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Spring Color in the North Sea
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Spring Color in the North Sea

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

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Phytoplankton Bloom in North Sea off Scotland
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Phytoplankton Bloom in North Sea off Scotland

The northern and western highlands of Scotland were still winter-brown and even dusted with snow in places, but the waters of the North Sea were blooming with phytoplankton on May 8, 2008, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the region and captured this image. The tiny, plant-like organisms swirled in the waters off the country’s east coast, coloring the shallow coastal waters shades of bright blue and green.

Published May 13, 2008

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Bloom in the Barents Sea
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Bloom in the Barents Sea

MODIS caught a clear view of an explosion of phytoplankton—a rare treat since the Barents Sea is cloud-covered roughly 80 percent of the summer.

Published Aug 18, 2011

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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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Iceland’s Waters Abloom
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Iceland’s Waters Abloom

July 2019 brought the latest display of a phytoplankton bloom that occurs every year in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Published Jul 15, 2019

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The North Sea Abloom
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The North Sea Abloom

Early summer water conditions provide fertile territory for phytoplankton blooms.

Published Jul 5, 2015

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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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Blooming Waters off Argentina
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Blooming Waters off Argentina

At the intersection of two ocean current systems off of Argentina, phytoplankton growth explodes in a spring 2011 bloom.

Published Nov 16, 2011

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Bloom in the Norwegian Sea
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Bloom in the Norwegian Sea

The brilliant shades of blue and green that fill the waters near the Norwegian shore in this photo-like image are likely phytoplankton.

Published Aug 6, 2009

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Summer Bloom in the Argentine Sea
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Summer Bloom in the Argentine Sea

The milky green and blue phytoplankton developed where warmer, saltier coastal waters from the subtropics meet colder, fresher waters flowing from the south.

Published Dec 23, 2018

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