Tagged: coccolithophore

Bloomin’ marvellous - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Dec 11, 2010 •

• carbon,
• Climate Science,
• coccolithophore,
• NASA,
• nz,
• ocean

A stunning image of a massive bloom of phytoplankton off the Chatham Islands (to the east of NZ — that’s Wellington and the Wairarapa in the top left corner), snapped by NASA’s Aqua satellite on December 5th and featured this week at NASA’s excellent Earth Observatory. Click on the image to see the full (4MB) [...] … Read More

You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone - Hot Topic

Bryan Walker • May 01, 2010 •

• Biodiversity,
• bryan walker,
• Climate Science,
• coccolithophore,
• coral,
• Novacek,
• phenology

Biodiversity continues its steady decline. A team of scientists have this week published a study in Science confirming that fact.  Governments in 2002 at a summit on the Convention on Biological Diversity agreed to aim to halt biodiversity loss by the year 2010. When experts meet in Nairobi on May 10 it will be to [...] … Read More