Jul 26, 2021 · Seagrass meadows are plants adapted to live a completely submerged life in the salty shallows.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is the world's leading non-profit oceanographic research organization. Our mission is to explore and understand the ocean and to educate scientists, …

Aug 20, 2020 · Phytoplankton are primary producers of the ocean—the organisms that form the base of the food chain. WHOI explores the microscopic, single-celled organisms.

Feb 21, 2023 · Woods Hole, Mass. — When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020 with associated travel restrictions, Matthew Long thought his students could shift their overseas research …

Dec 11, 2019 · Coastal ecosystems also capture and store massive amounts of carbon in both plants and sediments for centuries or longer. Together, the plants and soils in tidal salt …

Nutrient versus consumer control of community structure in a Chesapeake Bay eelgrass habitat. Marine Ecology Progress Series 348: 71-83. E.A. Canuel, A.C. Spivak, E.J. Waterson, and …

Ocean plants are critical to marine life—they are an important food source, they provide oxygen to surrounding marine life, and they supply refuge and nursery grounds.

Jul 14, 2020 · Jellyfish and other zooplankton are animals that live all or part of their life suspended and drifting in fresh or salt water, rarely come in contact with hard surfaces.

Apr 23, 2007 · The narrow region where land and ocean meet is among the most dynamic and complex collection of physical and biological systems on Earth. These can include seagrass …

Jun 3, 2021 · Marine microplastics are small fragments of plastic debris that are less than five millimeters long. Some microplastics, known as primary microplastics, are “micro” by design.