WHOI in the News
Phytoplankton blooms see two-decade surge along world’s coastlines
Researching phytoplankton 2000 miles from shore aboard the R/V Atlantis
Don’t be fooled by phytoplankton’s microscopic size, the creature is among the most vital organisms for the ocean and planet’s survival.
How a Volcanic Eruption Set Off a Phytoplankton Bloom
Lava-driven nutrient fountains “could be a pretty important driver of phytoplankton ecology in the broader ocean,” said Harriet Alexander, a biological oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who was not involved in the latest study.
WHOI Scientists Studying Phytoplankton to Improve Satellite Operations in Space
WHOI Study Shows Warmer Waters Affecting Phytoplankton
mentions Heidi Sosik and WHOI
Researchers track effects of changing ocean temperature on phytoplankton
quotes Kristen Hunter-Cervera and Heidi Sosik
Changing Ocean Temperature Forces Phytoplanktons to Bloom 4 Weeks Earlier Than Usual
quotes Kristen Hunter-Cevera and mentions WHOI
‘Unprecedented’ Phytoplankton Bloom Closes Shellfish Beds In 3 States
mentions WHOI Guest Investigator Kate Hubbard
NASA Langley begins groundbreaking study of phytoplankton and climate
mentions WHOI
NASA Explores Impact of Climate Change on North Atlantic Phytoplankton
mentions WHOI
What are those phytoplankton up to? Genetics holds some clues
quotes Harriet Alexander and mentions WHOI
Research Cruise Pinpoints Phytoplankton’s Critical Role In Marine Phosphorus Cycle
quotes Ben Van Mooy
Bacterial Steroids: They Get ‘Pumped Up’ By CO2 From Dying Phytoplankton
mentions WHOI
Swirling currents deliver phytoplankton carbon to ocean depths
ran the WHOI news release featuring Amala Mahadevan’s work
Swirling Currents Deliver Phytoplankton Carbon to Ocean Depths
mentions Amala Mahadevan and WHOI
Swirling currents deliver phytoplankton carbon to ocean depths
uotes Amala Mahadevan
Warming Trends: Extracting Data From Pictures, Paying Attention to the ‘Twilight Zone,’ and Making Climate Change Movies With Edge
WHOI Named As NSF Science And Tech Center
“The basic idea is that we’re trying to understand the molecules and the microbes that are really important for transforming about a quarter of Earth’s photosynthetic carbon every year. That area, that particular pool of carbon, has been really hard to study because it turns over really fast, which means it’s produced and consumed in very short time periods. There’s not much of it at any one point in time, so we have had a very hard time analytically pulling it out of seawater, characterizing it, trying to understand which bacteria or phytoplankton or microbes, in general, are important for controlling it and so on.”