A research cruise, a disaster and some quick thinking result in novel measurements of phytoplankton
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When other nutrients are scarce, giant kelp use a different form of dissolved nitrogen to grow -
Phytoplankton play an important role in governing elements contributing to the Earth’s ocean carbon cycle -
Nothing dies of old age in the ocean. Everything gets eaten and all that remains of anything is waste. But that waste is pure gold to oceanographer David Siegel, director of the Earth Research Institute at UC Santa Barbara.
