Microscopic ocean phytoplankton feed a “biological pump” that carries carbon from the surface to deep waters. Scientists have found that this process stores much more carbon than previously thought.
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The Deepwater Horizon oil disaster catalyzed a decade of research on oil contamination in the Gulf of Mexico, from surface waters to the seabed, with surprising findings.
Protecting forests and wetlands, which absorb and store carbon, is one way to slow climate change. Scientists are proposing similar treatment for marine animals that help store carbon in the oceans.
But should we care if the extreme marine frontier is not clean?
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, scientists are researching how much oil dropped to sea floor, hitchhiking via ‘marine snow.’
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Founding Professor of the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research centre, The University of Western Australia
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Research Oceanographer, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Associate Professor of Marine Biology, University of Alaska Southeast
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Downtown Partnership-Peter Betzer Endowed Chair in Biological Oceanography, University of South Florida
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Assistant Director, C-IMAGE Consortium, University of South Florida
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Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution