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Bookmark or Share- Twilight Zone - Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionAnimals in the twilight zone help support the ocean’s food web and transport huge amounts of carbon from surface waters into the deep ocean, helping to regulate global climate. So far, the twilight zone is largely unexplored and its rich biodiversity has remained mostly beyond the reach of commercial fishing—and the international laws that ...
- Larval dispersal in the marine environment - Woods Hole Oceanographic ...Larval dispersal in the marine environment Meyer-Kaiser 1 Larval dispersal in the marine environment Written by Dr. Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Key vocabulary Benthic: Living on the seafloor Pelagic: Living in the water column Invertebrate: An animal without a backbone. In the marine environment, this includes
- Sea Life Is Accumulating Pathogens - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution“Marine animals interact with each other as predators, scavengers, and through the shared use of marine and beach environments,” they wrote. “Our results indicate that marine mammals, fish, and seabirds may not only suffer as victims of disease from zoonotic pathogens, but also act as vectors, moving these human pathogens to different ...
- How Is Fukushima’s Fallout Affecting Marine Life?Fisher, a marine biogeochemist at Stony Brook University, has spent 35 years studying the fate of metals and radioisotopes in marine organisms, including radioisotopes associated with nuclear waste. He and members of his lab participated in the research cruise led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution marine geochemist Ken Buesseler off the ...
- Shedding Light on Light in the Ocean - Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionLight in the ocean is like light in no other place on Earth. It is a world that is visibly different from our familiar terrestrial world, and one that marine animals, plants, and microbes are adapted to in extraordinary ways. Light behaves very differently when it moves from air into…
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