Visiting researchers build on decades of plankton and sediment studies and easy access at ASU BIOS

New study finds nighttime peaks in bacterial activity and carbon cycling in the ocean

Built on decades of partnership, BATS continues to advance understanding of ocean change

Scientists are studying how winds, currents, and climate change influence the drift of the Portuguese man o' war in an effort to forecast its seasonal movements

Field researchers share insights at annual PACE meeting, strengthening global efforts to monitor ocean health and climate change

Collaborative efforts send profiler to work in the mesopelagic zones of the Atlantic Ocean

The exhibit explores the exquisite beauty of plankton and its crucial role not only in ocean ecosystems, but in how ocean health is critical to our survival and elemental to all life on our planet.

A diverse and abundant group of single-celled marine organisms, Rhizaria are known to affect carbon and other chemical cycles of the world’s oceans, but specifics are lacking. Research has been hampered by difficulties sampling, culturing and preserving many types of this protist super-group, and they have been underrepresented in models of global geochemical cycling as a result. Researchers and partners from two U.S. universities are seeking to change that narrative through a new three-year National Science Foundation-funded study.

Typically associated with the study of Earth’s upper atmosphere and beyond, satellites deployed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) also augment our understanding of Earth’s ecosystems, including critical information about the ocean such as locations of algal blooms and levels of marine photosynthesis.

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