Thanks to a new algorithm, researchers at the AWI can now use satellite data to determine in which parts of the ocean certain types of phytoplankton are dominant. In addition, they can identify toxic ...

Their effort involved looking at the total amount of both types of phytoplankton measured in the North Atlantic Ocean every year for the past six decades. They found that the levels of the two types ...

Phytoplankton use sunlight to make energy and nearly half the oxygen we breathe, a new tool improves our ability to measure how individual phytoplankton cells are using energy ROCKVILLE, MD – ...

The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Observatory inside the Space Environment Simulator thermal vacuum chamber before thermal environmental testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

URI researchers say that in the last 50 years, levels of phytoplankton – tiny plants that are the foundation of the marine food chain – are down by 50% in Narragansett Bay. Through photosynthesis, ...