It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean. Long bright days and rising temperatures have awakened the phytoplankton.

UD doctoral student Tianyu Zhou is pictured on the right using a shovel to remove snow that covers the sea ice during a ...

“Arctic Station has been ... transfers water samples filled with phytoplankton and zooplankton harvested from his field site, a section of open ocean off the coast of Disko Island.

Phytoplankton are changing the “physical property ... A positive feedback process is already known to occur in the Arctic, as the darker-hued ocean water absorbs more sun than the lighter-colored ice.

In the vibrant yet fragile waters of the Gulf of Oman, spectacular phytoplankton blooms – visible even from space – unfold in ...

She wonders, too, whether Arctic phytoplankton’s ability to ride ... If she’s right, the zone of productive ocean may be deeper than anyone thought. “If polar phytoplankton were able to ...

For Arrigo and his team, it was also a rare opportunity to study the Arctic marine ecosystem firsthand ... had hit an unexpectedly large phytoplankton hotspot in the Chukchi Sea, just off the Bering ...

The two most prominent types of plankton in the ocean are zooplankton, which are tiny animal organisms, and phytoplankton, which are plantlike. (Other forms of plankton include bacterial and fungal.

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...

Most field research on ocean acidification has focused on mid- to high-latitude regions where diatoms, coccolithophores, and other large phytoplankton predominate. Limited data exists on ...

Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean, the body of water surrounding Antarctica, are under threat from climate change. The area's inhabitants, from whales to krill to phytoplankton, face changes such ...