A spectacular burst of color visible from space is drawing global attention—not for its beauty, but for the warning it ...

Though phytoplankton give the Hudson River a potentially unappealing greenish color, their presence indicates a healthy ...

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

Clean and safe lake water is an important part of the Finnish identity. In recent decades, interest in the condition of lake ...

Winter brought a colder and icier season to the Great Lakes, especially Lake Erie, which saw a near-complete ice cover in ...

The ecology and biogeochemistry of Earth depend heavily on marine phytoplankton. Satellite ocean color data that allow for the estimation of chlorophyll-a (Chla), a frequently used proxy for ...

Wieland, and M. Stramska. 2003.Determination of spectral absorption coefficients of particles, dissolved materials and phytoplankton for discrete water samples, in: Ocean Optics Protocols For ...

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.

But different phytoplankton have unique ways of scattering and absorbing light. PACE measures the whole spectrum of visible color and slightly beyond, from ultraviolet to near infrared ...

Field sampling and in situ nutrient enrichment bioassays were conducted to determine seasonal patterns of nutrient limitation and nutrient thresholds for phytoplankton growth. The TN: TP and TDN: TDP ...