For microscopic organisms, ocean currents act as ‘expressway’ to deeper depths, study finds

Credit: Amala Mahadevan ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Lead author, Mara Freilich, along with scientist, Simon Ruiz, collecting water from Niskin bottles that were used to sample different depths of the ocean beneath the research vessel, SOCIB, during the first expedition from Mallorca when Freilich was a graduate student at Woods Hole/MIT.

« For microscopic organisms, ocean currents act as ‘expressway’ to deeper depths, study finds

An autonomous underwater glider is deployed from the research vessel SOCIB by Spanish collaborators. The glider collects measurements of salinity, temperature, oxygen, and chlorophyll, while repeatedly moving up and down through the ocean over several hundred meters and traversing laterally as directed. Such measurements help to detect underwater features such as those described in the article.

« For microscopic organisms, ocean currents act as ‘expressway’ to deeper depths, study finds

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