For over 25 years, SpongeBob and his motley crew of nautical pals have been the highlight of many a generation’s after-school ...

Focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in marine systems. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral ecosystem research program off the coast of California that ...

Planktons play a significant role in affecting the transformation and distribution of materials in aquatic ecosystems. Biological activities can be categorized into autotrophic (i.e., the formation of ...

Plankton are incredibly diverse and important beings, even though they are some of the smallest ones on earth. They are found in our water and air, and they greatly contribute to the food chain.

It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean. Long bright days and rising temperatures have awakened the phytoplankton.

Autonomous underwater robots give marine scientists the opportunity to study what happens during an algae bloom in both time and space. Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, May 2022: It's spring, the sun is ...

Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis aka PAM is a deadly brain-eating amoeba that spurts its head out of the infection with Naegleria fowleri. It thrives in warm freshwater lakes, rivers and ...

Here we assessed the global structure of plankton geography and its relation to the biological, chemical, and physical context of the ocean (the ‘seascape’) by analyzing metagenomes of plankton ...