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Water color, phytoplankton growth in Gulf of Maine are changing
2016-04-22 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Dr. William "Barney" Balch's team at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has been sampling the waters of the Gulf of Maine regularly over the same transect for the last 18 years as part of a NASA-funded study. Working with scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, Dr. Thomas Huntington and Dr. George Aiken, Balch reported in a recent paper an overall reduction in productivity in the Gulf of Maine. The researchers found that the amount of dissolved organic carbon from rivers emptying into the...
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