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Spring Bloom in New Zealand Waters
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Published October 28, 2009
A phytoplankton bloom colored the waters east of New Zealand on October 25, 2009.
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Phytoplankton Bloom in the Bering Sea
Published October 12, 2009
Acquired October 8, 2009, this true-color image shows peacock-hued splashes of color off the coast of Alaska, near St. Paul Island.
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Bloom in the Norwegian Sea
Published August 6, 2009
The brilliant shades of blue and green that fill the waters near the Norwegian shore in this photo-like image are likely phytoplankton.
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Plankton Bloom Surrounds Chatham Islands
Published November 20, 2008
On November 15, 2008, a bloom of plant-like organisms known as phytoplankton encircled the Chatham Islands.
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Storm-Churned waters off Cuba
Published September 2, 2008
Gustav may have spared the United States from the destruction that many feared, but it hit Cuba hard.
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Phytoplankton Bloom in the Barents Sea
Published August 19, 2008
Phytoplankton are tiny plant-like organisms that are the foundation of the ocean food web. Like plants, they contain chlorophyll and other pigments that they use to harvest sunlight for photosynthesis. In northern waters, these organisms are starved for sunlight much of the year, but during the summer months, they explode in colorful blooms such as this one.
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Algal Bloom Along the Coast of China
Published July 9, 2008
As Beijing prepared to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, the city of Qingdao, roughly 550 kilometers (340 miles) to the southeast, prepared its coastal waters for the games’ sailing competitions. With the games looming just weeks away, Chinese officials and residents of Qingdao (also known as Tsingtao) struggled with a stubborn adversary: algae.
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Phytoplankton surround the Falkland Islands
Published January 15, 2008
Millions of tiny, single-celled plant-like organisms ring the Falkland Islands in this photo-like image taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on January 13, 2008. These organisms, called phytoplankton, reflect light, coloring the ocean with whimsical swirls of blue and green.
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Phytoplankton off the Coast of Argentina
Published December 27, 2007
Iridescent shades of peacock blue and emerald green decorated the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina on December 24, 2007. Though hundreds of kilometers in length, these bright bands of color were formed by miniscule objects—tiny surface-dwelling ocean plants known as phytoplankton.
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Phytoplankton Bloom off Namibia
Published November 22, 2007
A flash of blue and green lit the waters off Namibia in early November 2007 as a phytoplankton bloom grew and faded in the Atlantic Ocean. The bloom stretches from north to south along hundreds of kilometers, though it is brightest in the center of this image. Such blooms are common in the coastal waters off southwest Africa where cold, nutrient-rich currents sweep north from Antarctica and interact with the coastal shelf. At the same time, the easterly trade winds push surface water away from the shore, allowing water from the ocean’s floor to rise to the surface, bringing with it iron and other material. The suffusion of nutrients from both the currents and upwelling water creates an environment where tiny surface-dwelling ocean plants (phytoplankton) thrive.
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Bloom in the Barents Sea
Published August 3, 2007
A break in the clouds provided a window to a brilliant display of color in the Barents Sea north off Norway on August 1, 2007. The bright aquamarine hues suggest that this is likely a coccolithophore bloom.
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Hydrogen Sulfide Eruption off Namibia
Published July 30, 2007
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