Tag: "deep ocean"

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Bacterial Carbon Fixation in Dark Ocean Depths

  By Henry Workman Marine Science Today Writer The biological process of carbon fixation plays indispensable roles at the primary level of ecosystems and in the world’s carbonic cycle.  Where there is sufficient sunlight to drive photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert CO2 into sugars and expel O2 as waste, energy passed through food [...]

Humbold squid washed ashore - Wikipedia

Is the Predatory Jumbo Squid Migrating North?

The Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project announced in late September that two dozen jumbo, or Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) were recently tagged off Grays Harbor, WA. Stanford, NOAA and WDFW colleagues acoustically tagged these immense squid for the first time ever.