School of Marine Science researchers based at the DMC, Mary Jane Perry, Ivona Cetinić and Nathan Briggs, are part of a team of researchers studying the North Atlantic Spring Bloom. Their most recent discovery is a mechanism–eddies–by which particulate organic carbon (phytoplankton) from the surface waters are pumped deep into the ocean. Their discovery was
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