mean production for the year 2008 across the Laurentian Great Lakes region. Lake production values are scaled from low (blue) to…
January 5, 2021 In spring and summer, conditions are often just right for populations of the plant-like organisms explode into enormous blooms. The Goldilocks zone…
August 15, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view. See image below for detail view.) Nearly every summer, colorful blooms of phytoplankton flourish in the Baltic…
July 26, 2020. (Click image for full view.) Each summer, parts of the Arctic Ocean and peripheral seas lose their ice cover and bathe in…
A phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea turned surface waters a milky blue in July 2016. Credit: Jeff Schmaltz and Joshua Stevens, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response,…
Green algae blooms swirling around the Baltic Sea as seen from space via the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed…
Study finds Earth’s oceans contain just the right amount of iron; adding more may not improve their ability to absorb carbon dioxide. Historically, the oceans…
Kīlauea lava entry site on the southeast coastline of Hawaiʻi Island. Credit: Karin Bjorkman, SOEST When Kīlauea Volcano erupted in 2018, it injected millions of…