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Phytoplankton -- such as this colony of chaetoceros socialis -- naturally give off fluorescent light as they dissipate excess solar energy that they cannot consume through photosynthesis - Credit: Maria Vernet, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

New Satellite Data Shows Ocean Plants Health

A study funded by NASA allowed researchers to conduct the first global analysis of the health and productivity of ocean plants.

Jun 03, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
Nathalie Goodkin and WHOI Engineer Peter Landry with a Bermuda brain coral that has been sliced for analysis. (Photo by Anne Cohen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Brain Coral Record Helps Correlate Human Warming Effects with Atmospheric Instability Phenomenon

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researchers recently used a Bahamas brain coral to reconstruct a 218-year-long temperature record showing the long-term behavior of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), a large-scale atmospheric pressure variation.  The scientists believe that the resulting knowledge of the past behavior of the NAO in response to global temperature changes can help predict [...]

Jan 16, 2009 | 0 comments View Post