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Phytoplankton Bloom off New Jersey
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Phytoplankton Bloom off New Jersey

A bloom large enough to be visible from space shows up off the coast of New Jersey.

Published Jul 10, 2016

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Summer Blooms in the Baltic and Barents
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Summer Blooms in the Baltic and Barents

Phytoplankton and blue-green algae blooms off of Scandinavia seem to be particularly intense this summer.

Published Jul 23, 2018

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Norwegian Fjord Turns Turquoise
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Norwegian Fjord Turns Turquoise

In May 2020, a vivid phytoplankton bloom colored the surface waters of the country’s second-longest fjord.

Published Jun 10, 2020

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Blooms off Both North American Coasts
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Blooms off Both North American Coasts

Phytoplankton explosions off the east and west coasts of the United States have both benign and harmful impacts.

Published Aug 9, 2015

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Swirls in the Waters off France
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Swirls in the Waters off France

An ongoing phytoplankton bloom has painted the sea surface in jewel tones.

Published May 12, 2013

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Phytoplankton Bloom off the Pacific Northwest
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Phytoplankton Bloom off the Pacific Northwest

Upwelling currents and summer weather promoted a large bloom of floating, microscopic plants off the coast of Oregon and Washington.

Published Jul 31, 2014

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Phytoplankton Blooms off the Falkland Islands
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Phytoplankton Blooms off the Falkland Islands

The swirling greens and blues are densely concentrated, microscopic plants growing on the surface of the ocean.

Published Dec 3, 2015

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Blooms in the Caspian Sea
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Blooms in the Caspian Sea

Several phytoplankton blooms swirled in the waters of the Caspian Sea.

Published Aug 9, 2017

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Persistent Phytoplankton
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Persistent Phytoplankton

The waters off of Newfoundland were colored by coccolithophore blooms for two months.

Published Sep 21, 2020

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Phytoplankton in the Tasman Sea
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Phytoplankton in the Tasman Sea

Phytoplankton require sunlight, water, and nutrients to grow.

Published Nov 18, 2016

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Bloom in the Gulf of Aden
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Bloom in the Gulf of Aden

Phytoplankton blooms tend to show up in this Gulf in mid-summer and mid-autumn, but they can happen in winter too.

Published Apr 2, 2018

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Dueling Blooms
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Dueling Blooms

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

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Bloom in the Bering Sea
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Bloom in the Bering Sea

Changing conditions in the waters near Alaska promotes late summer phytoplankton growth.

Published Sep 19, 2014

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Bloomin’ Black Sea
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Bloomin’ Black Sea

Phytoplankton color the water with a burst of spring growth.

Published May 19, 2012

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Bloom in the Parent Stream
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Bloom in the Parent Stream

Fueled by the Oyashio current, the waters off of northeastern Japan support a bounty of phytoplankton and fishes.

Published Jun 4, 2019

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Spring Greening Around Hokkaido
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Spring Greening Around Hokkaido

Seasonal blooms of phytoplankton off Japan are provoked by nutrient rich currents in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

Published Apr 10, 2013

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