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Acid loving algae? How ocean acidification may contribute to harmful algal blooms
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Acid loving algae? How ocean acidification may contribute to harmful algal blooms

Climate change isn't just changing temperatures–climate change is changing the pH of our ocean, with big impacts on marine food webs!

Losing coral reefs will cost us more money
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Losing coral reefs will cost us more money

Coral reefs are extremely important ecosystems.

Sea ice modifies biological processes
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Sea ice modifies biological processes

A recent study investigates the relationship between sea ice variability and phytoplankton growth in climate models.

When life gives you global warming, make pancake ice in ocean wave models
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When life gives you global warming, make pancake ice in ocean wave models

Sea ice is retreating, the Arctic is opening up, and wave activity is increasing. What does this mean for the ocean and atmosphere? The refreezing season of autumn may have some answers.
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Turn up the heat, turn down the productivity
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Turn up the heat, turn down the productivity

Global climate models predict a decline in ocean net primary production. This is the difference between the amount of carbon dioxide that phytoplankton take in to photosynthesize and the amount that is released by the phytoplankton during metabolism.

Bite or flight: How seaweed can shape feeding behavior in fish
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Bite or flight: How seaweed can shape feeding behavior in fish

Entire ecosystems are made possible by the living flora that define them; they provide shelter and hunting grounds for the animals which live in them. But what happens when the building blocks of these ecosystems are replaced or changed?

Predicted change to the Southern Ocean Silicate Front
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Predicted change to the Southern Ocean Silicate Front

The Southern Ocean Silicate Front (SF) is an important boundary separating waters that are silicate-rich and waters that are silicate-poor.

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