Ships, airplanes, and satellites all play a role in monitoring Chesapeake water quality, algae blooms, and dead zones.
Published Nov 2, 2016
The dynamic colors of ocean phytoplankton blooms reflect a host of dynamic relationships occurring below the water line.
Published Jan 9, 2015
In May 2020, a vivid phytoplankton bloom colored the surface waters of the country’s second-longest fjord.
Published Jun 10, 2020
A bloom large enough to be visible from space shows up off the coast of New Jersey.
Published Jul 10, 2016
Acquired August 9, 2010, this natural-color image shows peacock-blue swirls in the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Newfoundland.
Published Aug 11, 2010
The waters off of Newfoundland were colored by coccolithophore blooms for two months.
Published Sep 21, 2020
A colorful image of the Arabian Sea shows the various types of activities occurring in the waters.
Published Dec 27, 2018
The green color associated with phytoplankton around Greenland is not uniformly distributed, nor are the patterns random.
Published Oct 4, 2016
Phytoplankton and blue-green algae blooms off of Scandinavia seem to be particularly intense this summer.
Published Jul 23, 2018
Scientists show that a virus was responsible for the collapse of a large coccolithophore bloom in the North Atlantic.
Published Nov 26, 2014
The waters around Newfoundland have been teeming with phytoplankton since the beginning of September.
Published Sep 23, 2019
Fueled by the Oyashio current, the waters off of northeastern Japan support a bounty of phytoplankton and fishes.
Published Jun 4, 2019
Ocean plants color the water of the Great Australian Bight off the shore of Victoria, Australia, in this photo-like Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image, taken by NASA’s Terra satellite on January 11, 2007.
Published Jan 17, 2007
Phytoplankton explosions off the east and west coasts of the United States have both benign and harmful impacts.
Published Aug 9, 2015
In March 2017, phytoplankton bloomed off the coast of Tunisia.
Published Mar 25, 2017
Unusually clear skies and persistent, unseasonable heat may have set the stage for large and persistent blooms of phytoplankton in the waters around England.
Published Jun 26, 2020
Southeast of Hokkaido, where two ocean currents converge, swirls of phytoplankton color the Pacific green and blue.
Published Jun 11, 2009
Changing conditions in the waters near Alaska promotes late summer phytoplankton growth.
Published Sep 19, 2014
The tiny, plant-like organisms thrive on iron that seeps into the ocean.
Published May 7, 2017
In early September, ocean scientists noticed something swirling in the waters off the coast of the Brazilian state of São Paulo.
Published Sep 10, 2017Image of the Day Water Human Presence Remote Sensing Water Color
Satellite imagers captured the transition from one blooming phytoplankton genus to another in the Barents Sea in the summer of 2014.
Published Aug 10, 2014
