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Next on Ocean Encounters: Restless Seas

Join WHOI scientists for a discussion about how ocean currents shape weather, climate, and life. Airing Wednesday, Sept. 18 at 7:30 p.m. ET

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The team combined morphological analysis, CT-scanning, DNA sequencing, and microbiological studies to show that this isopod is physiologically and behaviorally adapted to use sargassum as a food source. (Photo credit: Daniel Hentz, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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Scientists aboard the Australian research vessel Aurora Australis studied the natural cycling of carbon and iron in the Southern Ocean in 2001. In this region, adding tiny amounts of iron can increase photosynthesis by marine phytoplankton, thus decreasing surface ocean carbon dioxide. (Photo by: Ken Buesseler, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Ben Santer. (Image at center courtesy of © Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Composite by Daniel Hentz).
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An unidentified coal schooner in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, one of the many shipwrecks threatened by marine debris. (Photo credit: Marine Imaging Technologies)
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