Nearly every summer, phytoplankton trace the sea’s currents, eddies, and flows.
Published Aug 19, 2020
Phytoplankton and blue-green algae blooms off of Scandinavia seem to be particularly intense this summer.
Published Jul 23, 2018
Freshened surface water and abundant nutrients lead to an explosion of algae in the inland sea.
Published May 31, 2015
This ISS photograph captures two great lagoons to the north and south of Kaliningrad, Russia: Vistula Lagoon and Kurshsky Bay.
Published Aug 22, 2011
The waters off of Australia hosted an apparent bloom of Trichodesmium, an ancient, important, and ubiquitous type of microscopic sea life.
Published Oct 7, 2017
This true-color image captures a Ross Sea phytoplankton bloom on January 22, 2011, as viewed by the MODIS instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite.
Published Jan 29, 2011
Acquired August 24, 2012, this natural-color image shows a profusion of peacock hues created by a phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea.
Published Sep 25, 2012
Phytoplankton are usually most abundant in this area when spring melting and runoff freshen the water and add nutrients just as sunlight is increasing.
Published May 8, 2018
Changing conditions in the waters near Alaska promotes late summer phytoplankton growth.
Published Sep 19, 2014
In July 2016, phytoplankton in the Barents Sea turned the surface waters milky blue.
Published Jul 6, 2016
The arrow-shaped island in the Aral Sea used to be a 35-kilometer-long visual marker, indicating the Aral Sea to astronauts. An image from the present International Space Station increment shows how much the coastline has changed as the sea level has dropped during the last three decades.
Published Aug 15, 2005
