Posts Tagged ‘phytoplankton’

A green ocean

January 8th, 2010 by Ari Daniel Shapiro | Filed in Ocean Gazing Podcast
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What color would you paint the oceans on our planet? Blue? Try green. At least that’s what a NASA satellite 450 miles above our heads is telling us to do.

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Dungeons and Darwins

August 8th, 2009 by Ari Daniel Shapiro | Filed in Ocean Gazing Podcast
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Sometimes understanding the vastness of the ocean means understanding the wee strands of DNA packed into the tiniest of cells, and how that DNA gives those cells some very special abilities.

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Seeing the small: Heidi Sosik and Rob Olson on their underwater camera

February 20th, 2009 by Ari Daniel Shapiro | Filed in Ocean Gazing Podcast
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Heidi Sosik and Rob Olson describe how a shared frustration led them to develop a special underwater camera that takes pictures of tiny cells in the ocean. It has revolutionized how the ecology of the ocean is studied.

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