Tag: phytoplankton

• Friday, October 9th 2015 - 08:04 UTC

  Scientists flock to Falklands for vital South Georgia future research strategy

  

  Fifteen scientists from institutes around the world gathered in the Falkland Islands this week to assess future scientific requirements for South Georgia. Project manager Dr Vicky Peck from the British Antarctic Survey based in Cambridge explained that the South Georgia Future Science project wanted to identify what the scientific needs of the island were and how they could best be facilitated.

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 19:23 UTC

  Extended blooming phytoplankton discovered under thinning Arctic ice cap

  

  Scientists have made a biological discovery in Arctic Ocean waters as dramatic and unexpected as finding a rainforest in the middle of a desert. A NASA-sponsored expedition punched through three-foot thick sea ice to find waters richer in microscopic marine plants, essential to all sea life, than any other ocean region on Earth.