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Tag: water sampling
Why does dissolved organic matter matter?
Deep sea dissolved organic matter (DOM) holds almost as much carbon as the atmosphere holds in the form of carbon dioxide.
The difference between …
Marine snow and super soakers at sea
You wouldn’t typically see a snow while at sea in the Caribbean but thats not necessarily the case under the ocean’s surface. Jacob Cram from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science came on this research cruise to investigate …
Bacteria and deep sea viruses, oh my!
The main lab on the ship is home to microbial ecologists from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) and the University of Delaware. The team’s processes rely heavily on each other …