Researchers and engineers have developed and tested an innovative new system for sampling small planktonic larvae in coastal ocean waters and understanding their distribution. Traditionally, pumps and ...

Coccolithophores--tiny calcifying plants that are part of the foundation of the marine food web--have been increasing in relative abundance in the North Atlantic over the last 45 years, as carbon ...

When Chris Melrose began his career at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center's Narragansett Laboratory, little did he realize where his work studying primary productivity and dissolved oxygen would ...

Understanding plankton is essential to studying how ocean life is sustained. tonaquatic/iStock This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ...

A new study used log books from 60 years of plankton research to document the increase in the amount of plastic in the ocean. The study’s authors tabulated the entanglements of the continuous plankton ...