We can find millions and millions of plankton in bodies of water all over the world – from oceans, rivers, and lakes to ponds and mud puddles. That’s what I found out from my friend Julie Zimmerman, a ...

There’s a big world waiting to be discovered. By exploring what’s in their backyard Santa Monica High School students learned the importance of ocean conservation and how math and science can be used ...

Plant plankton — some of it visible, some microscopic — help keep Earth cool. They take carbon dioxide — the key greenhouse gas — out of the air to keep the world from getting even warmer, Boyce said.

Melissa DuBose casts a net out into the sea on a crisp winter morning, from a wooden pier near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. “I come out here every week,” she says. She reels in her net to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A study of net plankton in Sardis Reservoir and tributaries was made from June 3 to August 11, 1953. Fifteen collecting stations were ...

It’s always been hard for me to believe that something so tiny can be the food source for something so big…like plankton to a whale. Baleen whales are the type of whales which rely on plankton and ...

Limnology and Oceanography (L&O;) publishes research articles, reviews, and comments about all aspects of limnology and oceanography. The journal’s unifying theme is the understanding of aquatic ...

A SELF-CLOSING plankton net has long been needed for horizontal towing. It is especially necessary for the investigation of the vertical distribution of pelagic organisms. Numerous attempts have ...

Using samples from an almost century-old, ongoing survey of marine plankton, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine suggest that rising levels of manmade chemicals found ...