Underwater gliders provide documentation of aggregate flux event during North Atlantic phytoplankton bloom
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 10:01
in Earth & Climate
Using the latest in optical sensor technology, marine scientists from the University of Maine and the University of Washington have achieved unprecedented documentation of a critical phenomenon that occurs during the spring phytoplankton blooms in the North Atlantic that feeds the deep ocean and contributes to carbon dioxide sequestering.